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| Class Number | Date | |
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| 1 | January 29 | Course Introduction
Read Chapter 1 |
| 2 | January 31 | Binary Numbers
[ Assignment 1 ] Due Memorize the [ Units of Measure Chart ]. Read Chapter 2 |
| 3 | February 5 | Encoding Fixed Point and Floating Point Values |
| 4 | February 7 | IEEE-754 Floating Point Encoding
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| February 12 | No Class (Lincoln's Birthday) | |
| 5 | February 14 | Floating-Point and Characters
[ Assignment 2 ] Due Read Appendix A |
| 6 | February 19 | Introduction to Digital Logic
[ Assignment 3 ] Due |
| 7 | February 21 | Gates and Logic Networks |
| 8 | February 26 | Functions, truth-tables, networks.
Minimization. Read pages 501-508 |
| 9 | February 28 | Building Blocks: Full Adders, Decoders, Multiplexers
[ Assignment 4 ] Due [ Assignment 4 Solutions ] |
| 10 | March 5 | Multiplexers and Tristate Gates
[ Assignment 5 ] Due [ Assignment 5 Solutions ] |
| 11 | March 7 | *** First Exam ***
Chapters 1-2; Appendix A pp 441-471; Appendix B pp 501-508 [ Last Semester's First Exam ] |
| 12 | March 12 | Sequential Circuits: The Latch |
| 13 | March 14 | Sequential Circuits: Types of Latches |
| 14 | March 19 | Flip-Flops |
| 15 | March 21 | Binary Counter Design |
| *** Spring Break ***
March 25 - 29 | ||
| 16 | April 2 | Finite State Machine Design
Read Pages 471-491 |
| April 3 | *** Last Day to Drop ***
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| 17 | April 4 | 3-bit Sequence Detector
Stopwatch: 7-segment display [ Assignment 6 ] Due A-29 Solution A-34 Solution |
| 18 | April 9 | |
| 19 | April 11 | |
| 20 | April 16 | *** Second Exam ***
Last Semester's Second Exam |
| 21 | April 18 | Exam post mortem
Processor - Memory Interface |
| 22 | April 23 | Instruction Set Architectures |
| 23 | April 25 | ARC Instruction Formats |
| 24 | April 30 | ARC ISA-level operations.
Assignment 7 Due |
| 25 | May 2 | ARC ISA-level implementation. |
| 26 | May 7 | Datapath design and control. |
| 27 | May 9 | Microinstruction fields. |
| 28 | May 14 | Microcode algorithms.
Assignment 8 Due |
| May 23 | *** Final Exam ***
6:15 to 8:15 PM | |