Department of Electrical and
ECE/Comp Sci
352 Digital System Fundamentals
COURSE CONDUCT
Spring 2004
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The text for the course is the Third Edition of Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals by M. M. Mano and C. R. Kime. In addition, there is a packet of required course materials to be purchased at Bob's Copy Shop.
You are responsible for all assigned sections in the text and course materials and all lecture content unless specified otherwise by the instructor. If you miss a class, it is your responsibility to obtain handouts and other information given on the days you missed. Handouts are often available on your section's website.
Use of the
There will be a project requiring the use
of two Mentor Graphics computer-aided design (CAD) tools, Design Architect
and QuickSim. These tools run on UNIX workstations located in Room 175,
Computer-Aided Engineering,
To get a CAE Unix/PC account for the very first time, go to CAE building, pick up a yellow handout "Getting a CAE Account" from CAE room 172. Create your new account by following the direction given on the handout, and it will simulatneoulsy create both Unix and PC account with the same login name and password for both accounts.
New user's guide Brief introductory sessions to CAE Unix systems are offered by CAE early in the semester. You should attend a session if you have not used CAE or UNIX systems before. See announcements at CAE for further information; we will also try to provide some info on these sessions in class. You must execute newuser procedures on a Unix workstation at a CAE site early in the semester so that you are ready for the tutorial and assignments.
Another CAD tool, CAFÉ, we will be using in this course. CAFE runs on both Unix and NT workstations at CAE. The CAFE manual is included in the packet of course materials at Bob's Copy Shop; in addition, a self-instruction tutorial for CAFE will be posted on the course websites.
Early in the semester, we will run mandatory tutorial sessions on weekday afternoons/evenings and Saturday on Design Architect and QuickSim. You will need to sign up for a particular tutorial session on sign-up sheets passed around in class.
There are two types of assignments in this course: homework assignments and projects. Homework assignments will be given bi-weekly, and need not be submitted. The purpose is to help you learn the materials studied during this period. Homework solutions will be made available on the ECE/CS 352 section websites. You are encouraged to discuss homework with your classmates, but to do the work yourself to best prepare you for the quizzes, projects, and the final. To maximize the benefit, try to work out the problems without checking the solutions first.
There are two projects that require you to use
computer-aided design (CAD) tools. These projects are to be submitted and
will be graded. The purpose of projects is to ensure that you develop the
basic knowledge and skills in using modern CAD tools for digital system
analysis and design. The first project is an individual project.
Students are to do their own work but may consult with others on problem
clarification and CAD tool use. The second project is a team project performed
by a team of two persons and is not to involve collaboration with other teams
beyond problem clarification and CAD tool use. You will be given instruction on
how to share
There will be Help Sessions available in B555 Engineering Hall the week before the project due date. To be guaranteed a workstation during a help session, prior sign-up is necessary and sign-up is permitted for only one help session for each project. Unclaimed workstations will be available for project work on a first come-first serve basis 20 minutes after the beginning of a help session.
There are four quizzes and one final examination in this course. The quizzes and final are closed book examinations with no calculators or other personal computation devices allowed. The dates for these quizzes and the final exam are listed on the course outline. Quizzes will be held during the evenings in the rooms specified on the Course Outline. The times for quizzes have been chosen to avoid conflicts with other activities (exams and labs) held in the evenings. It is your responsibility to attend all quizzes. Missing a quiz is equivalent to forfeiting a large part of your grade. If you miss a quiz, no make-up quiz will be given. Only in most extraordinary situations will a make-up quiz be given, provided the request is made prior to the quiz, and any documentation requested that substantiates the reasons for missing the quiz is provided.
Questions regarding the grading of quizzes must be written on the cover of the quiz and returned to the instructor for reconsideration on the same day the quiz is returned to the student.
Please note the time of the Final Exam on the Course Outline and do not, for example, schedule travel that will not permit you to take the Final at that time. Conflict with your travel schedule is not an acceptable excuse for requesting an alternate final exam. Early makeup finals will not be given.
The course grade will be determined as listed in the course description.
Optional Discussion Sessions: Teaching assistants will conduct optional discussion sessions - We will make all efforts that both lecture sections are in sync with each other and you may able to attend either of the discussion sessions. However, to avoid overloading of one discussion session over the other, we suggest that the students enrolled for Lecture 1 (Schulte) attend the Discussion session 301 and those enrolled for Lecture 2 (Wang) attend the Discussion session 302.Office Hours: If you have questions on the course material, you may contact your instructor or any teaching assistant for consultation during office hours. All TA office hours will be in B555 Engineering Hall.
E-Mail
For technical questions, you are to e-mail to ece352@cae.wisc.edu. Please use only this email address for all technical questions. For administrative questions, e-mail to your section instructor.
Please try to get answers before serious difficulties in your understanding of course material arise. In particular, it is much better to get your questions answered before a quiz rather than after!
If you require special alternative testing arrangements,
you need to seek consultation from the
In case you have problem keeping up with the progress of
this course, please talk to your instructor. If you have problems in keeping up
with several courses, you may want to talk with your advisor or with a
counselor in
Please understand that all the work you submit in the
course on projects and exams is expected to be your own (except for work by the
other team member on Project 2). Evidence indicating copying or inappropriate collaboration
as well as other forms of academic misconduct will be dealt with as appropriate
under the UW academic misconduct rules. If you have questions, please refer to http://www.wisc.edu/students/amsum.htm
or seek clarification from your instructor.