Table of Contents
Course Outline
The course outline is a guideline to topics that will be discussed in the course, and when they will be discussed:
Week 1 (Jan 5 - 9)
Chapter 1: Introduction to DSP and VSLI
Week 2 (Jan 12 - 16)
Chapter 2: Binary Arithmetic
Weeks 3 - 4 (Jan 19 - 30)
Quiz 1 on Jan 19 for Chapter 2 (1:00-1:15pm)
Chapter 3: Arithmetic Circuits
Project Task 1 starts on Jan. 28 (due on Feb. 11)
Weeks 5 - 6 (Feb 2 - 13)
Chapter 4: Digital Filter
Chapter 5: Iterative Bound
Quiz 2 on Feb. 11 for Chapter 4 (1:00-1:15pm)
Project Task 2 starts on Feb. 11 (due on Mar 4).
Reading Week 7 (Feb 14-20)
Week 8 Midterm (Feb 23-27)
No class on Feb 23
Midterm on Feb 25, from 1:00-2:15pm, at SC 219
Week 9 (Mar 2-6)
Chapter 5: Iterative Bound
Project Task 3 starts on Mar 4 (due on Mar 30)
Weeks 10 - 11 (Mar 9 - 20)
Quiz 3 for Chapter 5 on Mar 11 (1:00-1:15pm)
Chapter 6: Pipelining and parallel processing
Weeks 12 - 13 (Mar 23 - Apr 3)
Quiz 4 for Chapter 6 on Mar 25 (1:00-1:15pm)
Chapter 7: Retiming
Chapter 8: Folding
Final Exam
TBD