This page contains an archive of announcements which appeared on
the main course page. The items are arranged approximately
chronologically with the most recent items at the beginning.
I will have office hours on Tuesday April 28 from 1:30 to
4:30 PM.
The
final exam schedule shows the final exam on Wednesday, April
29 at 12:00 pm in MCLD 402.
Assignments 7 and 8 have been marked and can be picked up
from me until Friday April 24 at 3:15 PM. At that time they will
be placed on the assignment box (outside the VLSI lab on the 3rd
floor).
The test bench for assignment 6 is available in the file
~elec379/asg6tb.vhd or you can retrieve here: asg6tb.vhd. Sorry for not getting it out
sooner.
Here are links to the data sheets you'll need for Assignment 5:
In Assignment 5 you may assume all chips will be using a
supply voltage of 5 volts.
There are a few mistakes in the solutions to Assignment 4:
In the schematic of the EPROM design in Question 2 the 5
bits going to the address decoder should have been labeled
A[15:19].
A[15] should not be one of the address inputs to the RAM
decoder using 74LS'138s in question 4. The inputs should be
A[16] to C, A[17] to B and A[18] to A. A[19] should be connected
to both active-low inputs.
Similarly, the conditional assignment statements in the VHDL
decoder for the RAM chip-selects use too many bits. They should
read:
The mid-term exam will be held on Friday, February 27 at
8:30 AM. It will be an open-book exam (all notes, books,
calculators, etc. allowed). No computers (defined as devices
capable of compiling programs) or communication devices are
allowed. The exam will cover the use of VHDL for logic design,
and memory system design (up to and including the material on
Assignment 4).
For those who are having problems printing the Qualis quick-reference
cards in their original Postscript format, I have converted
them to PDF format:
vhdlref.pdf and
1164pkg.pdf.
Documentation for the Synopsys Design tools is available by
running the command
/usr/applic/synopsys/iview2/bin/iview.
Students who do not have an account on the ECE department's
Unix network should contact Rob Ross to get one. You
will need this account to do your first Assignment.
Welcome to ELEC 379! Please check this page regularly for
announcements about the course.