February

Week 4

Monday 2 February

• First Arduino Lab

Tuesday 3 February

• converting Karnaugh maps to basic transistor circuits
• converting Karnaugh maps to logic gate circuits

Thursday February 7

• HW 1 due
• full adder
• a 2 input decoder
• tri-state devices

Week 5

Monday 9 February

• Arduino Lab 2

Tuesday 10 February

• Static 1 Hazards and other glitches
• RS latch, gated D latch, flip flops

Thursday 12 February

• RAT 3 (RAT 3 brief notes)
  • P&P 3.4-3.7
  • Maccabe ch. 2 PDF
• Commodity Computers

Week 6

Monday 16 February

• Arduino Lab 3

Tuesday 17 February

• von Neumann machines (slides in PDF ~3MB)
• Homework 2 handed out

Thursday 21 February

• How memory works
• von Neumann architecture and the Z80 & 6502
• FSB & CPU speeds and caching

Week 7

Monday 23 February

• Arduino Lab 4

Tuesday 24 February

• Homework 2 due
• LC-3 ISA.
• P&P ch 5
• Handout: LC-3 instruction set and architecture
• Worksheet 4

Thursday 26 February

• Lab LC-3 introduction to the simulator