ECE 291 Public Projects

Primary Developers

• Peter Johnson
• Michael Urman

Projects

• Documentation
  Rewrite and update of major course documentation in DocBook-based SGML format.
  • Generation of both HTML and PDF output from a single source document
  • Generation tools work both on Windows and UNIX
  • Lab manual primary component, but other tutorials and even lectures are supported


• PModeLib
  Protected mode library to make programming assembly in protected mode easier.
  • Full source code included
  • Assumes DJGPP compiler platform and DPMI runtime environment
  • High-resolution graphics and TCP/IP networking via the EX291 driver
  • 16-bit sound routines via Soundblaster or VDMS driver


• EX291
  Extra BIOS Services for ECE 291 driver for Windows 2000/XP.
  • Access to Win32-provided features from Windows 2000/XP DOS emulator
  • Uses DirectDraw to provide high-resolution VBE/AF graphics driver
  • Uses Windows Sockets to provide TCP/IP networking services


• "CV32" Debugger
  An integrated or easier to use debugger to assist ECE 291 students in producing quality assembly programs throughout the transition from real to protected mode programming.
  • Source level debugging (esp. in protected mode)
  • Improved user interface (esp. in protected mode)
  • Same user interface (as much as possible) in both real and protected mode

Source Code Repositories (via GitHub)

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