EE 352 - Objectives

The objective of EE 352 is to have the student design and build an interface card for the IBM Personal Computer, and to program that card in the C language.

To accomplish this, the student will:

• Learn about the Intel 80386 family of microprocessors.
• Learn about the PC ISA (Industry Standard Architecture) bus.
• Learn basic C language programming, especially topics relevant to talking with computer hardware.
• Learn enough about the computer hardware and the MS-DOS operating system to be able to use interrupts and direct memory access on the PC.

This will be a project-driven course. A tentative outline of the projects will be as follows:

1. Learn to use the DJGPP C compiler under the DOS operating system.
2. Learn to communicate with the PC parallel port using the DJGPP compiler.
3. Write an interrupt-driven data-transfer program for the PC parallel port.
4. Design and simulate a PC bus interface using and Altera 7032.
5. Design and build a PC-bus interface to do parallel data transfers (similar to the standard PC parallel port).
6. Design and build a PC-bus interface card to perform a more complicated function. Possible functions are A/D or D/A conversion, event timing, or other function agreed to by the instructor.