University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering


Digital Design Principles

ECE 152A - Summer 2011

Instructor: Professor John J. Shynk

Schedule: Monday and Wednesday
3:30 - 4:50 p.m.
Room WEBB 1100


 

Announcements:

8-18-11: Office hours next week: Amir: Tuesday 4:30-6:00 p.m., Melika: Tuesday
3:00-4:30 p.m., Wei: Monday 12:00-1:30 p.m., Instructor: Monday 5:00-6:00 p.m.,
Wednesday 2:00-3:00 p.m.
8-17-11: Reminder: The final exam will be held on Wednesday, August 24.
7-19-11: The TA office hours on Thursday, July 28, are moved to Monday,
July 25, for questions about the midterm exam.
7-18-11: Reminder: The midterm exam will be held on Wednesday, July 27.
7-13-11: Problem 7.8 can be submitted with Homework 5.
7-6-11: Problem 4.21 can be submitted with Homework 4.
6-28-11: Holiday on Monday, July 4. No class or office hour.
6-22-11: New classroom: Webb Hall 1100.
6-20-11: Lab sessions begin on Tuesday, June 21 (revised lab schedule below).
6-2-11: The first class meeting is on Monday, June 20 (3:30 - 4:50 p.m.).

Office Hours:

Instructor: Monday and Wednesday, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m., HFH 3123.
Wei: Wednesday, 12:00 - 2:00 p.m., HFH 1124 (revised).
Amir: Thursday, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m., HFH 1124.
Melika: Thursday, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m., HFH 1124.

Course Information:

Design of synchronous digital systems: timing diagrams, propagation delay, latches and flip-flops,
shift registers and counters, Mealy/Moore finite state machines, Verilog, 2-phase clocking, timing analysis,
CMOS implementation, S-RAM, RAM-based designs, ASM charts, state minimization.

Labs:

Tuesday, 2:00 - 4:50 p.m., HFH 1124 (Thursday cancelled)(Amir)
Tuesday, 5:00 - 7:50 p.m., HFH 1124 (Thursday cancelled)(Melika)
Wednesday, 6:00 - 8:50 p.m., HFH 1124 (Monday cancelled)(Wei)

Grading:

Homework 15% (weekly)
Lab 20% (weekly)
Midterm Exam 30% (Wednesday, July 27, 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.)
Final Exam 35% (Wednesday, August 24, 3:30 - 4:50 p.m.)

Required Textbook:

Brown & Vranesic, Fundamental Digital Logic with Verilog Design, McGraw-Hill, 2nd Edition, 2008

Lecture Handouts:

Lecture Slides by Dr. Johnson (overlap with our lecture days):

Lab Information:

Lab Handouts:

 


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