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Microprocessors and Interfacing - COMP2121
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Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
 
 
School:  School of Computer Science and Engineering
 
 
Course Outline: www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs2121
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 5
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: COMP1921 or COMP1927
 
 
Excluded: COMP2821, ELEC2041
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), Floating point number representation, computer arithmetic, assembly and machine language programming, machine language fundamentals; addressing modes; instruction repertoire, assembly language programming methodology, interrupts and I/O interfacing (hardware and software), serial communication, timers, analog input and output, converting analog signals to digital signals (data acquisition), taking input from a variety of sensors and driving actuators, buses and memory system, low level device drivers.

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