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Digital Logic Design

This document provides an overview of the ELEC 326: Digital Logic Design course. It introduces the instructor, Kartik Mohanram, and provides information about administrative details like office hours, the required textbook, course format, projects, exams, and assignments. The course will involve homework assignments, a group project, and three exams. Students will have access to a lab and be issued keys. Deadlines are firm and participation is expected in lectures.

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Digital Logic Design

This document provides an overview of the ELEC 326: Digital Logic Design course. It introduces the instructor, Kartik Mohanram, and provides information about administrative details like office hours, the required textbook, course format, projects, exams, and assignments. The course will involve homework assignments, a group project, and three exams. Students will have access to a lab and be issued keys. Deadlines are firm and participation is expected in lectures.

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ELEC 326: Digital Logic Design

Kartik Mohanram
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rice University

Welcome

„ ELEC 326: Digital Logic Design


„ ELEC 220 pre-requisite
„ Instructor
„ Kartik Mohanram
„ www.ece.rice.edu/~kmram
„ ELEC 326 – www.ece.rice.edu/~kmram/elec326
„ Owlspace?
„ Mailing list
„ Will be setup once I obtain final roster
„ Emails to class will be archived on web-page

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Administrivia, etc.

„ Office hours
„ 2:00pm to 3:00pm in DH 3029 on Tue and Thu
„ By appointment – email works best
„ Stop by after 2:00pm and take your chances
„ Course information handout will be ready next
class, following our discussions today
„ Text-book: Digital Design and Computer
Architecture by David Harris and Sarah Harris
„ http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Design-Computer-
Architecture-Harris/dp/0123704979
„ Buy online (cheaper)
„ I will help till your copy arrives

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Textbook

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Course format

„ Homework assignments (6): 15%


„ Supported by tutorial sessions in the evenings
„ Please see course schedule for room assignments
„ Usually Tue+Wed+Thu from 7:30-9:30pm
„ Project: 15%
„ Three exams: 60%
„ Comprehensive final
„ Two/three self-scheduled (gasp!) vivas: 10%

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Honor code

„ Always write and sign the honor code on


test/homeworks
„ http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~honor/
„ Homework, tests, projects, and solutions from
previous offerings of this course are off limits,
under the honor code
„ I will take violations very seriously
„ When in doubt, please ask!

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Assistants

„ TA for the class


„ Mihir Choudhury ([email protected])
„ Will introduce him next class
„ Course assistants: To be decided

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Project

„ Lab – AL A124
„ All of you will be issued a key in next 2-3 weeks
„ 3 stages with deadlines
„ Groups of 2-3, assigned randomly for stages 1 and 2
„ Hope to also kick-off AMD-sponsored design
contest that is independent of project
„ Take your design further, met some desirable
metrics that real-world designers seek
„ Negotiations underway

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Deadlines are firm

„ Homework due a week from when handed out


„ Due by 5pm in my office on Fridays
„ No extensions
„ Project demos are due on specified dates per the
course schedule

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Exams

„ Late September (28th), late November (22nd)


„ Flexible early scheduling
„ Comprehensive final
„ All three are timed, first two are in-class

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Class participation

„ Lecture slides will be handed out


„ But, I will lecture mainly off the board
„ You are expected to
„ Be familiar with material already covered

„ Glance over material to be covered

„ Participation includes
„ Answering questions
„ Pop quizzes
„ Solving problems on the board
„ And any other challenges that I can think of

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Assignments

„ HW0 out today


„ Due by 5pm tomorrow in my office
„ Sign-up sheet circulating
„ ELEC 220 material
„ Review chapters 1-4

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Before we digress

„ Pet peeve: Email expectations


„ Questions? Anything that I (may) have missed?

„ Time to digress
„ B. Tech., IIT Bombay, EE, 1998
„ Ph.D., UT Austin, ECE, 2003
„ Fault-tolerant computing, CAD for VLSI, etc.

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