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