In each week, the same instructor will lecture in both lecture sections. Incomplete slides will usually be posted in Mallard 24 hours in advance; you may print these slides and take them to lectures. After each lecture, completed slides will be posted in Mallard within 24 hours. You will occasionally complete assessments that will provide data to evaluate the effectiveness of the instruction. In discussion sections, you will collaborate to solve technical problems, under the supervision of an ECE 290 instructor or teaching assistant.
| Week | Date | Lecture | Topic |
Web-Quizzes due pm |
ProblemSets and Lab |
Projects |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | M Aug 26 | 1 | Course overview; codes, parity, distance | |||
| W Aug 28 | 2 | Preliminary assessment; number representations | ||||
| R Aug 29 | Binary and hexadecimal conversions, arithmetic, Hamming code | |||||
| 2 | M Sep 2 | LABOR DAY (no classes) | ||||
| W Sep 4 | 3 | Gates, XOR, combinational circuit, Boolean functions, truth table | Week #1 | Hwk #1 | ||
| R Sep 5 | Boolean translation exercises | Lab #1 | ||||
| 3 | M Sep 9 | 4 | Boolean algebra, duality, SOP, POS | |||
| W Sep 11 | 5 | Minterms, maxterms, canonical forms, Karnaugh maps | Week #2 | Hwk #2 | ||
| R Sep 12 | Boolean proof exercises | |||||
| 4 | M Sep 16 | 6 | Prime implicants, minimal SOP, minimal POS | |||
| W Sep 18 | 7 | Don't-cares; NAND, NOR | Week #3 | Hwk #3 | ||
| R Sep 26 | Two's-complement exercises | Lab #2 | ||||
| 5 | M Sep 23 | 8 | Two's-complement representation, overflow | |||
| W Sep 25 | 9 | Full adder, ripple-carry adder, delays, carry-lookahead | Week #4 | Hwk #4 | ||
| R Sep 26 | Two's-complement exercises | Lab #3 | ||||
| 6 | M Sep 30 | REVIEW FOR HOUR EXAM | ||||
| W Oct 2 | 10 | Decoder, multiplexer, ALU design | Week #5 | Hwk #5 | ||
| R Oct 3 | Discuss exam; ALU design exercises | |||||
| 7 | M Oct 7 | 11 | SR latch, edge-triggered D flip-flop, timing diagram | |||
| W Oct 9 | 12 | Sequential circuit analysis, state table; Team Meetings | Week #6 | Hwk #6 | ||
| R Oct 10 | Informal early feedback; translate specifications to state machines | Lab #4 | ||||
| 8 | M Oct 14 | 13 | State diagram, sequential circuit design with D flip-flops | |||
| W Oct 16 | 14 | Register, shift register, T flip-flop, counters; Team Meetings | Week #7 | Hwk #7 | ||
| R Oct 17 | Sequential circuit design exercises | Lab #5 | ||||
| 9 | M Oct 21 | 15 | Bus, tri-state buffer, RTL, datapath design | Project 1 due | ||
| W Oct 23 | 16 | Algorithmic state machine, multiplier | Week #8 | Hwk #8 | ||
| R Oct 24 | RTL exercises | |||||
| 10 | M Oct 28 | 17 | ROM, RAM design, coincident decoding | |||
| W Oct 30 | 18 | LC-3 organization, instructions; Team Meetings | Week #9 | Hwk #9 | ||
| R Oct 31 | RAM design exercise | Lab #6 | ||||
| 11 | M Nov 4 | 19 | LC-3 instructions continued, LC-3 datapath | |||
| W Nov 6 | 20 | LC-3 fetch/execute; Team Meetings | Week #10 | Hwk #10 | ||
| R Nov 7 | LC-3 programming exercises | |||||
| 12 | M Nov 11 | 21 | Microprogrammed control; possible Team Meetings | |||
| W Nov 13 | 22 | LC-3 microsequencer; Team Meetings | Week #11 | Hwk #11 | ||
| R Nov 14 | Microprogramming exercises | |||||
| 13 | M Nov 18 | 23 | Hardwired control | Project 2 due | ||
| W Nov 20 | 24 | Subroutine, stack | Week #12 | Hwk #12 | ||
| R Nov 21 | Control unit exercises | |||||
| THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY | ||||||
| 14 | M Dec 2 | 25 | Professional ethics: Incident at Morales, part 1 | |||
| W Dec 4 | 26 | Professional ethics: Incident at Morales, part 2 | Week #13 | Hwk #13 | ||
| R Dec 5 | Instruction evaluation; computer ethics exercises | Lab #7 | ||||
| 15 | M Dec 9 | 27 | Instruction evaluation; end-of-term assessment | |||
| W Dec 11 | Course wrap-up, review session | Week #14 | Hwk #14 | |||