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CSE140L: Digital Systems Laboratory

Instructor: Pietro Mercati
Lectures: Mon/Wed 11:00am-11:50pm in WLH 2204
Office hrs: Mon 2pm-4pm, room 2109 EBU3B
Email: pimercat@eng.ucsd.edu * please put CSE140 in the email subject line *

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Discussion sessions:
(May be subject to changes) Thu 5-6pm, room TBD
NOTE: unless it is requested by students, the discussion session will be a TA lab office hour.

TAs:
Muhsin Gurel; mgurel@eng.ucsd.edu
Harsha Basavaraj; hbasavar@eng.ucsd.edu

Tutors:
Zhiyu Mao (Max); z3mao@ucsd.edu
Chao Li (Jack); chl218@ucsd.edu
Ye Feng; yefeng@ucsd.edu

Schedule of lectures, discussion and office hours:
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(May be subject to changes during the first week!)

Course Overview and Prerequisites:

Implementation with computer-aided design tools for combinational logic minimization and state machine synthesis.This Lab course covers software and hardware projects. The course runs concurrently with CSE 140.

Textbook

Suggested textbook: Digital Design by F. Vahid

Obtaining additional assistance

Please use the discussion forum in PIAZZA to ask questions. The fastest way to get answers to your questions about the course is by asking them during lecture, discussion section, and office hours. You can also ask questions by sending email to the instructor and the TA(s). We will try to respond to your questions as quickly as possible, but sometimes a prompt response may not always be possible.

Any students who feel that they may need additional accommodation due to a disability should contact the instructor privately to discuss these specific needs. Also, contact the Office for Students with Disabilities (OSD) at (858) 534-4382 as soon as possible to better ensure that such accommodations, such as alternative test-taking environments or note-taking services, are implemented in a timely fashion.

Grading

The final grade for this course will be assigned as following:

Homeworks (5); #1: 0%; #2,#3: 10%; #4,#5: 15%
Final 50%

Final Exam

The final exam will take place on 09/02/2016 from 11.30am to 2.29pm

Homeworks

Homeworks will be assigned to help prepare students for exams.

Homework Grading Policy

Each homework except homework #1 is assigned on Wednesday and is due on the following Wednesday. Students can complete their assignments either individually or in teams of two. Before the end of Wednesday, students should meet with a tutor or a TA to "checkoff" the homework. For this, students will meet one-on-one with a tutor or a TA and present their solution. In case students are working in pair, they have to meet together at the same time and demonstrate that they equally shared the work between them. Also, they will obtain the same grade, which will be the lowest between the two. The checkoff procedure includes explaining the problems and the implemented solution, reviewewing and explaining the code, verify compilation, verify functionality. Each homework will include a list of what is expected during checkoff. The tutor or TA will file a report of this interview for each student, then TAs and instructor will convert this into a numeric grade.
Students are also required to submit their source code to the instructor and TAs before the "checkoff" takes place.

Academic Dishonesty

As students in this offering of CSE 140L, you are expected to know and abide by the UCSD Policy on Integrity of Scholarship (as described in the Student Conduct Code in the UCSD General Catalog), the Jacobs School of Engineering Student Honor Code, and the course policy described here. Please take a few moments to read and review these policies.

Homework must be completed individually or in pairs. All exams and quizzes are individual effort. Dishonest behavior will not be tolerated during an exam. You will be held responsible even if you plagiarize only a small portion of someone else's work. Furthermore, providing your work for others to copy is also considered as academic dishonesty.

Any student violating UCSD's Academic Dishonesty or UCSD's Student Conduct policies will earn an 'F' in the course and will be reported to their college Dean for administrative processing. Committing acts that violate Student Conduct policies that result in course disruption are cause for suspension or dismissal from UCSD.