Schedule

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
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
  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
  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

Daughter Board Review & Board Capacitance

       
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)
       
29   Apr. 21 Fri Capacitance
Boot Camp (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
       
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
       
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