Digital Electronics

	*Digital Electronics*
	syllabus resources

Date	Notes	Class Activities
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5/30		Graduation 10am
5/29		final period (10:40 – 12:40)
5/23	C day	Hennessy & Patterson Turing Award Lecture (28:02 – ) podcast Hennessy & Patterson (Turing Award winners) RISC vs CISC [24:52 – 27:32] CS Students [29:34 – 31:00] State of the Field [34.35 – 41:15] Android Run Time
5/22		ARM – Find the MAX
5/17		finish … Lab3 (Part V) Flip-flops
5/15		Lab3 (Part V) Flip-flops
5/11		finish …Lab2: Numbers and Displays
5/10	2015 Turing Award 2016 Turing Award 2017 Turing Award	Lab2: Numbers and Displays do Parts I & III first and then do Part II if you have time [40%] I. two 4-bit binary to two 7seg (a) optimized logic (b) simple logic [80%] III. 4-bit Ripple Carry Adder [100%] II. 4-bit binary to 2-digit decimal
5/8		continued… Lab1: Switches, Lights, and Multiplexers III. 3 to 1 Mux IV. 7 Segment Display Section 4.3 Using the 7-Segment Display V. 7 Segment Display 3 to 1 Mux VI. SKIP
AP Testing week 1 May 7-11 week 2 May 14-18
5/3		Lab1: Switches, Lights, and Multiplexers (download PDF for teacher comments) use DE1 Lab Guide to setup project and assign pins I. Switches to LEDs II. 2 to 1 Mux
5/1		a breadboard LALU ? [general 1:27 -3:27, clock 5:40-6:15] programming [9:35] Verilog Testbench lights tested 5 points, skip this if you are behind
4/27	DE1 Lab Guide DE1 User’s Manual	Using the DE1 board DE1 XOR or NAND
4/26	FPGA software	Digital Design Flow & FPGAs Intro to Altera Quartus II & Modelsim XOR gate simulation NAND gate simulation An example where FPGA’s are used in a university class & lab University of California CSE 141L: Introduction to Computer Architecture Lab prerequisites CSE 140 Lab 1 (uses Altera & Modelsim) – an example of what one of your university lab classes may look like in a year or two
Digital Design
		Make a T568B Ethernet Cable [5 pts]
4/24		finish … all of LALU
4/19		LALU Postmortem LALU Performance
4/17		finish … max of 7 numbers
4/13		continue … max of 7 numbers
4/12		ARM Microarchitecture ARM patents continue … max of 7 numbers
4/10		Conditional Jumps, etc. jmpNeg, loadA find the max [90%] max of 7 numbers [95%] max of 100 numbers [100%] max of 100 numbers (with possible overflow) SuperBONUS sort the numbers in data memory
4/5		finish… test jmp, continuous fibonaccis
4/3		Pipelining (Jump) jmp, nop instructions test jmp continuous fibonaccis
3/29	end of 5th 6 weeks
3/29		workday
3/27		Intel x86 Architecture finish… 11 fibonaccis
3/23		Pipelining Introduction continue… 11 fibonaccis
3/22		Microarchitecture (Part 3) store instruction 11 fibonaccis
3/19		finish … add ten numbers in data memory

3/8	Spreadsheet AP assembler	Microarchitecture (Part 2) add Data RAM, Instruction Register, Decoder load, exchange instructions add ten numbers in data memory
3/6	Latch & Flip-Flop timing	finish … Spice & Microarchitecture (Part 1)
3/2		Microarchitecture (Part 1) – Program Memory & Program Counter add a Program Counter, Program Memory add and subtract 4 times
3/1		AMD launches … > 2,000,000 engineering hours How Austin engineers … pipeline spreadsheet (clock skew effect) Microarchitecture (Introduction)
Microarchitecture
2/27		Path Delay Path Delay simulations [5 pts]
2/22		Flip-Flops D Flip-Flop simulations 1-4
2/20		Interview Question #1 (Standard cells TSMC 0.18) Why does a standard cell library have both a NAND, INV, and an AND? continue … Latches
2/15	C-day Spice Summary	Latches D-latch simulations 1-3 [85%] simulation 4 [100%]
Sequential Logic
2/13		Overflow Two Ways [5 pts]
2/9	end of 4th 6 weeks
2/9		finish … Binary Subtraction and Overflow
2/8	Binary Addition & Subtraction	Binary Subtraction and Overflow 16 bit adder/subtractor
2/6		finish … Soldering
2/1		Soldering Soldering Video Soldering Project 85% if DONE, 100% if WORKING or thoroughly debugged Soldering is Easy
1/30		Microchip Field Trip 11:00am – 2:00pm teacher email addresses
1/26		Comparison Between Various Types of Adder Topologies Binary Adders (Carry Lookahead) only worth 5 points, so finish everything else before attempting this
1/25		Standard Cells finish … 8/16-bit Carry Select Adder
1/23		Binary Adders (Carry Select – Part 2) 8-bit Carry Select Adder 16-bit Carry Select Adder label with timing
1/18		Binary Adders (Carry Select – Part 1) 4-to-1 Mux #1 4-to-1 Mux #2
1/16
1/11	Karnaugh Maps, etc	finish … Ripple Carry Adder
1/9		Ripple Carry Adder 4-bit Ripple Carry Adder 8-bit Ripple Carry Adder 4 bit-adder Domino Video Domino AND and XOR gate (10:42 adder)
1/5	Boolean Logic	finish … Full Adders
1/4		Full Adders (Cout Optimization) Full Adder Circuits

12/19	end of 3rd 6 weeks
12/19		Period 8 MIDTERM (open notes) 10:40 – 12:40
12/13	C-Day
12/12		Half and Full Adders XOR equivalence FA0 circuit FA1 circuit Full Adder sum & carry out equivalence
12/8
Binary Adders
12/7		Digital vs Analog MIDTERM review finish … 4-input Seven Segment 0-9
12/5		continue … 4-input Seven Segment 0-9 Domino AND and XOR gate (6:10-9:30)
11/30	Seven Segment 0-9 Minimization	Logic Simplification using Karnaugh Maps 4-input Seven Segment 0-9
11/28		continued … 2-input Seven Segment 0-3

11/17		Logic Simplification using Boolean Algebra Socrative 2-input Seven Segment 0-3 simulate simplified logic circuit simulate min-transistor circuit build min-transistor circuit
11/16	Samsung Field Trip 11:00am – 2:00pm teacher email addresses
11/14	Binary & Hex Conversion 4-func calculator	continued … Basic Seven Segment Display Circuits Truth Table
11/9	Transistors and Spice	Truth Tables & Boolean Expressions Truth Table “hex” Values LASA{CS} ASK Basic Seven Segment Display Circuits 1-input Seven Segment logisim circuit Hello (logisim)
11/7		Logisim Overview Help -> Tutorial 1st four sections of Help -> User’s Guide -> Subcircuits -> Creating circuits XOR symbol & circuit
11/3	end of 2nd 6 weeks
11/3		finish … 7-segment Arduino 0-F
11/2		7-segment display introduction 7-segment Arduino 0-F
10/31	odometer Conversion calculator	Data Representation – Number Systems Magic Cards (cards) Exponential Growth (binary vs decimal) spreadsheet Decimal Binary Hex Decimal and Binary Number systems Hexadecimal Number system Questions 1-5 lasacs Shortcut to convert hex to binary and binary to hex Number Conversion worksheet
Combinational Logic Circuits
10/26		CMOS Logic Gates finish … NAND and NOR gate simulations
10/24		NAND and NOR gates (Part II) continue … NAND and NOR gate simulations
10/20		NAND and NOR gates (NAND 80% NOR 100%) NAND and NOR gate simulations
10/19		finish … Inverter Circuits
10/17		7404 Hex Inverter inverter & ring oscillator measurements
10/12		Inverter Simulations (Buffer 80% Ring Oscillator 100%) Buffers Buffer simulation Ring Oscillator Ring Oscillator simulation
10/10		Review Spice Summary Austin American Statesman – Samsung Announces $4B Investment Understanding IC Costs List of Intel Fabs How Intel Makes a Chip (3:11) How do they make Silicon Wafers and Computer Chips (9 min) finish … Inverter Simulation NACLO (North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad)
10/5	Spice Summary ngspice Manual	Inverter Design Inverter Simulation
10/3		NMOS & PMOS transistors How transistors work – the MOSFET (3:12 – 7:10) How does a transistor work? (6:00) installing & running ngspice CTE Four Year Plan classes ACC Articulation how to sign up
9/29	end of 1st 6 weeks
9/29		MOSFET transistors Build a Transistor Step by Step NMOS Transistor Simulation
Transistor Circuits
9/19 9/21 9/26 9/28		Arduino 101 (Projects 1-6) Projects 1 -3: 80% 4-5: 90% 6:100%
9/15	capturing oscilloscope screen	Using an oscilloscope Oscilloscope
9/14	Spice Summary	Introduction to a SPICE simulator (CoolSPICE) RC Circuit Spice Simulation Arduino 101 (Get Started)

9/12		Capacitors Inductors (for reference only) falstad -> Capacitor
9/7		Voltage Divider [100%] Voltage Divider
9/6	Back to school night
9/5	Series Parallel Resistance	fritzing demo Light Emitting Diodes (LED) [90%] Light up an LED
8/31		next time … Quiz Series and Parallel Resistance Circuits finish … Series and Parallel Resistance
8/29	Ohm’s Law calculator measuring current	Power, Multimeter, Breadboard Arduino 101 (how to power your breadboard circuit from the Arduino) Series and Parallel Resistance
8/25	Series & Parallel Resistance	Resistive Circuits and Ohm’s Law Ohm’s Law Practice
DC Circuits
8/24	falstad IEEE Spectrum EE Times	Getting Started (continued) Welcome to BLEND Quiz seating chart Current, Voltage, Resistance Basic Resistive Circuits
8/22		Getting Started The goal today is to get an overview of the course, go over class expectations, as well as setup and learn some of the tools we’ll be using. a little information about your teacher lasacs.com syllabus Student/ Parent Information Student survey Parent survey Signature check for understanding kahoot.it lasacs Google Classroom snipping tool What’s nEEw lasacs.com/ask/222 (icon & bookmark) In File Explorer Organize -> Folder and search options -> View Tab -> Uncheck “Hide extensions for know file types” [email protected] include Period # in email subject and name in e-mail body

Digital Design

Microarchitecture

Sequential Logic

Binary Adders

Data Representation – Number Systems

Combinational Logic Circuits

Transistor Circuits

DC Circuits

Getting Started (continued)

Getting Started