Laboratory 6 will be the final project in the EECS 388 laboratory. Students have the option to choose their own project for this laboratory. If you elect to take this option then please tell your project idea to the laboratory TA before you begin. This will allow the TA to determine if your project is of the appropriate difficulty. If you do not wish to come up with your own idea then you can do the project described below.

In laboratory 5 you will be creating a simple, interrupt-based system-on-chipⁱ design. You will be instantiating three GPIOⁱ devices in your system-on-chipⁱ design and will write software which will respond to interrupts generated by those GPIOⁱ devices. The software that you write for this laboratory will be a mixture of high-level C code and low-level assembly. Additionally, you will make use of some Xilinxⁱ provided low-level interrupt routines.

In laboratory 4 you will be using your system-on-chipⁱ design from laboratory 3. In laboratory 3 you were required to write a C program which encrypted 64-bit data blocks using the OPB BlowFish hardware which was provided to you. In this laboratory you will be rewriting your C program in Microblaze assembly. Like in laboratory 3, at the end of this laboratory you should have a system-on-chipⁱ design which is capable of encrypting and decrypting 64-bit data blocks with a 128-bit encryption key. The encryption and decryption itself is performed by the hardware.

In laboratory 3 you will design a system-on-chipⁱ which includes one Microblaze soft-processorⁱ, several IP cores, and an OPB bus which connects all of the components in the system. Like the previous laboratories, you will be using the Xilinxⁱ BSB wizard to create a basic hardware design for your system. Unlike previous laboratories, however, you will be modifying the basic design by adding a custom peripheral. This custom peripheral, which will be provided for you, performs 128-bit encryption and decryption using the Blowfish algorithm.

In laboratory 2 you will design a system-on-chipⁱ which includes one Microblaze soft-processorⁱ and several General Purpose I/O peripherals (GPIOs). Just like laboratory 1, the system-on-chipⁱ will be created using the Base System Builder supplied by the Xilinxⁱ tool suite. Once your system-on-chipⁱ has been created, you will write a custom software application to take input from the push button and produce output on the LEDs.

In laboratory 1 you will design a system-on-chipⁱ using the Xilinxⁱ development suite and targeted at the XUPⁱ development board. Your design will contain a MicroBlazeⁱ soft-processorⁱ, a serial port, and three GPIOⁱ devices. The processor will be connected to the serial port and GPIOⁱ peripherals in a shared-bus architecture. You will then program this system-on-chipⁱ, using the C programming language, to print out your name five times to the screen of a desktop computer which is connected to the XUPⁱ development board using the serial port.

Welcome to EECS 388: Computer Systems and Assembly Language. In this class you will learn how computer systems are constructed and how to program those computer systems using assembly language. Learning will focus on internal microprocessor organization, programming in assembly language, performing input and output, and controlling external devices. The interaction of these four basic computing elements is at the core of effective embedded system design and is important knowledge in general purpose computing as well.