Monday: 7:40 - 9:55, AD226

Wednesday: 7:40 - 9:55, AD226

Final Exam – Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 7:40 – 9:55, AD226

No Class - Monday, August 29

No Class - Monday, September 5

No Class - Wednesday, November 23

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 50%

Projects/Tests/Final Exam 50%

Participation, attendance and punctuality are expected

Approximate Schedule:

August 29 No Class

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

September 5 Holiday

September 7 IEEE 754 Floating Point Standard / Transistors

September 12 Boolean Algebra / Transistor Circuits

September 14 Test 0 / Reduction of Digital Logic / Karnaugh Maps

September 19 Quine-McCluskey

September 21 Digital Components / Implementing Arithmetic

September 26 TTL

September 28 Test 1 / 555 Timer

October 3 Sequential Logic and Flip-Flops

October 5 Counters / Shift Registers

October 10 Finite State Machines

October 12 Finite State Machine Optimizations

October 17 Test 2 / Tri-State Logic / Bus Architecture

October 19 Memory / PALs, FPGAs and ASICs / HDLs - Verilog and VHDL

October 24 SAP1 Architecture 1

October 26 SAP1 Architecture 2

October 31 Test 3 / SAP2 Architecture

November 2 SAP2 Architecture

November 7 Introduce SAP3 - 8085

November 9 8086 Architecture

November 14 8086 Instruction Set and Beyond

November 16 Test 4 / RISC vs CISC and Princeton vs Harvard

November 21 PIC Lecture / Lab 0

November 23 Holiday

November 28 PIC Lecture / Lab 1

November 30 PIC Lecture / Lab 2

December 5 PIC Lecture / Lab 3

December 7 PIC Lecture / Lab 4

December 12 Review

December 14 Final Exam