EE 352 Overview

Instructor:

• Bill Rison
• Workman 211
• Office Hours: MW 1-2, Th 10-11
• 835-5486
• rison@nmt.edu
• http://www.ee.nmt.edu/~rison/ee352_fall01

Texts:

• The Indispensable PC Hardware Book, 3rd edition by Hans-Peter Messmer, Addison-Wesley, 1997.
• A book on C for the PC, such as C: The Complete Reference, 3rd edition by Herbert Schildt, Osborne-McGraw Hill, 1995.
• Interfacing to the IBM Personal Computer, 2nd edition by Lewis Eggebrecht, SAMS, 1990 (on reserve in the Library).

Lectures:

• The lectures are Friday from 2:00 - 4:00 PM in Workman 109.

Labs:

• There is no formal lab associated with the course. You will be required to do several lab projects on your own.

General Outline (Tentative):

• Introduction to the Intel 80386 Family of Microprocessors
• Introduction to the C Programming Language and the DJGPP C Compiler
• Using C to Interact with PC Hardware
• The PC ISA Bus Hardware and Timing
• Design of a PC Interface Card
• Interacting with the MS-DOS Operating System
• Using Interrupts on the PC
• Direct Memory Access (DMA) on the PC

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