ELE444 - Advanced Electronic Design
Hypertext Course Syllabus

Class Meetings: Two 75 minute class meetings per week
Laboratory: One 2.75 hour lab per week

Instructor: Godi Fischer, Professor

Office: Kelley Hall, Room 214
Telephone: (401) 874-5879
E-mail: fischer@ele.uri.edu

Text:

Digital Design with CPLD Applications and VHDL Robert K. Dueck Thomson Delmar Learning, 2005, ISBN 1-4018-4030-2.

Syllabus:

1. Binary Number Systems (Chapter 1)
2. Combinational Logic Fundamentals (Chapter 3)
3. Combinational Logic Design (Chapters 4 & 6)
4. Introdcution to Project I
5. Digital Arithmetic Circuits (Chapter 7)
6. Sequential Circuits (Chapters 8 & 9)
7. Introduction to Project II
8. Finite State Machine Designs (Chapter 10)
9. Interfacing Analog & Digital Circuits (Chapter 12)
10. Memory Devices & Systems (Chapter 13)

Exams:

Exam #1: Th 10-11-07, (75 minutes - 2 page summary allowed)
Exam #2: Tu 11-20-07 (75 minutes - 3 page summary allowed)
Final Exam: T.B.A. (3 hours - 4 page summary allowed)

Grading:

The final grade will be computed as a weighted average of the two intermediate exams (15% each), the final exam (25%), the two lab design projects (15%) an oral presentation (5%), quizzes (6%) and the homework (4%).

NOTE:

Each student must complete all Lab assignments and complete, both design projects to pass the course!

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