Preliminary ECS154A Class Outline
Lecture Topic Chapter Date
1 Introduction, Digital Design Textbook Chap 2 January 9
Disc Digital Design Tools Logisim Demo January 10
2 Digital Design (Boolean,Gates) Textbook Chap 2 January 11
3 Digital Design (Combinational) Textbook Chap 2 January 16
Disc Digital Design (Combinational) Textbook Chap 2 January 17
4 Digital Design (Combinational) Textbook Chap 5.2,3 January 18
5 Digital Design (Sequential) Textbook Chap 3 January 23
Disc Exam 1 January 24
6 Digital Design (Sequential) Textbook Chap 3 January 25
7 Digital Design (Sequential) Textbook Chap 5.4 January 30
Disc Digital Design (Sequential) Textbook Chap 3 January 31
8 Digital Design(Sequential) Textbook Chap 3 February 1
9 Digital Design (Sequential) Textbook Chap 3 February 6
Disc Digital Design, Review February 7
10 Digital Design (Sequential), Review February 8
11 RISC vs CISC, Pipelining Textbook Chap 7 February 13
Disc Exam 2 February 14
12 Performance, Exceptions Textbook Chap 7 February 15
13 Caches Textbook Chap 8 February 20
Disc Caches Textbook Chap 8 February 21
14 Caches Textbook Chap 8 February 22
15 Operating Systems Overview February 27
Disc Memory Management Textbook Chap 8 February 28
16 Memory Management Textbook Chap 8 February 29
17 Memory Management Textbook Chap 8 March 5
Disc Exam 3 March 6
18 Memory Textbook Chap 5.5 March 7
19 I/O systems Textbook Chap 8 March 12
Disc Input/Output Textbook Chap 8 March 13
20 Advanced topics, History, loose ends March 14
Final: Thursday, March 21, 3:30 P.M.