1

Sept 4.

· Motivation & course outline

· handouts: tutorial, expectations, lab schedule, lab, project

· light switches as logic functions,

· basic AND/OR Gates

1

· No lab

2

Sept 5.

· Variables & Functions, inversion

· simple boolean expressions

· truth tables; gates

2

3

Sept 9.

· Boolean Axioms, laws; venn diagram

· minterms; synthesis from truth tables - sum of products

· minterms; product of sums

2

· No lab

4

Sept 22.

· simple algebraic minimization; example

2

5

Sept 12

· Lab 1 Discussion

· Voltage,

· Transistor switch

· 7400 series

· NMOS gate

3

6

Sept 16.

· NMOS &CMOS gates

3

· Lab 1

· TTL/Protoboard

· comb logic; show that two circuits have same function

· circuit debug

7

Sept 18.

· transistor operation

· real propagation delay

· waveform

· prop delay through network

3

8

Sept 19.

· Lab 2 Discussion

· PALS & CPLDs

· Intro to CAD

· Intro to VHDL

3

9

Sept 23.

· Optimization 1

· K maps

4

· Lab 2

· Altera Tutorial

· comb logic needed only

10

Sept 25.

· Optimization 2

· don't cares

4

11

Sept 26.

· Optimization 3

4

12

Sept. 30.

· Optimization 4

· multi-level logic, factoring

4

· Lab 3

· more complex logic function design - 7 seg?

13

Oct 2

· Flip Flops 1

6

14

Oct 3

· Flip Flops 2

6

15

Oct 7.

· Flip Flops 3

6

Week of MIDTERM

16

Oct 9.

· MIDTERM!

6

17

Oct 10.

· Shift Register Example of FF's

· Counters

6

18

Oct 14.

· Set-up/Hold Time, Clock to Q

· State Machine 1

8

· Lab 4

· Sequential Logic - RS Latch, Master-Slave D FF

·

19

Oct 16.

· State Machine 2

8

20

Oct 17.

· State Machine 3

8

21

Oct 21.

· State Machine 4

8

· Lab 5

· Small State Machine

22

Oct 23.

· Numbers/Arithmetic Representation

· Adder - using basic logic

7

23

Oct 24.

· Full Adder

· Project Description, handout proposal forms

7

24

Oct 28.

· Critical Path Delay

· Carry Lookahead Adder

7

· Lab 6

· Big State machine - ALU controlled by switches

25

Oct 30.

· Gate Delay; critical path?

· fanout dependency

3

26

Oct 31.

· Power Dissipation

3

27

Nov 4.

· I/O Devices

· Lab 7

· Electrical Issues:

· gate delay measure, fanout dependency

· Power Dissipation

· I/O Devices

28

Nov 6.

· Glitches and Hazards

29

Nov 7.

· Ring Oscillator

30

Nov 11.

· Tristate Gate, Open Collector

· Transmission Gates

· Multiplexors

· Project Week 1

31

Nov 13.

· Multiplexors as Logic

32

Nov 14.

· Demultiplexors, Decoders

33

Nov 18.

· 2's complement notation

· Project Week 2

34

Nov 20.

· Multipliers

35

Nov 21.

· Bit Serial Addition

36

Nov 25.

·

· Project Week 3

37

Nov 27.

· slack

38

Nov 28.

· FPGAs

39

Dec 2

· Course Summary

· no lab;

· Project Report Due