2020-09-02
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2:30 |
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2D, 2B |
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2C |
2A |
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Sep 07 |
holiday |
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Sep 14 |
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Sep 21 |
Q1 |
L |
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L |
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Sep 28 |
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L |
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L |
L |
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Oct 05 |
Q2 |
L |
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L, MT1 |
L |
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Oct 12 |
holiday |
L |
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L |
L |
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Oct 19 |
Q3 |
L |
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L |
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Oct 26 |
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L |
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L |
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Nov 02 |
Q4 |
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Nov 09 |
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L |
holiday |
L |
L |
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Nov 16 |
WD, Q5 |
L |
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L |
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Nov 23 |
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L |
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Nov 30 |
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Dec 07 |
exams |
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exams |
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exams |
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L=Lab Session, Qn = Quiz n, MTn=Midterm n, 3:30 to 5:20 PM |
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WD: Withdrawal deadline. |
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Tentative; subject to change.
2020-01-10
The first lab will be held starting the week of September 14.
2020-09-09
The DMM for the first year students is available for purchase at Lee's Electronics under SKU 101108: https://leeselectronic.com/en/product/101108.html
2020-09-14
Lab 1 is available. The first lab session with online help will be Friday, September 15. You may attend any lab sessions you wish. The due date for Lab 1 submissions, shown under Activities > Assignments, is October 1.
2020-09-20
The lab instructions say that the code in your report should be "easy to read". While, admittedly, this is a subjective standard, one student embedded two high-resolution photos (not screen captures) of his monitor screen in a 31 MB PDF. The photos were not cropped, had generous amounts of glare and Moiré, and the text was rotated 90 degrees. If I were doing the marking I would not bother reading it and that student would get a mark of zero for the report.
Most students have used screen captures rather than embedding the text of their HDL . For future labs I will require that code be embedded as text. So you may as well learn how to do this now.
2020-09-28
In case you missed the announcements from Gundi, here it is below
From: Gundi Minato <Gundi_Minato@bcit.ca>
Subject: Friendly Reminder - Option Selection Presentation for Automation tonight - Power and Telecom Tomorrow night
Good Morning, I hope you had a great weekend.
Just a friendly reminder –Option Selection Presentations
Automation – Tonight - at 5:30 pm – zoom link: https://bcit.zoom.us/j/99937053598?pwd=cHhrSXIwbFFTaURXeU5Db2VQa2hjZz09
Your speakers are:
Blair O’Neill Control Solutions – building automation and HVAC
Eric Hubicka EnerPro Systems – energy management systems for buildings
Brent Fast PowerTech – Advanced Transportation Lab - working on hydrogen fuel systems for fuel cells
Donnelly Williams Altec Integrated Solutions – automation systems for veneer & plywood industries and the entertainment industry (ride control systems)
Rovi Buenaventura Proax Technologies – suppliers of robotic, motion control, machine safety and PLC (Omron, ABB) systems.
Power & Telecom - Tomorrow at 5:30 – zoom link: https://bcit.zoom.us/j/93873862603?pwd=S2FyQmVHc1A3cHdwS3BEL3lPeFRsZz09
Your speakers are:
You will be receiving valuable information at these presentations, (although they are not mandatory) don’t miss them.
Have a great day,
Gundi Minato | Program Administrator – Computer and Electrical Engineering | BCIT School of Energy
2020-09-29
You can look up your marks in the marks file under Content / Course Information. You'll need to supply your ID (A0 number) and a password that is available from the Grades link on the course home page.
2020-09-29
I'll count the best of the first and second Quiz 1 attempts so there's no need to tell me if you want me to use your first attempt and there's no risk in attempting Quiz 1 again.
Note that the grade for Quiz 1 may have shown incorrectly earlier. It should be corrected now, both in the Grades page on the course web site and in the marks document.
2020-10-02
The second Quiz 1, Quiz 1b, has been marked. The marks for each of the questions and the Quiz 1 marks are in the marks document. The questions and answers (without formatting, unfortunately) are under Exams > Quiz 1b answers. Let me know if you see any problems or have any questions.
2020-10-04
Practice Quiz 2 is available. You will probably benefit from trying it.
Lab 3 is also available.
2020-10-06
Lab 1 has been marked. The marks are available in the marks document. Some mistakes that you should avoid in future:
The average mark for Lab 1 was 4.2/5 and the median was 5/5.
Comments are available in the Grades section in the text item "Lab1Comments". No marks were deducted for missing comments in the code even if a warning appears in the comments.
If you believe there was a mistake in the marking, please e-mail Andrew or myself. But first please make sure you've read:
2020-10-08
Midterm exam 1 has been marked. The min/mean/median/max were 7.2, 29, 31 and 32 respectively. The distribution of the marks is:
Some marks are fractional because question 10 (on distinguishing between requirements and guaranteed responses) was accidentally assigned 1 mark even though there were several parts to the question.
2020-10-14
A number of students have asked that the marking scheme be changed to allow for missed labs or quizzes.
Please indicate your preference or objection to a change by answering a brief survey.
2020-10-14
Lab 2 has been marked. Students mainly lost marks for:
2020-10-18
Lab 5 is available along with a sample video. This lab includes a Quartus project archive that you must download and complete. The coding guidelines have also been updated. These new guidelines must be followed starting with this lab. The due date on the Assignment folder is October 29.
2020-10-27
Lab 6 instructions and a demonstration video are available. This lab builds on the BCD up/down counter from Lab 5 but substitutes a rotary quadrature encoder for the two pushbuttons.
2020-11-04
Due to the last-minute correction to Question 1 (on converting a state transition diagram to Verilog), I computed your mark with and without including Question 1 and took the best of the two marks. The result is shown out of 10 in the marks document even in cases where Question 1 was not included in the computation.
The quiz results should show your answers, the correct answers, and your grade for each question before the above correction was applied. However, if your mark for Question 1 did not help improve your overall mark, your Quiz 4 marks will be higher than the mark shown on the LearningHub Quiz 4 page.
Also note that there were four marks for Question 1 although there were 5 separate answers, Thus each correct answer contributed 0.8 towards the Quiz 4 mark.
2020-11-10
Lab 7 is available along with a project archive and demo video. You'll need to retrieve a 4-digit secret number from the Lab7Secret field of the Grades section of the web site. Note that this a 16-bit BCD-coded value (e.g. if your number is 1234 the transmitted data must be 16'h1234, not 16'd1234).
2020-11-18
To help students who are having problems creating small and viewable video files, I've written instructions on how to check and convert video file formats.
2020-11-18
Only 3 students have completed Lab 7 thus far and I've had many requests to extend the deadline.
I suspect a significant problem with this lab is that students cannot examine the behavior of their designs. There are two solutions to this problem: simulation and logic analyzers.
Simulation is probably the best solution in this case. So I will introduce the topic of simulation in the next lecture(s) and Lab 8 will be an exercise in simulating your solution to Lab 7. This should be a realistic example of how simulation can help with hardware development.
I will also extend the deadline for Lab 7 to next Thursday (November 26). Since you will be doing Lab 8 concurrently, it will be due at the same time.
2020-11-27
Lab 9 is available. In this lab you'll make time and voltage measurements using an oscilloscope.
This lab does not have a design component so it should be relatively short. Since the due date is one day before the end of the term, you can expect the submission deadline to be strictly applied.
2020-12-08
I've uploaded a summary of learning objectives -- it's a list of what could be on the final exam.
Everything except the final exam has been marked. Please check your marks and the marking scheme and let me know if you have any questions.
Reminder: the final exam is on Friday at 9:30 AM.
2020-12-11
A couple of mistakes in the final exam marking have been fixed. Let me know if you see any others.
The unofficial final marks are available. Let me know if you have any questions.
The min/median/mean/max were 30, 47, 48 and 54 respectively for the final exam and 21/82/87/95% for the course.
The distribution of the final exam marks was:
The distribution of the unofficial final marks is:
