| Date |
Weekday |
Lecture Topic |
Preparatory Work |
| 14-Jan-19 |
Monday |
Course introduction; digital signals, representing data with digital signals; two's complement numbers |
Read ch. 1 |
| 16-Jan-19 |
Wednesday |
Digital system design; Moore's law and digital systems; combinatorial logic; boolean algebra; truth tables |
Read ch. 2 ~ 3 |
| 18-Jan-19 |
Friday |
Project 1 overview |
None |
| 21-Jan-19 |
Monday |
noclasses |
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| 23-Jan-19 |
Wednesday |
Guest lecture: Python tutorial, part 1 |
Bring laptop to class, check one out from library if needed |
| 28-Jan-19 |
Monday |
Guest lecture: Python tutorial, part 2 |
Bring laptop to class, check one out from library if needed |
| 30-Jan-19 |
Wednesday |
Logic gates; CMOS transistors and logic circuits; converting between logic equations and diagrams; converting to NAND and NOR circuits; delay and power of CMOS circuits |
Read ch. 4 ~ 5 |
| 4-Feb-19 |
Monday |
Project 2 overview |
None |
| 6-Feb-19 |
Wednesday |
Combinatorial logic design; Karnaugh Maps (K-maps) |
Read ch. 6 |
| 11-Feb-19 |
Monday |
Combinatorial logic design; Quine-McCluskey method |
None |
| 13-Feb-19 |
Wednesday |
Combinatorial building blocks; applying K-maps and Quine-McClskey |
Read ch. 8 ~ 9 |
| 18-Feb-19 |
Monday |
REVIEW for Exam 1 |
None |
| 20-Feb-19 |
Wednesday |
Sequential logic; storing bits; latches, flip-flops and registers; finite state machines (FSM) introduction |
Read ch. 14 |
| 25-Feb-19 |
Monday |
Project 3 overview |
None |
| 27-Feb-19 |
Wednesday |
Finite state machines (FSMs); Moore and Mealy FSMs; state diagrams; implementing FSMs with flip-flops |
None |
| 4-Mar-19 |
Monday |
Implementing flip-flops using other flip-flops |
None |
| 6-Mar-19 |
Wednesday |
Timing constraints of sequential and combinatorial circuits; clock skew; metastability |
Read ch. 15 |
| 11-Mar-19 |
Monday |
recess |
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| 13-Mar-19 |
Wednesday |
recess |
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| 18-Mar-19 |
Monday |
recess |
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| 20-Mar-19 |
Wednesday |
recess |
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| 25-Mar-19 |
Monday |
Project 4 overview |
None |
| 27-Mar-19 |
Wednesday |
Sequentical logic examples; factoring FSMs |
Read ch. 16 ~ 17, 19 |
| 1-Apr-19 |
Monday |
REVIEW for Exam 2 |
None |
| 3-Apr-19 |
Wednesday |
Arithmetic circuits; full adder; carry look-ahead adder; parallel prefix adder |
Read ch. 10, 12 |
| 8-Apr-19 |
Monday |
Arithmetic circuits; multipler; Karatsuba multiplier |
None |
| 10-Apr-19 |
Wednesday |
Arithmetic circuits; fixed- and floating-point arithmetic |
Read ch. 11, 13 |
| 15-Apr-19 |
Monday |
Project 5 overview |
None |
| 17-Apr-19 |
Wednesday |
Designing a computer processor; ALU; interconnect; data storage and memory systems |
Optionally read ch. 24 ~ 25 |
| 22-Apr-19 |
Monday |
Asynchronous logic |
Optionally read ch. 26 ~ 29 |
| 24-Apr-19 |
Wednesday |
REVIEW for Final Exam |
None |