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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

313690 (v.1) Microcomputers 204

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Area: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Fortnightly
Laboratory: 1 x 3 Hours Fortnightly
Prerequisite(s): 308768 (v.1) Foundations of Digital Design 201 or any previous version
Syllabus: The von Neumann architecture. Instruction sets and memory maps. Some common microcomputer families. Organisation of simple processor, memory and input/output (I/O) systems. Assembly level programming, programming techniques. Development Environments Introduction to event-driven structures. Interfacing concepts. Some peripheral and system busses. Implementation methods for microcomputers. Introduction to High level programming for embedded systems using C language.
Field of Education: 031305 Computer Engineering
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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