Conclusion and Acknowledgments |
We started off by installing the Software Development Systems 68K and PowerPC Version 6.5 simulation toolkits in order to perform the task
C <- [A] + [B]
We finished off multi-tasking the operation of a virtual device with the sorting of a numerical array. Quite a jump.
I hope you have enjoyed working through the exercises in this " Short Laboratory Companion". If you would to see the work expanded to become the "Full Laboratory Companion" with additional virtual devices, please contact Eric Munson at McGraw-Hill and tell him that you enjoyed the "Web Page" concept of my Short Companion. Copy the letter to me.
If you have suggestions, please contact myself at smith@enel.ucalgary.ca. I will attempt to respond via a FAQ link in the McGraw-Hill section of my home page. No guarantees at speed of response as I am a fully operating instructor with 130 students in my 3rd year microprocessor course at the University of Calgary.
I would like to thank my wife, Pat, and my daughter, Lizie, for their patience during the long hours I spent developing the virtual devices and, then, the Laboratory Companion.
I was very pleased to meet, electronically, Mark Bracey, formally with SDS. It was he, excellent salesman that he is, who attempted to first sell me a class set of the full SDS software and then told me about the demo kit. I'd like to thank Geoff Revill, SDS U.K. for his help and ideas, and Jim Challenger of SDS US for permission to place the demo kits on the Web.
It was during a "tongue-in-cheek" article about my encounter with Mark in Circuit Cellar Ink magazine that I sent a virtual telegram to Bill Gates of Microsoft and ended up the recipient of a large donation of Microsoft software for use in my class.
Part of that donation was the Microsoft web development software FrontPage without which I would not have been able to follow through on the suggestions of the V in HVZ, Zvonko Vranesic, on various aspects of the Laboratory Companion. We did not always see eye-to-eye all the time, but the final result was worth it.
I would also like to thank Janice Marinelli, technical editor of CCI magazine, for her assistance in the gentle rewriting of my articles for that magazine. Many of my ideas matured from crazy to 'just wild' while I was developing those articles.
Finally, I wish to acknowledge the enthusiasm of the students in my ENEL415, ENEL511 and ENEL515 microprocessor courses at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada over the last 15 years. Without their willingness to try out some of my "youthfully abandoned" suggestions (I'm still only 0x32) with AMD and Motorola microprocessors, I would never had had the interest to try out all the fun things I get to do as part of my job. (Did I every tell you about the time I had the whole class "nodding their heads" in order to scan the LED lights from a microprocessor driven 1-line TV across their retina?)
Thanks to you all.
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