I am a teaching assistant for ECE 290: Computer Engineering I at the University of Illinois.
Discussion/Recitation Notes
Lecture notes from my discussion/recitation section will be provided below as pdf files after the class session.
- January 17 - distance, error detection & correction, the (7,4) Hamming code
- January 24 - duals, principle of duality, Boolean proofs, Boolean word problems
- January 31 - rapid review of SOP/POS forms, XOR, propagation delay, delays in adders
- February 7 - K maps, comparator
- February 14 - MSI components (muxes, demuxes, encoders, priority encoders, decoders)
- February 21 (notes from last fall) - flip-flops: next-state tables, excitation tables, building flip-flops
- February 28 (notes from last fall) - state machines: state diagrams, next-state tables, sequential circuits, timing diagrams
- March 6 - miminal design vs. window on the input, serial adder
- March 13 - tri-state buffer, bi-directional busses, register transfer
- March 27 - ALSU design, Mealy vs. Moore state machines
- April 3 - LC-3 basics: assembly instructions vs. microinstructions, memory addressing modes
- April 10 - review of microsequencing
- April 17 - immediate value notation, LEA, assembly programming examples
- April 24 - ethical tests, ACM Code of Ethics
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