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An Application Of A Single Chip Slave Microcomputer As An Intelligent Interface, Thomas J. Riordan
An Application Of A Single Chip Slave Microcomputer As An Intelligent Interface, Thomas J. Riordan
Retrospective Theses and Dissertations
This thesis describes the operation of an intelligent controller existing between a computer system and a peripheral. The intelligent controller is implemented with an INTEL universal peripheral interface, UPI-41, single chip slave microcomputer. The interfaces between the controller and the computer system, and the controller and the peripheral are described in detail, as are the firmware and internal facilities of the controller itself. An evaluation of system operation is presented and, finally, the organizational philosophy of the system is discussed. Located within the appendices are a system schematic and listing of the controller program.
Microcomputers: An Alternative For Digital Controllers, Richard Brooke Wavell
Microcomputers: An Alternative For Digital Controllers, Richard Brooke Wavell
Retrospective Theses and Dissertations
Two candidate microprocessors are selected to demonstrate that microprocessors can be effectively utilized in digital control applications. The Intel 8085A-2 is selected to represent 8-bit microprocessors and the Intel 8086 is selected to represent 16-bit. A baseline second order digital filter algorithm is developed for comparison of the performance of the two microprocessors for both software and hardware multiply implementations. Emulation techniques are utilized to facilitate performance comparison, without large investments in software and hardware development. In addition, they provide a method for evaluating new microprocessors, before hardware becomes available. The emulations are then used to verify and to determine …