Microprocessor Applications

Catalog description

(Formerly A PHY 353) This course describes applications of microprocessors to data collection and process control. Topics include the capabilities of typical microprocessors and the techniques used to interface them to external devices, input/output programming, use of the data and address busses, interrupt handling, direct memory access, and data communications; characteristics of peripheral devices such as keyboards, printers, A/D and D/A converters, sensors, and actuators. Only one version of A PHY 353/453/553 may be taken for credit. Prerequisite(s): I CSI/I ECE 201. An elementary knowledge of electricity is helpful.