Class calendar - weekly updates!
| Week | Date | Reading assignment | Lecture 1 (Tuesday) | Lecture 2 (Thursday) | Homeworks and solutions | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8/27 | 1; 2.1-2.4;2.9;2.10 | Introductions, pictures, Analog x Digital | Logic gates: the beginning. | HW1 | |
| 2 | 9/3 | 2.5-2.8 (except 2.5.1); 4.1-4.5 | Boolean Algebra (article on Boole and Shannon) | Karnaugh maps | HW2 | HW1sol |
| 3 | 9/10 | 4.3-4.7;5.1;5.6 | Karnaugh maps & design | Number systems | HW3 (provided by Jan Heindel! thanks!) | HW2sol |
| 4 | 9/17 | 5.2-5.3;5.7.3;5.8 | Computer Arithmetic | Codes and Design | HW4 | HW3sol |
| 5 | 9/24 | 5.4-5.7 | Adders | Carry Lookahead | HW5 | HW4sol |
| 6 | 10/1 | 6.1-6.7 | Mux/Demux, encoders, decoders | Combinational Circuits | HW6 | HW5sol |
| 7 | 10/8 | Review-everything! | No class today! | Pre-midterm review | EXAMple | HW6sol |
| 8 | 10/15 | items 9.6 | Midterm | Hazards | Midterm Solutions | |
| 9 | 10/22 | chapter 3; page 914 (TTL) | Logic gates with Mosfets | TTL, fanout (the transparencies I showed in class are here) | hW7 | hw7 sol |
| 10 | 10/29 | still chapter 3 | CMOS interfacing, power dissipation | Propag.delay, worst case analysis | hw8 | hw8sol |
| 11 | 11/5 | ch.3 (end), ch. 7 (beginning) | PAL,FPGAs, CPLD, LUTs | Flip-flops | hw9 | hw9sol |
| 12 | 11/12 | ch. 7 (Tuesday) | Registers |
State machine analysis | hw10 (XTR probls) |
hw10sol XTR sol |
| 13 | 11/19 | chapter 8. | State machine design (Mealy, Moore) | Turkey day. | hw11 | hw11sol |
| 14 | 11/26 | still ch 8 (last part) | Mealy machines and state minimization |
State minimization, design examples. Senior design projects tomorrow! |
hw12 | hw12sol |
| 15 | 12/3 | chapter 9. Check the Links site. | Asynch x synch - FSM examples | Final exam review. Read the Roboant BEFORE coming to class. Install and play with that FSM, it's cool. | Grand Challenge | |
| 16 | 12/10 | all chapters! | Grand Challenge is due today at 5pm. I leave my office at 5:05pm. | Final exam. Please come to the usual classroom (Robinson B201) at 4:30. Exam goes to 7:15. | ||