CSE 140 Components and Design Techniques for Digital Systems Summer 2007


Announcements 8/3 - Professor Chu will hold extra office hours on Saturday (Aug 4) from 1-3p (right before the exam). He will be at the price center, either at Roma Cafe (if it is open) or outside (if Roma isn't open).
8/2 - Sat will be having extra office hours on Friday (Aug. 3) from 10a-12n to help you prepare for the final exam. It will be in room B225 of the CSE building.
7/31 - Professor Chu will start the office hours today at 4pm instead of 3:30pm (a little later then usual due to travel plans)
7/8 - Professor Chu will be holding his office hours at Roma Espresso inside the Price Center
7/8 - Please bring a blue book to the midterm exam on Thursday.
6/28 - Office hours will start on the second week.

Class Tu & Thu 5:00pm - 7:50pm, WLH 2113

Course The objective of this course is to introduce digital components and digital systems designs

Textbook Required. "Contemporary Logic Design", Randy H. Katz & Gaetano Borriello, 2nd edition, 2005, Prentice Hall

Instructor Isaac Chu, UCSD Guest Lecturer, Systems Architect
ichu@ece.ucsd.edu
Office hours: @ EBU3b (CSE) 2116
   Tuesday 3:30-5pm
   Thursday 3:30-5pm
   Friday 4-5:30pm

T.A. Saturnino Garcia
sat@cs.ucsd (you know the rest)
Office hours: @ EBU3b (CSE) B225
   Monday 2-4pm
   Wednesday 2:30-4:30pm


Course Plan Week 1 : Basic concepts of logic design, combinational logic circuits, Boolean formulas, two level logics, motivation for two level simplifications, multilevel logic, two level simplifications.
Week 2 : Multilevel logic simplifications, combinational logic technologies.
Week 3 : Sequential logic elements, timing methodologies and registers.
Week 4 : Basics of Finite state machine design and circuits.
Week 5 : Efficient design of FSM and advanced topics
Final exam: Saturday 8/4 3-6pm at WLH 2113

Grading 20 % : Assignments
25 % : Midterm 1 (7/12/07)
25 % : Midterm 2 (7/26/07)
30 % : Final Exam

Assignments Assignment #1 : Due 7/12/2007
Ch1 (1, 2)
Ch2 (4, 17, 26)
Ch3 (12-nand gates only, 18-abc)
Ch4 (13-abc)

Assignment #2 : due 7/26/2007
Ch6 (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
Ch7 (1, 20)

Assignment #3 : due 8/4/2007
Ch8 (4, 6)