6.111 Fall 2006

Week of Mon Wed Fri
Sep 04 Labor Day L01: The digital abstraction, static discipline L02: Combinational logic gates, logic families
Sep 11 L03: Canonical logic representations, simplification and synthesis. L04: Verilog hardware description language L05: Sequential building blocks, state and feedback, latches, registers
Lab #1 checkoff by 5pm
Sep 18 L06: Finite state machines, metastability and synchronization L07: FSM example using FPGA and lab kit Lab #2 checkoff by 5pm
Sep 25 Student Holiday L08: System integration issues L09: CI-M Requirements, On-chip Memories
Oct 02 L10: External memories: SRAM, FLASH, DRAM L11: Analog building blocks Lab #3 checkoff by 5pm
Oct 09 Columbus Day L12: Arithmetic circuits: adders, carry lookahead
Lab #3 report due by 5pm
L13: Arithmetic circuits: multipliers, behavioral transformations
Oct 16 L14: Project Kickoff L15: Case study: Video circuits Lab #4 checkoff by 5pm
Oct 23 L16: Case study: digital signal processing
Project Teams due
L17: Case study: Architecture to Verilog, an extended example.
Last lecture.
Lab #5 checkoff by 5pm
Oct 30
Project Abstract due
Lab #3 Revised Report by 5pm
Evening Quiz
7:30 - 9:30, 50-340

Project Proposal Conf. w/ staff
Nov 06     Veteran's Day
Project Block Diagram Conf. w/ staff
Nov 13 Project Design Presentations
(M, Tu, W)
 
Nov 20  
Project Checklist due
Thanksgiving
Nov 27      
Dec 04      
Dec 11 Project Demos and videotaping
(Mon & Tue)
Project Demos and videotaping
Project Report by 5pm
 

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