Administrative Information, ECS154A Spring 2006

Lecture: Tuesday and Thursday 4:40-5:55 PM, Chem 176
Discussion: Wednesday 4:10-5:00 PM,   Chem 166

Instructor: Matthew Farrens
Office: 3047 Kemper Hall
Office Hours: 1:30-2:30PM Mondays, or by appointment
e-mail: farrens@cs.ucdavis.edu

TA:   Ravishankar Rao
Office: 3106 Kemper hall
Office Hours: 2-3PM Wednesdays
e-mail: cs154at@cs.ucdavis.edu

Readers: None
e-mail: cs154ar@cs.ucdavis.edu
Homework Box (for written homeworks): Room 86 Kemper Hall

Required text 1: William Stallings, Computer Organization & Architecture (6th edition), Macmillan Publishing Company, New York
Required text 2: Brown and Vranesic, Fundamentals of Digital Logic with VHDL Design , McGraw-Hill


154A Newsgroup (read, but do not post to this group): ucd.class.ecs154a

Course Newsgroup for Student Use: ucd.class.ecs154a.d

Prerequisites: The prerequisites for this course are ECS50 or EEC70, and ECS110.

Labs: Approximately one per week
Late Policy: Cumulative Total of 7 days/quarter

Grading (approximate!):
Midterm 30%
Homework 14%
Labs 15%
Quizzes 4%
Final 37%