1. Digital Interfacing :
Programmable parallel ports & Handshake I/O, Interfacing a microprocessor to Keyboards, to Alphanumeric displays, to High power devices, Optical Shaft encoders.
2. Analog Interfacing and Industrial Control :
D/A converter operation, interfacing and applications, A/D converter types, specifications and interfacing, A Microcomputer based Scale, A Microcomputer based
Industrial Process Control system, An 8086 based Process control system, Developing of prototype of a Microcomputer based Instruments.
3. Multiple Microprocessor systems & buses :
The 8086 Maximum mode, DMA data transfer, Interfacing & Refreshing DRAMs, Processors with integrated peripherals like 80186 & 80188, A co-processor - 8087 maths coprocessor, Multiple Bus Microcomputer systems.
4. Microcomputer system peripherals :
Microcomputer Displays, Raster scan CRT displays, terminals, color graphics, Vector scan displays, LCD
displays, Computer vision, Mass data storage systems, Floppy disk, Hard disk & Optical disk storage, Printer mechanism, Speech Synthesis & Recognition with a computer.
5. Data Communication & networks :
Asynchronous serial data communication, Serial data transmission methods and standards, Synchronous serial data communication & protocols, LAN.
6. Operating systems, the 80286 microprocessor :
Operating system concepts and terms, UNIX operating system, INTEL RMX 86TM Operating system, 80286 microprocessor.
* Books :
1. Microprocessors & Interfacing - Programming & Hardware by
D.V. Hall (Tata McGraw Hill)
2. The 8086 Book by Rector Russel & George Alexy (Osborne - McGraw Hill)
3. IBM PC Assembly Language and Programming by Peter Abel (PHI)
