CS150 - Agenda

Week	Date	Lecture & Readings	Homework & Worksheets	Lab & Project
1	Th 8/23	Lec #1: Course Introduction Reading: DDCA: skim Ch. 1. Read 5.6.2 and Ch 5 of Virtex Users Guide	HW1 HW1_Solution	LabLecture0.pdf
2	Tu 8/28	Lec #2: Digital Abstraction; Lab0, Structural Verilog; Transistors and gates Reading: Chapter 4, section 1-3	Discussion 2	lab0.pdf lab0 files
2	Th 8/30	Lec #3: FSMs; Lab1, Behavioral Verilog; Canonical Forms Reading:	HW2 HW2_Solution	LabLecture1.pdf
3	Tu 9/4	Lec #4: FSMs in Verilog; transistors to flip flops Reading: Chapter 4	Discussion 3	lab1.pdf lab1 files
3	Th 9/6	Lec #5: Lab2: testbenches, MIPS ALU; configurable logic Reading: 3.{1-4} (Moore only in 3.4)	HW3 HW3_Solutionv2 SAR SARTestbench	LabLecture2.pdf
4	Tu 9/11	Lec #6: SAR ADC controller; FPGA circuits Reading: Review Chapter 7	Discussion 4	lab2.pdf lab2 files
4	Th 9/13	Lec #7: PALs,PLAs; Memory; K-maps Reading: 2.{4-8}	HW4 HW4_Solutions	LabLecture3.pdf
5	Tu 9/18	Lec #8: RAM, counters, LFSR Reading: 5.{4,5,6}	Discussion 5	lab3.pdf lab3prelab.pdf lab3 files
5	Th 9/20	Lec #9: UART, K-maps Reading:	HW5 HW5_Solutions	LabLecture4.pdf
6	Tu 9/25	Lec #10: MIPS Reading: Review Ch 6 through 6.4.4	Discussion 6	lab4.pdf lab4 files
6	Th 9/27	Lec #11: Pipelined MIPS Reading: Chapter 7	HW6 HW6_Solutions	ProjectLabLecture.pdf
7	Tu 10/2	Lec #12: 5-stage, 3-stage Reading:		Design Review Document
7	Th 10/4	Lec #13: 3-stage; Memory Mapped IO Reading: 8.5	HW7 HW7_Solutions	Checkpoint 1 BIOS Information
8	Tu 10/9	Lec #14: Stack, procedures, interrupts & exceptions Reading: 6.72, 7.7
8	Th 10/11	Lec #15: Interrupts, MIPS COP0, ISRs Reading:
9	Tu 10/16	Lec #16: Midterm review; Caches Reading:
9	Th 10/18	Lec #17: Midterm in class. Open book, open notes. Reading:	Midterm Key Soln. to #4	Checkpoint 2
10	Tu 10/23	Lec #18: Interrupt implementation, ISRs Reading: 6.7.2, 7.7	HW8 HW8_Solutions	Checkpoint 3, v. 1.3 Example code
10	Th 10/25	Lec #19: FIFOs, OS support, ALU Reading: 5.2
11	Tu 10/30	Lec #20: Adders, Shifters, Multipliers Reading:
11	Th 11/1	Lec #21: Project, Video signals Reading:
12	Tu 11/6	Lec #22: DRAM Reading: 5.5		Checkpoint 4v1.5
12	Th 11/8	Lec #23: SDRAM Reading:
13	Tu 11/13	Lec #24: SDRAM, DMA Reading:		Final Project example code
13	Th 11/15	Lec #25: IC cost model, pixel addressing, SDRAM timing Reading:
14	Tu 11/20	Lec #26: GPUs Reading:
14	Th 11/22	Thanksgiving!
15	Tu 11/27	Lec #27: Reading:
15	Th 11/29	Lec #28: Reading:
16		RRR week
17	Fri 12/14	Final Exam, 7-10pm		Final Review Questions Updated Final Review Presentation Chip Cost (txt) Chip Cost (xlsx)