Interdisciplinary projects in teaching “Microprocessor Systems”

Author

Bencheva, Nina ; Kostadinov, Nikolay ; Ruseva, Yoana

Author_Institution

Telecommun. Dept., Rousse Univ., Rousse, Bulgaria

fYear

2009

fDate

22-24 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The article considers enhancing the teaching of the subject ldquoMicroprocessor Systemsrdquo by a two-aspect study of stack memory. On one hand, the MPLAB development environment and the corresponding PICDEM PLUS2 development board of Microchip are used to examine the stack of the PIC18F452 microcontroller. On the other hand, the VHDL high level specification language and the WebPack ISE development environment of Xilinx are used to design a stack on the basis of a programmable logic device. The project is implemented and tested in the XC2-XL development board including XC2C256 CPLD from the CoolRunner-II family. A topic is chosen that illustrates part of multidirectional interdisciplinary connections.

Keywords

computer based training; educational courses; electronic engineering computing; electronic engineering education; hardware description languages; microcontrollers; programmable logic devices; teaching; CoolRunner-II family; MPLAB development environment; PIC18F452 microcontroller; PICDEM PLUS2; VHDL; WebPack ISE development environment; XC2-XL development board; XC2C256 CPLD; Xilinx; high level specification language; interdisciplinary projects; microprocessor systems; multidirectional interdisciplinary connections; programmable logic device; stack memory; teaching; Algorithms; Education; Hardware; Microcontrollers; Microprocessors; Programmable logic devices; Random access memory; Specification languages; Telecommunication computing; Watches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

EAEEIE Annual Conference, 2009

Conference_Location

Valencia

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5385-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5386-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EAEEIE.2009.5335473

Filename

5335473