CEG2400 Microcomputer Systems, updated on 4 Feb.2009
Prof. Kin Hong Wong, Course description : Microcomputer system organization: bus architecture, signals and timing, memory systems. Input/output interfacing methods: polling, interrupt, direct memory access. Assembly language programming: addressing modes, data manipulation and control flow instructions, programme linkage, parameter passing, macros. Peripheral device interfacing and device driver development. Prerequisite: ERG2020    

Course tutors:   Leung Man Chuen  and Ko Hoi Fung

Honesty in Academic work

Laboratory time table/ sheets	Mid-term-exam
Lecture notes and tutorials	1st term class list (passwd required)
Marking scheme and exams
References	Usefull links

Lecture notes and tutorials

CEG2400 ARM Instruction quick reference.doc

• Teaching videos (youtube user : cucselab)
• ARM information
  
• FAQ on assembly language programming (beta)
• Arm instruction set,
  
•  RealView Assembler User's Guide
  
• Assembler reference
  
• Directives
• ARM and Thumb Instructions
  

1. Intoroduction
2. Memory ,   **read this free download book (ARM Assembly Language Programming. Peter Knaggs)
3. Assembly language programming
4. Driving parallel loads
   
5. Hardware initialization and programming examples
6. Higher Level Constructs
   
7. Exceptions and Interrupts,        Arm_circuits and codes (contains ciruits, ARMdemo06.c)
   
8. Timer and external interrupts    EintDemo.c
9. Periperherals  ARMdemo06.c(old)    ARMdemo09.c(for the new 2009 PCB)
10. Pulse width modulation (PWM) for motors
    
11. Feedback control of motors  (PIDRobotDemo093.c)

• Part 1: Laboratory quizzes and assignments 50%
• Part 2: Final exam 50%
• A student must gain at least 40% of the full marks in each part in order to pass the course.

•   Major references (will also be useful in other courses, e.g. CEG3430), should be available at our campus book shop.
• ARM system-on-chip architecture, by Steve Furber, second Edition , published by Addison Wesley. ISBN-10: 0201675196 ISBN-13: 978-0201675191
  
• ARM System Developer's Guide , Hrdbound, ISBN-10: 1558608745 ISBN-13: 978-1558608740 704 pages, publication date: 2004, Imprint: MORGAN KAUFFMAN, Elsevier
  
• High-Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic by Howard W. Johnson and Martin Graham Prentice Hall; around US$20 dollars at the CU bookshop.
• Assembly Language Programming. Peter Knaggs (free download)
  
• Web based references
• Arm processor
  
• ARM main site
  
• ARMv7-M Architecture Documentation
• nxp application notes
• Assembly Language
• instructions
• keil
• arm instructions
• Quick finder: ARM instruction set quick finder at heyrick.co.uk
• tutorial
• Whirlwind Tour of ARM Assembly
  
• projects
• an example of micromouse design
  
• arm_projects
  
• Other reference
• High Speed Signal Propagation: Advanced Black Magic  Howard W. Johnson Prentice Hall 2003 (An extension of the above reference including many advanced topics)
• http://www.arduino.cc/
  

Useful links: There are some useful links related to the courseArm7 :

•  WONG's hardware links
• Arm7 developers/manufacturers