Lecture Outline for Spring 2000

1. Friday 1/21

   • Introduction to PC Hardware
     • Introduction to the PC Parallel Port
     • Read Pages 927-941 of Messmer.
   • Introduction to the DJGPP C compiler
     • Compile the program hello.c as discussed in Getting Started with the DJGPP Compiler

2. Friday 1/28

   • Introduction to the Intel 80386 Microprocessor
     • Real (8086) Mode
     • Protected (32 bit) Mode
     • Pages 32-105 of Messmer.
   • Introduction to interrupts on the 8086 and 80386 microprocessors
     • Interrupt routine using DJGPP compiler
     • Information on interrupt handling using DJGPP can be found in the DJGPP User's Guide and the DJGPP FAQ
     • Information on library functions (such as _go32_dpmi_chain_protected_mode_interrupt_vector) is available in the info subdirectory of the djgpp directory. It is also available on the Web

3. Friday 2/4

   • Interrupts on the 80386
     • The 8259 Programmable Interrupt Controller (PIC)
     • Interrupt Vectors on the 80386
     • Pages 659-677 of Messmer.

4. Friday 2/11

   • Introduction to the ISA bus

5. Friday 2/18

   • Generating interrupts on the ISA bus using an Altera chip
   • Figures
     • Block diagram of an Altera chip which can generate an interrupt on the ISA bus
   • DMA on the ISA Bus
   • Figures
     • Description of Direct Memory Access (DMA) concept
     • Setup for and event sequence of DMA
     • Two ways to talk to an IO port -- normal access and DMA access
   
   

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   Bill Rison, <rison@ee.nmt.edu >