Organization of a Microcomputer: Design and operation of Interface between Computer and the outside world; Sensors, transducers and signal conditioning, Interfacing Memory, and 1/0 Devices such as monitors, printers, disk drives and some other smart interface cards; IEEE488 and other buses and interfacing Scientific Instruments. Study of Microcomputer’s Chips, Microprocessor Peripheral Chips. Application to peripheral subsystems-PPI, PIC, DMAC, PCI etc. Interfacing Data Converters, general-purpose programmable peripheral devices, serial I/O and data communication.