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Class Information
- Lecture: MWF 2-2:50p, Center 109
- Discussion: W 3-3:50p, Center 113
Instructor
Teaching Assistants
- Sudharsan Seshadri,
Thursday 3-4:30pm, Friday 9-10:30am,
Email: suseshad@ucsd.edu
- Ajinkya Kokate,
Tuesday/Thursday 1:30-3pm,
Email: akokate@ucsd.edu
- TA office hour location: CSE B260A
Textbooks
- Digital Design and Computer Architecture,
David Money Harris and Sarah L. Harris,
published by Morgan Kaufmann, 2007
Grading
- Midterm 1: 25%
- Midterm 2: 25%
- Final: 50% (12/07, W 3-5:59p)
Announcements
- 12/15: Final exam statistics: average = 78.11, stdev = 22.50, max = 100.
- 12/05: During finals week, the TAs will have the following office hours tomorrow:
- Ajinkya Kokate: Tue 1:30-3pm, B260A
- Sudharsan Seshadri: Tue 3-4:30pm, B260A
- 12/02: Prof. Lin will have office hours next Monday 12/05 1-3:30pm.
- 12/02: Here are today's slides on more Datapath Examples [ppt,
pdf].
- 12/01: Powerpoint versions of several recent slide presentations are now linked as well.
Please make sure that you have the updated slides from Sudharsan's Monday lecture on 11/28
[ppt, pdf].
- 11/30: Here are the slides [pptx,
pdf] on retiming. Will not be covered on the final.
- 11/28: Here are the updated solution slides from today's lecture
[ppt, pdf]
to Exercises 3.17, 3.22, 3.27, and Interview Question 3.1.
- 11/28: The final will be comprehensive and will cover the topics
for midterms 1 and 2. In addition, the final will cover the following:
- FSM word problems
- Datapath problems
- Delay analysis
- 11/27: Solutions
[ppt, pdf]
to Exercises 3.17, 3.22, 3.27, and Interview Question 3.1.
- 11/23: Midterm 2 statistics: average = 39.12, stdev = 8.70.
- 11/23: Today's lecture slides on VLSI trends
[ppt, pdf].
- 11/23: Here is a study guide prepared
by Jake Rabinowitz for midterm 2. It's a good example of a study guide for the final.
- 11/22: For example FSM word problems, do Exercises 3.17, 3.22, 3.27, and Interview Question 3.1.
- 11/22: Prof. Lin have to cancel office hour tomorrow (Wed 11/23). He will have
make up office hours next Monday 11/28 1-1:50pm, additional to next Wednesday 11/30 1-1:50pm.
- 11/21: FSM Word Problem slides posted.
- 11/18: Here is the Midterm 2 Solution Guide.
- 11/15: There was an error in the reduced state table solution for Example 2. The next states for the
last row should be B and A, not F and D, respectively. See Slide 12.
The updated file statemin_with_solutions_v2 has been posted.
- 11/09: For the week of Nov. 14-18, Prof. Lin will have office hours on Monday (11/14) 12:30-1:50pm and Wednesday (11/16) 1-1:50pm.
- 11/09: Here is the wiki page on Gray code.
Gray codes will not be covered on exams.
- 11/09: Here are example slides on 1-hot encoding.
- 11/08: Prof. Lin will not be holding office hour
this week. Please email him if you need an
appointment.
- 11/07: Midterm 2 will cover the following topics:
- Clock period/critical path analysis
- Timing analysis
- FSM to sequential logic (including 1-hot encoding)
- Reversed sequential logic to FSM
- State minimization
- 11/07: Today's lecture slides ALUs and
Fast Adders have been posted.
- 11/07: The state minimization slides have been updated with solutions.
The new file statemin_with_solutions has been posted.
- 11/02: Today's lecture slides on data path and
this coming Friday's slides on state minimization have been posted.
- 10/29: Sudharsan's office hours have been changed to Thursday 3-4:30pm and Friday 9-10:30am.
- 10/26: The Flip-Flop lecture slides have been updated.
- 10/26: Midterm 1 statistics: max = 39, average = 24.58, stdev = 6.82.
Here is the Solution Guide. The grading guideline is shown
after each question.
- 10/14: You can bring an 8.5" x 11" notesheet, but no calculators, books, or other notes.
- 10/14: Midterm 1 will cover the following topics:
- Signed and unsigned numbers, hexadecimal, octal
- K-map minimization, primes, essential primes
- Multi-level logic minimization: common subexpression, Boolean laws, De Morgan's law
- Adders and subtractors
- 10/04: Prof. Lin will start office hours next Wednesday 10/12,
but the TAs have already started their office hours.
- 10/04: Sample exams posted.
- 10/03: Office hours posted.
- 09/23: Welcome to the first day of class.