+ Digital Systems Design, Fall 2007

14:332:437 Digital Systems Design, Fall 2007
  Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! The Final Exam, Practicum 1-4, Homework 1-10, and Exam 1-2 scores are now on sakai, and your grades are finalized. See Bushnell to question the grading of your Final exam. I will be India from 1/2/2008 through 1/9/2008, so see me on 12/31, or wait until I come back. Solutions to everything are on the table outside of CORE 624. The average on the Final was 53% and the course average on Exam 2 was 73%. Great job! Pick up your graded work from the table outside of Room CORE 624. Bushnell's Office Hours on Thursday are now adjusted to 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Srihitha will hold office hours from now on in CORE 516. Current Field-Programmable Gate Arrays are using 70 nanometer chip technology, which is at the state of the chip making art!
Instructor:
Prof. Michael Bushnell (bushnell@caip.rutgers.edu)
Phone: (732) 445-4854
Lecture time: Mon., Wed. 3:20-4:40
Classroom: SEC-209
Course Laboratory: EE 103 and CORE 533 UNIX Work Station Rooms


Teaching Assistants
Srihitha Yerabaka, CORE 516 (srihitha@caip.rutgers.edu)
Phone: (732) 318-9768 Office hours: Mon., Fri. 1 - 2:30 p.m.

Administrative Contact:
Lynn Ruggiero (ruggiero@ece.rutgers.edu)
Phone: (732) 445-5241

Texts:

Synopsys Operating Instructions: postscript pdf

Course Syllabus: postscript pdf

Errors in Lala textbook: postscript pdf

Verilog Do's and Don'ts: postscript pdf

1997 Final Examination for study -- test and solution

1998 Final Examination for study -- test and solution

A Company Called IBM -- Used with permission from International Business Machines Corp.

"Error Detecting and Error Correcting Codes," by Richard W. Hamming, Bell System Technical Journal, 29(2): 16-29, 1950.

"A Signed Binary Multiplication Technique," by Andrew D. Booth, Quarterly Journal of Mechanical Applied Mathematics, 4: 236-240, 1951.

"A Logic for High-Speed Addition," by A. Weinberger and J. L. Smith, National Bureau of Standards Circular 591, pp 3-12, 1958.

"A Suggestion for a Fast Multiplier," by C. S. Wallace, IEEE Transactions on Electronic Computers, EC-13: 14-17, 1964.

Powerpoint Lecture Notes:

Assignments:

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