Digital Electronics

• Thur 5/27 Period 8 seniors
• Fri 5/28 Period 2
• Thur 6/3 Period 8

• workday

•  ARM Functions, Stacks, and Frames    video
  • calc Function [5 pts] 

• For attendance: Answer a couple of ARM question in this Google Form

• workday

•  ARM Branches & Conditional Execution  video
  • ARM: Find the Max [10 pts] 

• For attendance: Answer a couple of ARM question in this Google Form

•  ARM Data Processing & Load/Store Instructions   video
  • Logical [10 pts] 
• ARM patents

• ARM Instruction Set

• For attendance: Upload a picture of your current LALU circuit 

•  finish … LALU

•   LALU Postmortem
  • LALU Performance [3 pts] 

• For attendance: Upload a picture of your current LALU circuit 

•   Modern CPU Architectures – Part 2
• Workday

• Workday

• For attendance: Upload a picture of your current LALU circuit 

•  Conditional Jumps  [20 pts]
  • test conditional jump [10 pts] 
  • LALU Find the max 
    • max of 7 numbers [15 pts]
      • in less than 20 instructions [16 pts]
        • as low as 16 instructions is possible
    • max of 100 numbers [19 pts]
    • max of 100 numbers (with possible overflow) [20 pts]
• BONUS #1
  • sort the numbers in data memory
• BONUS #2
  • is it possible to calculate the Collatz sequence using LALU?

•   Pipeline Hazards & Jump  [10 pts]
  • test jmp [7 pts] 
  • continuous fibonaccis [10 pts] 

• For attendance: Upload a picture of your current LALU circuit 

•  Intel x86

• Asynchronous Activity for Attendance
  • For attendance: Upload a picture of your current LALU circuit

•   Modern CPU Architectures – Part 1 (7:35 – 18:57)
•   Pipelining
• finish …Fibonaccis

4/9B

• Flip-Flop Waveform  

• Asynchronous Day (Tue 4/6B, Thus 4/8A)
  • For attendance: Upload a picture of your current LALU circuit 

• Workday

•   Storing Data
  • Fibonaccis [10 pts] 

• WORKDAY
  • finish up through First 4 Instructions

• Flip-Flop Waveform  

•   Loading Data
  • First 4 Instructions [15 pts] 

•   Instruction Register & Decoder
  • First Program Again [10 pts] 

• Test Register (last day to have it checked off for 100%, max 75% after spring break) 
• If you are done with Test Register, stop by to get credit for attendance and/or if you have any questions about LALU.

•   Program Memory & Program Counter
  • First Program [10 pts] 

• finish Registers

• Test Registers [10 pts] 

• Amid challenges, chipmaker AMD …
• clock skew effect
•  Microarchitecture
  • Registers
    • R0 & R1 Registers [5 pts]  

•   BLEND quiz

Microarchitecture (LALU 2.0)

• Flex Friday B Day credit for attendance
•   Latch & Flip-Flop timing    [5 pts]

• Finish Path Delay
• To get a successful start to the next unit, be sure to have Adder/Subtractor done by beginning of next week

•  Path Delay  
  • Path Delay simulations [5 pts] 
• Interview Question #1 (Standard cells TSMC 0.18)
  • Why does a standard cell library have both a NAND, INV, and an AND?

• Flex Friday A Day credit for attendance
•   Latch & Flip-Flop timing [5 pts]

Spice Summary

•   Latches (2020 & 21 – slides 1-2, 11,13-16 only)
  • D-latch simulations 1-3 [85%] simulation 4 [100%]  
•  Flip-Flops (2021 slides 1-15, no lab)
  • D Flip-Flop simulations 1-4  
•   Latch & Flip-Flop timing [5 pts]

Sequential Logic

• 1/29B  B-day only: Async Friday Attendance Quiz
• UIL Written Test Question
• finish … Binary Subtraction and Overflow

•   Binary Subtraction & Overflow
  •   Binary Addition & Subtraction   [5 pts]
  • 16-bit Adder & Subtractor [15 pts]
    • using logisim adder  
    • using Carry Select adder 

• finish … 8/16-bit Carry Select Adder
• Tuesday – open office hours 1pm-3pm

•  Standard Cells
• finish … 8/16-bit Carry Select Adder

•   Carry Select Adder 
  • 8-bit Carry Select Adder
  • 16-bit Carry Select Adder [15 pts] [80%: adds, 90%: ~timing, 100%: correct] 

• Flex Friday A Day credit for attendance
  • 4 question ripple carry adder BLEND Quiz link

•  workday

•  Ripple Carry Adder
  • 4-bit Ripple Carry Adder
  • 8-bit Ripple Carry Adder [10 pts] [80%: adds, 90%: ~timing, 100%: correct]  
• 4 bit-adder Domino Video
  • Domino Adder (13:22 adder)

• Flex Friday B Day credit for attendance
  •  Flex Friday (Dec 11th – A day, Jan 8th – B day) Attendance Credit
    • I think this link will get you there.

• finish FA1opt & FA2opt
  • and FA0, FA1, XOR/Sum/Count equivalence

•  Period 2 – Wed 12/16    Period 8 – Thurs 12/17

• Flex Friday A Day credit for attendance
  •  Flex Friday (Dec 11th – A day) Attendance Credit
    • I think this link will get you there.

•   Full Adder Optimization  
  • FAopt1 & FAopt2 [10 pts] 
  •   Boolean Logic  KEY  form [5 pts]

•  Half & Full Adders  [15 pts] 
  • FA0, FA1, XOR/Sum/Count equivalence  

Binary Adders

• Flex Friday B Day credit for attendance
  •  Flex Friday Nov 20th (A day) Dec 4 (B day)

• finish up all 7-segment labs

• finish up all 7-segment labs

• Flex Friday A Day credit for attendance
  •  Flex Friday Nov 20th (A day) Dec 4 (B day)

•  Digital vs Analog
• finish… 4-input 7-Segment 0-9
• Video Domino INV, AND, XOR gates (6:05-9:52)

•   Karnaugh Maps
  • 4-input 7-Segment 0-9  [20 pts]  
    •   7- Segment 0-9 Minimization 
    • SOP circuit 
    • DeMorgan circuit 
    • BONUS show me the boolean logic steps involved in replacing the W’X’Y’ gate in the g segment logic, with the W’X’Y’Z gate in the a segment logic

• Flex Friday B Day credit for attendance
  •  please complete the Nov 13th Flex Friday Question

• finish … 2-input 7-Segment 0-3

•  Boolean Algebra
  • Socrative
  • NAND game2 – apply DeMorgan’s to the XOR gate so it only uses inv & nand gates  
  • 2-input 7-Segment 0-3  (pairs #3) [20 pts] 
    • simulate simplified logic circuit
    • simulate min-transistor circuit  
    • simulate 74xx circuit 
    • build min-transistor circuit  

• finish …  7-Segment Display Circuits
•   Truth Table   KEY   form [5 pts]

•  Truth Tables & Boolean Expressions  🕪 video
•  Truth Table “hex” Values  LASA{CS} ASK

•  Hello 7-Segment  🕪 video [10 pts] NEXT YEAR LASACS 7-Segment
  • SOP 
  • Partly Simplified 
  • DeMorgan’s (in next lecture) 

• Flex Friday A Day credit for attendance
  •  please complete the Oct 30th Flex Friday Question

• finish … 7-segment Arduino 0-F
•  Logisim-Evolution Logic simulator
  • Berkley CS61C    Cornell CS3410   Duke ECE/CS 250
  • XOR
    • XOR symbol & circuit [9 pts] 
    • NAND game1 – XOR (INV/AND/OR only) [10 pts] 

• Arduino Getting Started
•  7-segment Displays

•  7-segment Arduino 0-F
  • truth table
  • circuit    (pairs #2)  [15 pts]
  • logic analyzer 

• Flex Friday B Day credit for attendance
  • Draw a NMOS transistor & submit picture

odometer

Conversion calculator

• Nor gate 
•  CMOS Logic Gates
• download logisim

Data Representation – Number Systems

• Magic Cards (cards)
• Exponential Growth (binary vs decimal)
  • spreadsheet
•  Decimal, Binary, Hexadecimal
  • Decimal and Binary Number systems
  • Hexadecimal Number system
• Questions 1-5 lasacs
•  Hex to Binary Shortcut
•  Number Conversion worksheet    KEY   form [5 pts]

Combinational Logic Circuits 

•  Ring Oscillator
  • Ring Oscillator simulation [3 pts] 
•  NAND and NOR gates (Part I) 
  • skipping this year   NAND and NOR gates (Part II)

• Flex Friday A Day credit for attendance
  • Draw a NMOS transistor & submit picture to 💧 NMOS

•  How Intel Makes a Chip (3:11)
• finish …  Inverter Simulations
•  Buffers
  • Buffer simulation [3 pts] 
    • Best so far  191.9, 200.6, 202, 206, 208, 209.8, 210

•  Inverter Design & Simulation
  • Inverter Simulations (pairs #2) [20 pts]  

• work day

•  NMOS & PMOS transistors
  •   How does a transistor work? (6:00)
  • Inverter Sizing [10 pts] 

• work day

Spice Summary

•  MOSFET transistors
  • Photolithography: Step by Step (start 1:14)
  • Build a Transistor
    • Step by Step (groups of 2)
  • NMOS Transistor Simulation [10 pts] 

Transistor Circuits

What’s nEEw?

Spice Summary

•  Introduction to a SPICE simulator (ngspice)

What’s nEEw?

• falstad -> Capacitor  (Circuits -> Basic -> Capacitor)
•  Capacitors
  • Simulating RC Circuits [10 pts] 

What’s nEEw?

Basic Electricity &
Ohm’s Law
calculator

• finish … Light up an LED
  • 3. use TinkerCad instead of fritzing
  • 7. skip

•  Light Emitting Diodes (LED)
  • Light up an LED (pairs #1) [10 pts] 
    • 3. use TinkerCad instead of fritzing
    • 7. skip
• next time … Quiz Basic Electricity & Ohm’s Law (for the Quiz)
• installing & running ngspice

  measuring current

What’s nEEw?

• finish …  Series and Parallel Resistance

•  Resistive Circuits & Ohm’s Law
  • Ohm’s Law Practice (optional)
•  Power, Multimeter, Breadboard 
•  Arduino 101 (POWER – slides 1-11)
• Series and Parallel Resistance (pairs #1) [15 pts] 

•  Current, Voltage, Resistance   lasacs
• Basic Resistive Circuits [10 pts] 

DC Circuits

Getting Started

• teacher   lasacs.com   courses   syllabus  Peer Tutors  puzzles
• Women in Tech
• student survey    parent / guardian survey [1 pt]
• classroom pic1 pic2
• fire drill/evacuation: Exit to bus ramp & meet @ pic1  pic2
• lasacs.com/ask/222 (bookmark, ?)
• sign up for Google Classroom
  • First Day [1 pt] 
•  [email protected] (put Period # and name in email subject)
• BLEND (can you see the class)
• LASA{CSCLUBS}
• UIL Competitions/CTFs/NACLO, Cyberpatriot, Online Challenges
• StudentDrop 💧 TEST
• What’s nEEw?
•  Moore’s Law, Amdahl’s Law, Dennard Scaling