Microprocessor and Microcomputer Systems - Microcomputer Interface and Peripheral Devices Lab

This lab is used for Microprocessor and Microcomputer Systems to introduce theoretical concepts of 8-bit and 16-bit microprocessors including microprocessor architecture, memory organization, instruction set, input/output organization, and interrupts. Design of microcomputer systems, address maps, system bus, memory maps, peripheral I/O, memory mapped I/O, interrupt-driven I/O, interface devices, and general-purpose programmable peripheral devices.

It is also used for the Microcomputer Interface and Peripheral Devices course, which has a practical part which uses the PIC Micro-controller to conduct some experiments that interface with some input and output peripherals. The course covers the topics: bus buffering, memory interfacing, interrupt handling, keyboard and display interfacing, floppy drive controller interfacing, direct memory access (DMA) controller interfacing, Microprocessor-supporting chips: Clock Generator and Driver, Bus Controller, USART, PPI, PIC, and DMA Controller, PCI architecture and programming, configuration space model, SCSI protocol and drivers, USB architecture and data flow models, Microprocessor-based systems.