EECS 373: References and Handouts

Course Materials

• The course pack v0.2 available as a pdf document and is very incomplete. It is my hope to exand on this somewhat during the course of the semester.
• Slides from this semester:
  • Class Intro and Assembly (ppt) (pdf)
  • Bus Basics (ppt) (pdf)
  • Serial communication (ppt) (pdf) (brief notes)
  • Memories (ppt) (pdf)
  • EABI (ppt) (pdf)
  • Interrupts (1/2) (ppt) (pdf)
  • Interrupts(2/2) (ppt) (pdf)
  • Review (ppt)
  • A2D converstion (ppt) (pdf)
  • Error correction: No slides.

• The MPC823 User Manual will be loaned to you during your first day in lab. This is mainly a lab reference, but will be used extensively in class also. An on-line version of the White book also exists.
• There are also old lecture slides. The course pack is roughly based off of these notes.

  lec1.pdf, lec2.pdf, lec3.pdf, lec4.pdf, lec5.pdf, lec6.pdf

  lec7.pdf, lec8.pdf, lec9.pdf, lec10.pdf, lec11.pdf, lec12.pdf

• There are a number of books you may purchase which you might find useful:
  • Embedded System Design, Steve Heath, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997. ISBN 0-7506-3237-2.
  • PowerPC Programming Pocket Book, Steve Heath, Butterworth-Heineman, 1995. ISBN 0-7506-2111-7.

Lab materials

Misc. documents

• Xilinx Macro Library and SDS Demonstration software.
• MPC823 Electrical & Timing Specifications
• EABI

Material from the "green book"

• PowerPC Microprocessor Family: The Programming Environments... (This is the whole book!)
• Summary of integer instructions from Chapter 4
• Summary of load and store instructions from Chapter 4
• Summary of branch instructions from Chapter 4
• Appendix F, "Simplified Mnemonics"
• Excerpts from Chapter 6 on interrupts

Data sheets for other devices:

• Hitachi 64k SRAM – 8k x 8 bits
• National Semiconductor DAC0830 Digital-to-Analog Converter
• National Semiconductor ADC0808 Analog-to-Digital Converter

EECS 373 Lab-Board Schematics

• Overall organization
• Basic I/O devices
• Off-board expansion
• Xilinx download controller
• Connectors (1)
• Connectors (2)