Daily Calendar

Course Week	Dates	Lectures	Assigned Text	Lab Assignment	Comments
Week 1	8/18/09	Numbers, Two's Complement	1.1-1.4	Lab 1 (Intro)
	8/20/09	Combinational Logic Introduction	1.5, 2.1
Week 2	8/25/09	Combinational Logic Basics	2.2, 2.7	Lab 1 (Intro)
	8/27/09	Working with K-maps	2.7		Wikpedia
Week 3	9/1/09	K-maps and Don't Cares	2.4, 2.7	Lab 2 (7 Segment Lab)	Examples (sol)
	9/3/09	Schematics and more advanced K-maps with espresso/QM	2.4		Simplified K-map rules
Week 4	9/8/09	Boolean Algebra, Pushing Bubbles	2.3, 2.5	Lab 2a (Ring Oscillator Lab)	Handout on Boolean Algebra (tex)
	9/10/09	Multiplexors, Glitches, Delays, Synchronization with Clocks	2.8.1, 2.9
Week 5	9/15/09	Introduction to Sequential Logic	3.1, 3.3	Lab 3 (Sequential Logic Lab)
	9/17/09	Sequential Circuits, Finite State Machines, Moore Machines	3.4, 2.8.2
Week 6	9/22/09	Mealy Machines, Differences between Moore and Mealy	3.4	Lab 3 (Sequential Logic Lab)
	9/24/09	Bistable Elements, Memory, Latches, Flip-Flops	3.2
Week 7	9/29/09	Test I		Lab 4 (Tbird Lights)
	10/1/09	Introduction to Hardware Descriptive Languages, Testbenches	4.1, 4.4, 4.5 4.6
Week 8	10/6/09	HDL basics and advanced features of simulation	4.2, 4.3	Lab 4 (Tbird Lights)
	10/8/09	Digital Building Blocks, Arithmetic Logic Unites,	5.1, 5.2
Week 9	10/13/09	Sequential Building Blocks	5.4,5.6	Lab 5 (ALU Lab - Higher Level Combinational Logic with HDLs)
	10/15/09	Logic Arrays, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)	5.5
Week 10	10/20/09	Memory	5.6, 8.1	Lab 5 (ALU Lab - Higher Level Combinational Logic with HDLs)
	10/22/09	Project Definition, Architecture	handout
Week 11	10/27/09	Instructions/Encoding	6.2, 5.3	Project Part I	Demo
	10/29/09	Digital Video, Color Burst	handout
Week 12	11/3/09	Terminations	Appendix A	Project Part I
	11/5/09	Combinational Logic Timing, Logic Families	2.8, 2.9
Week 13	11/10/09	Sequential Logic Timing I	3.5	Project Part II
	11/12/09	Test II
Week 14	11/17/09	Sequential Logic Timing II, Setup and Hold delays, Measuring Setup/Hold.	3.5, 3.6	Project Part II
	11/19/09	Setup/Hold Delays, Clock Skew	handout
Week 15	11/24/09	State Machine Optimization
	11/26/09	Thanksgiving Holiday
Week 16	12/1/09	Noise Margins, VTC, Levels	3.4.4	ECEN Design Day
	12/3/09	Decomposition
	12/4/09	Final Lab Report Due (no exceptions)