Welcome to CE 100 (and CE 100L), Intro to Logic Design. In this class we study the principles of digital logic circuits and we get some design experience via labs and problem sets.
This web site is rather hastily put togetther---I had planned to craft it carefully over Spring break, but I had a bike accident and emergency splenectomy on Monday March 20, so everything is behind schedule. Until I'm well enough to come in and give lectures, Joel Ferguson and Tracy Larrabee will cover for me. They are both fine teachers, but their approach to the material may be somewhat different from mine, so please take the time to read the book carefully and do all the homework exercises. I will be glad to answer questions when I'm back on my feet.
Don't wait until lab time to read the lab assignment---you'll be wasting both your time and the TAs'.
Discussion sections will be held in the lab (104 Baskin Engineering). Dirk will hold his Wednesdays at 3:30 and Birjinder will hold his Thursdays 12-1. Watch the newsgroup for changes in times.
Note: all assignments are due at the beginning of class on the due date, so that we can discuss the homework problems right after you have struggled with them. Late homeworks will be VERY difficult for us to deal with fairly---please don't ask unless there is a real emergency. Furthermore, it is my fervent hope that we can get one-weekend turnaround on the homework (due Friday, back Monday).
There will be two midterms in class and a final exam. Satisfactory performance on the exams, the labs, and the problem sets will be necessary to pass this class.
Similarly, you must attempt all the homework. A-level performance on the exams will not compensate for many missing homeworks.
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Graded labs will be reported via email.
Late labs and problem sets will generally not be accepted, so it is better to turn in what you can get done on time than to procrastinate and hope for an extension. If you have a serious problem (medical, family, ...), please come and talk to us about extensions, incompletes, or the consequences of skipping an assignment.
Please feel free to tell either the professor or the TAs about any comments or suggestions you might have about how to improve the class. The best way to do this is by electronic mail or in the newsgroup.
If you work with someone else on a homework assignment or lab, both of you must report the collaboration on the turned-in work. If you get help from a TA on a homework or lab, this assistance must be reported in writing on the turned-in work. Unreported collaboration or assistance is cheating. It is not an adequate defense to claim that the TAs knew about it---only written acknowledgement on the work itself suffices.
You are encouraged to work collaboratively on some of the homework (reproting the collaborations!), since the act of explaining a solution helps clarify it for both the explainer and the explainee, but at least 1/2 of each assignment should be your sole work.
Labs should be done with your lab partner. Labs will generally be self-directed, but the TA will be available during scheduled hours for consultation. All working labs must be verified by the TA (or a designated lab tutor). The lab portion of your grade will be based on the quality of the lab reports, completing the assigned labs, and keeping adequate lab notebooks.
You and your lab partner will work on the labs, and you will take turns submitting the report. Your grade will depend more on the lab reports you submit. Be sure that it is clear who wrote the lab report. If your partner writes terrible reports, you may submit a report separately from your partner (though we'd prefer that you help your partner learn how to write a decent lab report), but all the collaborative work on the lab must be properly acknowledged.
Generally the lab should be demonstrated to the TA by the end of the week that it was to be done, and the report is due via email by midnight of the Friday of that week.
Each of you will individually keep your own bound lab notebook, which the TA will periodically date and sign. In the real world, such a lab notebook is essential for establishing the date of invention of a patentable idea. It may be a good idea to have two lab notebooks that you alternate weeks in, so that the TAs can take your lab notebooks home to review without delaying your continued progress. A lab notebook should be used for recording everything you do in the lab---every mistake, every insight into how things work, every measurement you make. It is not a carefully crafted end-product but working notes that you create as you work.
Any discrepancies between the final report and the lab notebook should be explained in the final report. For example, you may find that you and your partner recorded different measurements, and decide that one of you made a mistake. This discrepancy should be noted and explained in the final lab report.
You will purchase a lab kit at the beginning of the quarter with some wire and small parts. Your TAs will tell you how to do this.
You will have approximately one lab to do a week.
You will be given your lab assignment via the web by Thursday, and you
will have the next week to do the lab, and the lab report is due by
midnight of the Friday at the end of the week.
The lab report's grade is reduced by 5% for every day it is late.
Inadequate lab reports will be returned and must be resubmitted.
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