Please read the course info sheet for the course description, marking schemes, and policies.
Thursday 1:10 PM - 2:30 PM, Friday 3:10 PM - 4:30 PM
Office location: Virtual on Gather Town (password found on Quercus home page)
Armin Choopani, Arsh Khan, Erin Amer, Georges Hanna, Haseeb Choudhary, Jonathan Martin, Junwen Shen, Kevin Thai, Kwangjin Park, Leonard Zhu, Marco Matamoros, Niveditha Kani, Nora Xu, Rutwa Engineer, Sharven Prasad Dhanasekar, Terry Zhou, William Gan
LEC9101: Thursday 3-5, on Bb Collaborate
LEC9102: Thursday 9-11, on Bb Collaborate
LEC9103: Friday 1-3, on Bb Collaborate
Labs are held on Bb Collaborate on Mondays from 9 AM to 9 PM. You must attend the PRA section that you are enrolled in so that each lab section will not be overloaded.
All course-rated discussions as well as course announcements. Daily reading is required.
Used for lectures, labs, and weekly quizzes.
Logged in using UTORid, MarkUs will be used for lab and assignment submissions.
Used for office hours. Open at other times as well as a common social space for everyone in the course. Feel free to drop by anytime. The password can be found on the Quercus home page.
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Backup links to the lecture slides
| M-F Date | Topics and Readings | Lectures | Labs | Quizzes (on Quercus) |
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Week 1 Jan 11-15 |
Intro; Transistors; Basic Logic Circuit
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No lab |
No quiz due |
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Week 2 Jan 18-22 |
Combinational Circuit Design; K-Map
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Lab 1 (submission due Jan 19, 10PM) |
No quiz due |
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Week 3 Jan 25-29 |
Logical Devices: Muxes, Adders, Decoders
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Lab 2 (submission due Jan 26, 10PM) |
Quiz 1 due Jan 27, 10 PM |
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Week 4 Feb 1-5 |
Sequential Circuits: Latches and Flip-Flops
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Lab 3 (submission due Feb 2, 10PM) |
Quiz 2 due Feb 3, 10 PM |
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Week 5 Feb 8-12 |
Registers; Counters; FSMs
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Lab 4 (submission due Feb 9, 10PM) |
Quiz 3 due Feb 10, 10 PM |
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Feb 15-19 |
No lecture in Reading Week |
No lab |
Quiz 4 due Feb 17, 10 PM |
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Week 6 Feb 22-26 |
Latency; Processor Components
Midterm Test on Feb 24 |
TA office hour in lab |
No quiz |
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Week 7 Mar 1-5 |
Processor Components Cont.
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Lab 5 (submission due Mar 2, 10PM) |
Quiz 5 due Mar 3, 10 PM |
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Week 8 Mar 8-12 |
Microprogramming
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Lab 6 (submission due Mar 9, 10PM) |
Quiz 6 due Mar 10, 10 PM |
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Week 9 Mar 15-19 |
Assembly I
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Lab 7 (submission due Mar 17, 10PM) |
Quiz 7 due Mar 17, 10 PM |
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Week 10 Mar 22-26 |
Assembly II
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Lab 8 (submission due Mar 23, 10PM) |
Quiz 8 due Mar 24, 10 PM |
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Week 11 Mar 29-Apr 2 |
Assembly III; Parallelism
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Lab 9 (submission due Mar 30, 10PM) |
Quiz 9 due Mar 31, 10 PM |
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Week 12 Apr 5-9 |
Final Review |
Lab 10 (submission due April 12, 10PM) Assembly Project due on Apr 9 |
No quiz |
When: Wednesday, February 24, 7:10 PM - 8:40 PM
Where: online
Duration: 90 minutes
Aids allowed: all course material posted on the course website
IMPORTANT: Please contact the instructor by January 31 if you have a time conflict for the test.
When: UTM Exam Schedule
Where: online
Duration: 120 minutes
Aids allowed: all course material posted on the course website