walker@mcs.kent.edu
MSB 351, 672-4004 ext. 351
Office hours = Tu Th 1-3pm, and by appt.
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Teaching Assistant: none
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- Syllabus (1/18/00)
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- Schedule (5/10/00)
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An Article on the Course
- "A Practical One-Semester 'VLSI Design' Course for Computer Science
(and Other) Majors",
Robert A. Walker,
in Proc. of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science
Education Technical Symposium,
pages 237-241. ACM, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1999.
(Unofficial version: pdf
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Online books
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- 3/13/00 Exam 1
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Solution
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Mean = 81.6, standard deviation = 15.2
- Take-Home Final Exam
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(due by 5pm on 5/9/00)
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- Project 1
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(due in class on 2/25/00)
- Project 2
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(due in class on 3/3/00 and 3/17/00)
- Project 3
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(due in class on 4/19/00)
- Project 4
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(due in class on 5/1/00)
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- 1/19/00 Lecture 01 -- Introduction
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- 1/21/00 Lecture 02 -- ASICs, Part I
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- 1/24/00 Lecture 03 -- ASICs, Part II
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- 1/26/00 Lecture 04 -- Combinational Circuits
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-- from
CS 314 at Cornell University --
- 1/28/00 Lecture 05 -- Combinational Circuits (Cont.)
- 1/31/00 Lecture 06 -- Sequential Circuits
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-- from
CS 314 at Cornell University --
- 2/2/00 Lecture 07 -- Sequential Circuits (Cont.)
- 2/4/00 Lecture 08 -- Building Blocks
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-- from
CS 314 at Cornell University --
- 2/7/00 Lecture 09 -- Schematic Capture
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- 2/9/00 Lecture 10 -- Altera MAX+PLUS II
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- 2/11/00 Lecture 11 -- Altera MAX+PLUS II
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- 2/14/00 Lecture 12 -- Using Altera MAX+PLUS II
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- 2/16/00 Lecture 13 -- CMOS Transistors & Gates
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- 2/17/00 (extra class) -- Junli Li
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Dist. OS Seminar
- 2/18/00 Lecture 14 -- CMOS Fab. & Design Rules
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- 2/21/00 Lecture 15 -- Toward FPLDs
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- 2/23/00 Lecture 16 -- Types of FPLDs
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- 2/24/00 (extra class) -- Kun Qui
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Dist. OS Seminar
- 2/25/00 Lecture 17 -- Actel ACT
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- 2/28/00 Lecture 18 -- Altera MAX
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- 3/1/00 Lecture 19 -- Altera FLEX 8000
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- 3/3/00 Lecture 20 -- Altera FLEX 10K & APEX
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- 3/6/00 Lecture 21 -- Xilinx XC400
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- 3/8/00 -- class cancelled due to "extra class" 2/17
- 3/10/00 -- class cancelled dut to "extra class" 2/24
- 3/13/00 -- Exam 1
- 3/15/00 -- class cancelled due to "extra class" 3/16
- 3/16/00 (extra class) -- Wenjun Miao
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Dist. OS Seminar
- 3/17/00 -- project demos in VLSI Design Lab (extended class)
- 3/27/00 -- AHDL (Salcic pp. 119-129)
- 3/29/00 -- AHDL (Salcic pp. 129-143)
- 3/31/00 -- class cancelled due to "extended class" 3/17
- 4/3/00 -- AHDL (Salcic pp. 144-168, Altera Chapter 3 Tutorial)
- 4/5/00 -- AHDL Examples (from Scarpino)
- 4/7/00 -- class cancelled
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Lecture Notes (cont.)
- 4/10/00 -- AHDL Design Examples (Salcic Chapter 5)
- 4/12/00 -- SimP Microprocessor (Salcic Chapter 6)
- 4/14/00 -- class cancelled
- 4/17/00 -- VHDL Overview (Hamblen pp. 14-22, 75-81)
- 4/19/00 -- VHDL Overview (Hamblen pp. 82-95)
- 4/21/00 -- VHDL Examples (from Scarpino)
- 4/24/00 -- VHDL Examples (Hamblen pp. 120-129), VHDL (Salcic pp. 243-257)
- 4/26/00 -- VHDL (Salcic pp. 257-303)
- 4/28/00 Lecture 33 -- Behavioral Synthesis
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- 5/1/00 -- Final Project Presentations in VLSI Design Lab (extended class)
- 5/3/00 -- class cancelled due to "extended class" 5/1
- 5/5/00 -- class cancelled due to "extended class" 5/1
Lecture Followups
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