Preliminary ECS154A Class Outline
Lecture Topic Chapter Date
1 Introduction, History & Review Stallings, 1&2 September 25
2 Digital Design (Boolean,Gates) Design Book, 2&3 September 30
Disc Digital Design Tools Quartus Demo October 1
3 Digital Design (Combinational) Design Book, 3&4 October 2
4 Digital Design (Combinational) Design Book, 6&5 October 7
Disc Digital Design (Combinational) Stallings, pp.110-116 October 8
5 Digital Design (Combinational) Design Book, 5 October 9
6 Digital Design (Sequential) Design Book, 7 October 14
Disc Digital Design (Sequential) Design Book, 7 October 15
7 Digital Design (Sequential) Design Book, 8 October 16
8 Digital Design(Sequential) Design Book, 8 October 21
Disc Digital Design (Sequential) Design Book, 8 October 22
9 Digital Design (Sequential) Design Book, 8 October 23
10 Digital Design (Sequential), Review October 28
Disc Digital Design, Review October 29
11 Transition Lecture October 30
12 Computer Components, Function Stallings, 3 November 4
Disc MIDTERM November 5
13 Interrupts, Busses Stallings, 3 November 6
14 HOLIDAY November 11
Disc Internal Memory Stallings, 5 November 12
15 Memory, Caches Stallings, 4 November 13
16 Operating Systems Overview Stallings, 8 November 18
Disc Memory Management Stallings, 8 November 19
17 Memory Management Stallings, 8 November 20
18 External Memory Stallings, 6 November 25
Disc External Memory Stallings, 6 November 26
Thanksgiving November 27
19 External Memory Stallings, 6 December 2
Disc Input/Output Stallings, 7 December 3
20 Loose ends, Review December 4
Final: Friday, December 12, 1:00 P.M.