Monday: 7:40 - 9:55, AD226

Wednesday: 7:40 - 9:55, AD226

30 Classes + Final Exam (December 21)

No Class - Monday, September 7

No Class - Wednesday, November 25

Instructor:

David R. Bostain, drbostain@gmail.com

Prerequisites:

COS102 or equivalent experience

Textbooks/Software:

PICkit 2 Starter Kit

Website:

http://cos231.drbco.com/

Student Grade Evaluation:

Labs/Participation

Homework/Quizzes 33%

Projects 33%

Tests/Final Exam 33%

Participation, attendance and punctuality are expected

Approximate Schedule:

August 31 Number Systems / ASCII / Unicode / Binary Arithmetic / Circuits

September 2 Information Representation / IEEE 754 Floating Point Standard

September 7 Holiday

September 9 Test 0 / Transistors

September 14 TTL / Boolean Algebra

September 16 Reduction of Digital Logic / Karnaugh Maps

September 21 Quine-McCluskey

September 23 Digital Components / Implementing Arithmetic

September 28 Test 1 / Sequential Logic and Flip-Flops

September 30 Finite State Machines / Counters

October 5 Test 2 / Tri-State Logic / Registers / Bus Architecture

October 7 SAP1 Lecture

October 12 Test 3 / SAP2 Lecture

October 14 Begin PIC Microcontroller

October 19 PIC Lecture / Lab 1

October 21 PIC Lecture / Lab 2

October 26 PIC Lecture / Lab 3

October 28 PIC Lecture / Lab 4

November 2 PIC Lecture / Lab 5

November 4 PIC Lecture / Lab 6

November 9 Test 4

November 11 PIC Microcontroller Project Assigned

November 16 Project Lab

November 18 PIC Microcontroller Project Due (Evelyn)

November 23 Begin 8086 – Architecture

November 25 Holiday

November 30 8086 Instruction Set 1

December 2 8086 Instruction Set 2

December 7 Test 5 / 8086 - Assembly Project Assigned

December 9 Assembly Project Lab

December 14 TBA

December 16 Assembly Project Due

December 21 Final Exam