ECE 3170 - Fall Term 2001 Hompage

Office Hrs : MWF 9:15-10:00 ; MW 13:30-14:30 ; or by Appt.
Office Rm : 729 EERC
Office Ph# : 487-2256
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ECE 3170 Course Meeting Times
Day	Time	Room	Type	Instructor
MON	8:05-8:55am	226 EERC	LEC	Prof. Davis
WED	8:05-8:55am	226 EERC	LEC	Prof. Davis
FRI	8:05-8:55am	226 EERC	LEC	Prof. Davis
Known Class cancelations Mon 9/3 : Labor Day Week 11/19-11/23 : Thanksgiving

ECE 3170 General Information

ECE 3170 Syllabus
- Pre-Req Exam - 5%
  Date : 8/29
- Midterm Exam #1 - 20%
  Prelim Date : 10/5
- Midterm Exam #2 - 20%
  Prelim Date : 11/9
- Final Exam - 25%
  Date : TBA
- Homework - 25%
- Class participation - 5%
Required Text : Microcomputer Engineering, 2/e Gene H. Miller, Kettering University. Copyright 1999, 544 pp. ISBN 0-13-895368-6.
Required Software : TEXaS: Test Execute and Simulate. Motorola 6502/6808/6811/6812
Jonathan W. Valvano. Copyright 2001 Brooks/Cole Publishing.

Exam #1 : Microprocessor Basics & MC68HC11 architecture
Topics outline
Given in class : 10/05/01

Exam #2 : Advanced MC68HC11 concepts & I/O Systems
Topics outline
Given in class : 11/09/01

Exam #3 : Comprehensive Microcontroller Applications, design & fabrication
Topics outline
EERC 100 Thursday December 20th, 5:15-7:15

Homework # 1
Due : 9/17/01
Solutions : Posted Mon Oct 1 09:58:39 EDT 2001
Homework # 2
Due : 10/1/01
Program documentation example
Solutions : Posted Wed Oct 3 17:30:57 EDT 2001
Homework # 3
Due : 10/17/01
recursive program Example(s)
Solutions : Posted Wed Oct 24 17:21:59 EDT 2001
Homework # 4
Due : 10/31/01
Solutions : Posted Mon Nov 5 12:01:37 EST 2001
Homework # 5
Due : 11/28/01
Solutions : Posted Sun Dec 16 20:29:20 EST 2001
PROGRAMS - not yet complete
Homework # 6
Due : 12/12/01
Solutions : Posted Sun Dec 16 20:41:56 EST 2001
PROGRAMS - not yet complete

Date Subject to change	Reference	Chapter, Pages, Specifics
Wed Sept 5th	[Miller99]	Chapter 1
Wed Sept 12th	[Miller99]	Chapter 2
	[Cohen80]	On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace
Wed Sept 26th	[Miller99]	Chapter 3
Wed Oct 3	[Miller99]	Chapter 4 & 5.1-5.3
Wed Oct 10	[Miller99]	Remainder of Chapter 5
Fri Oct 19	[Miller99]	Chapter 6.1-6.8
Wed Oct 24	[Miller99]	Chapter 6.9-6.15
Wed Nov 14	[Miller99]	Chapter 7
Fri Nov 30	[Miller99]	Chapter 8
	[Raymond00]	"The Cathedral and the Bazaar." Eric Raymond.
Wed Dec 5	[Patterson80]	"The Case for the Reduced Instruction Set Computer." Dave Patterson and Dave Ditzel, Computer Architecture News, vol. 8, no. 6, October 1980.
	[Patterson85]	"Reduced Instruction Set Computers." David Patterson, Communications of the ACM, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 8-21, January 1985.
	[Smith95]	"The Microarchitecture of Superscalar Processors", J. E. Smith and G. S. Sohi, in Proceedings of the IEEE, December 1995.
Wed Dec 12	[Kalpakjian01]	Chapter 34 : Fabrication of Microelectronic Devices