Educational guide 2020_21 School of Engineering

Bachelor's Degree in Computer engineering (2010)

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1 Introduction	1.1 Overview of the NDS system
2 Internal organization of a programable system	2.1 Components of a computer 2.2 Bus access regulation (Chip Select) 2.3 Memory address controller 2.4 Reflected memory zones 2.5 Access to input/output registers
3 Internal organization of the NDS platform	3.1 Interconnection of main components 3.2 Memory maps and input/output registers 3.3 Example of an input/output controller: buttons
4 NDS screens controllers	4.0 Introduction to computer graphics (2D) 4.1 Interconnection of graphic components 4.2 Graphic background modes 4.3 Banks of Video-RAM 4.4 Frame Buffer mode 4.5 Background control registers 4.6 Text backgrounds 4.7 Rotation/Scale backgrounds 4.8 Moving graphical objects (sprites)
5 Input/Output synchronization	5.1 Necessity for I/O synchronization 5.2 Synchronization by polling 5.3 Synchronization by interruptions 5.4 Interrupt controller 5.5 Management of interrupt service routines (ISR) 5.6 Syncrhonization by timed interruptions
6 Processes of Input/Output transfers	6.1 Transfers through CPU 6.2 Transfers through DMA (Direct Memory Access) 6.3 The DMA controller 6.4 Examples of DMA transfers
7 NDS Sound controller	7.1 Basic features 7.2 Playing sampled sound 7.3 Polifonic sound and frequency variation 7.4 Access to the sound controller hardware
8 Communication between ARM9 and ARM7 processors	8.1 Necessity for communication between processors 8.2 Synchronization through IPCSYNC 8.3 Example of synchronization 8.4 Information transfer through IPCFIFO 8.5 Example of transfer

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