The following is the schedule for our class. This should be updated throughout the semester to reflect changes.
| Class# | Lab# | Date | Day | Topic | Quiz/Test | Hw. | Project | Reading |
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| 1 | Feb. 8 | Wed | Roadmap | |||||
| 2 | Feb. 10 | Fri | ECON101 (silicon economics) | PCB Design Tutorial | ||||
| 3 | Feb. 13 | Mon | PCB Intro. | Q1 | ||||
| 1 | Feb. 14 | Tues | PCB Tutorial | |||||
| 4 | Feb. 15 | Wed | PCB Intro. | |||||
| 5 | Feb. 17 | Fri | More PCB | |||||
| 6 | Feb. 20 | Mon | The Project | Q2 | H1 | DS92LV16 Data Sheet DS92LV16 Design Manual LVDS Owners Manual XSA Manual |
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| 2 | Feb. 21 | Tues | PCB Tutorial | |||||
| 7 | Feb. 22 | Wed | More Project | |||||
| 8 | Feb. 24 | Fri | More Project | |||||
| 9 | Feb. 27 | Mon | Flip-flops and Pipelining | Q3 | H2 | Oklobdzija Book Chapter 1 Oklobdzija IBM Research Paper |
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| 3 | Feb. 28 | Tues | PCB Tutorial | Part 1 | ||||
| 10 | Mar. 1 | Wed | Flip-flops | |||||
| 11 | Mar. 3 | Fri | Flip-flop circuits Note from Class | |||||
| 12 | Mar. 6 | Mon | Advanced Flip-Flops | Q4 | H3 | |||
| 4 | Mar. 7 | Tues | VHDL Tutorial | Part 2 | ||||
| 13 | Mar. 8 | Wed | VHDL Intro | |||||
| 14 | Mar. 10 | Fri | VHDL Intro | |||||
| 15 | Mar.13 | Mon | VHDL Entity, Architecture, Signal | Q5 | H4 | |||
| 5 | Mar.14 | Tues | EVITA VHDL Tutorial | Part 3 | ||||
| 16 | Mar. 15 | Wed | VHDL Process and Variable | |||||
| 17 | Mar. 17 | Fri | VHDL Discrete Event Simulation | |||||
| 18 | Mar. 20 | Mon | VHDL Modeling | Q6 | ||||
| 6 | Mar. 21 | Tues | EVITA VHDL Tutorial | Part 4 | ||||
| 19 | Mar. 22 | Wed | VHDL | |||||
| 20 | Mar. 24 | Fri | ||||||
| 21 | Apr. 3 | Mon | Review Session | H5/6 | ||||
| 7 | Apr. 4 | Tues | ||||||
| 22 | Apr. 5 | Wed | No Lecture - Test 1 Solution | Exam1 | ||||
| 23 | Apr. 7 | Fri | Signal Integrity | |||||
| 24 | Apr. 10 | Mon | Boot Camp (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13) | Q7 | ||||
| 8 | Apr. 11 | Tues | Part 5 | |||||
| 25 | Apr. 12 | Wed | Boot Camp (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13) | |||||
| 26 | Apr. 14 | Fri | Boot Camp (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13) | |||||
| 27 | Apr. 17 | Mon | Resistance Boot Camp (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13) |
Q8 | H7 | |||
| 9 | Apr. 18 | Tues | Part 6 | |||||
| 28 | Apr. 19 | Wed | Capacitance Boot Camp (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13) |
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| 29 | Apr. 21 | Fri | Capacitance Boot Camp (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13) |
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| 30 | Apr. 24 | Mon | Inductance Boot Camp (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13) |
Q9 | ||||
| 10 | Apr. 25 | Tues | Part 7 | |||||
| 31 | Apr. 26 | Wed | Inductande |
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| 32 | Apr. 28 | Fri | Inductance | |||||
| 33 | 1-May | Mon | Inductance Figures | Q10 | ||||
| 11 | 2-May | Tues | Part 8 | |||||
| 34 | 3-May | Wed | Inductance and Transmission Lines | |||||
| 35 | 5-May | Fri | Transmission Lines | |||||
| 36 | 8-May | Mon | Transmission Lines | |||||
| 12 | 9-May | Tues | Final project help session | |||||
| 37 | 10-May | Wed | Transmission Lines | |||||
| 38 | 12-May | Fri | Transmission Lines / Exam Review | |||||
| 39 | 15-May | Mon | Final in class Exam | Exam2 | ||||
| 13 | 16-May | Tues | Poster Presentations | Posters & Reports | ||||
| 40 | 17-May | Wed | Poster Presentations |