The EB-154 is a single board, comprehensive instructional module designed to teach advanced concepts of microprocessors to technology students.

The module can be operated as a stand-alone unit or integrated to the EB-2000 Computer Managed Laboratory.

Objectives

• Identify the different microcomputer bus signals and their functions

• Identify the control hardware connected to the microcomputer

• Analyze the bus activity of a microcomputer

• Interface an 8253 Programmable Interval Timer to an 8051 microcomputer system

• Generate digital waveforms

• Program the timing of a one-shot circuit

• Use digital signals to trigger a counter

• Use of basic input/output devices

• Understand communication between input/output ports

• Generate strobed input/outputs

• Analyze "real world" signals

• Interface analog signals to a microprocessor

• Convert analog inputs to digital values

• Convert digital values to analog signals

• Examine RS-232 signals

• Understand asynchronous communications

• Use a transmitter - receiver interface

• Link a microcomputer to a P.C.

• Use different peripherals in a system

• Analyze the function of a complex system

• Connect a controller and its peripherals to a computer

Recommended Experiments

1. Microcomputer signals

2. Programmable Timers

3. Peripheral Interfaces

4. "Real world" signals.

5. Communication Interfaces

6. Integration of Peripheral Devices