Overview
Microcomputers represent a total change in designing systems. Both industrial and academic institutions are active in the development and search for new applications for microcomputers. This lab is using "multi tech" MDA-Win8086 Microcomputers as part of one semester laboratory class on microcomputers, MDA-Win8086.
In this lab, students will be able to learn the fundamentals of microcomputers, from basic CPU instructions to practical applications. The first part of this lab is an introduction to the basic concepts of microcomputer programming. The second part of this lab is the microcomputer hardware, such as, input/output, interrupt, timer and counter experiment, and experiments using microcomputer instructions, such as, data transfers, arithmetic and logic operations, jump and subroutine and memory address allocation in simple program.
There are various experiments in this lab which are designed to familiarize the student with the fundamentals of input/output programming. These programs are centered around the keyboard and display. These experiments establish the foundation for later experiments involving a simple monitor program, which leads to more complicated MDA-Win8086 programs. More experiments using external kits to be connected and controlled by MDA-Win8086, like:
