Microprocessors

Course description

On completion of the course, the student understands the structure and operating principles of a conventional (CISC) microprocessor. The student knows how the CISC and RISC architectures differ and understands the importance of registers, instruction set and addressing modes.

The student will be capable of writing simple assembler programs and will be well-prepared to learn low level programming (e.g. device drivers) in assembler and C languages.

Contents

• basic CPU structure
• machine language and instruction set
• data types
• storage of data in memory
• addressing modes
• interruptsprinciples of assembler programming
• CISC vs RISC and load/store architecture
• Intel 8086 and 80186 (or similar) microprocessor
• Basic ideas of other processor architectures

Prerequisites

None

Assessment criteria

Course includes

• exercises
• final test to get
• grading is Approved/Fail

Course way of working and time table

Course is 100% online and doesn’t include official Timetable. So, timetable is totally up to Student her-/himself.

Course enrolment info

• Course is 100% online self-study course.
• You can enroll this course whenever it’s suitable for you and start it at once you have enrolled it.
• Course can be done in own pace.
• Credits will be putted into our Student register as soon as student has done this course.