ECE532S - Digital Hardware

Course Outline

Spring1998

Instructor

 John Chappel SF2104 chappel@lsil.com (416) 620-7400

Office Hours: The hour right after each lecture.

I'm only at the University on Monday mornings. The best way to reach me the rest of the time is via email. A web page has been set up at:

http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~vaughn/532/532.html

You should check this page frequently for news about the course and updates to labs or assignments. Also, if you have any questions, this is the place to post them. The TAs or I will post answers to all questions, usually the same day. If you want to remain anonymous you can email us directly. We will post the question (anonymously) and answer on the web page.

Teaching Assistants

Vaughn Betz vaughn@eecg.toronto.edu

Michael van Dam mvandam@eecg.toronto.edu

Textbook

None. Notes and tutorials will be made available at the copy center. I'll let you know as they become available. The first two are:

VHDL Reference: S. Brown and Z. Vranesic

MaxPlus2 Tutorial: S.Brown and J. Rose

Mark Breakdown

Labs 20

Problem Sets 5

Term Test 25

Exam 50

There will be no makeup for the term test. If your exam mark is higher than the term test mark, scaled by the ratio of the averages of the term test and exam, then it will be used to replace the term test mark.

Lectures

Monday mornings from 9-11 in RS209. We will have a short break at 10.

Term Test

The date of the term test will be decided during the first lecture. For the term test and final exam, you will be allowed to bring a single aid-sheet (although you won't need it). All types of NON-programmable calculators will be allowed.

Labs

There are two lab sections. One is currently scheduled from 4-7 on Wednesdays and the other is from 4-7 on Thursdays in SF2201. This year you will be using the new Altera FPGA boards in GB144/150. This room is already booked during our lab times, so we will re-schedule the labs during the first lecture. The first VHDL tutorials are in SF2201 at 4:00 on Wed. Jan. 7 and Thurs. Jan. 8.

Course Content

This course concentrates on engineering design. We will examine the practical considerations and complications of building digital circuits. The main topics are:

Last Modified: 10:26am EST, January 02, 1998