Handout #1

Course Information ( PDF )

Handout #2

Syllabus ( PDF )

Handout #3

Homework, Project and Exam Schedule ( PDF )

Handout #4

Questionnaire ( PDF )

Handout #5

The Quine-McCluskey Method ( PDF )

Handout #6

Homework #1 ( PDF )

Handout #7

Iterative Circuits (hardcopy only, distributed in class)*

Handout #8

Homework #2 ( PDF )

Handout #9

Homework #1 solutions (distributed in class)*

Handout #10

FSM Partitioning (hardcopy only, distributed in class)*

Handout #11

Binary Addition, Part 1 (hardcopy only, distributed in class)*

Handout #12

Binary Addition, Part 2 (hardcopy only, distributed in class)*

Handout #13

Carry Lookahead Adders: Detailed Implementation ( PDF )

Handout #14

Conditional Sum Adders: Detailed Implementation ( PDF )

Handout #15

Homework #3 ( PDF )

Handout #16

Advanced Adders (Brunvand handout -- REVISED VERSION [47 pages]) ( PDF )

Handout #17

Binary Addition, Part 3 (hardcopy only, distributed in class)*

Handout #18

Combinational Multipliers - (hardcopy only, distributed in class)*

Handout #19

Error Detection and Correction - (hardcopy only, distributed in class)*

Handout #20

Homework # 2 solutions - (hardcopy only, distributed in class)*

Handout #21

Low-Power Bus Encoding
M.R. Stan and W.P. Burleson, "Bus Invert Coding for Low-Power I/O",
IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, v. 3:1, March 1995 (pp. 49-58) ( PDF )

Handout #22

Low-Power Logic Optimization
M. Alidina, J. Monteiro, S. Devadas, A. Ghosh and M. Papaefthymiou,
"Precomputation-Based Sequential Logic Optimization for Low Power",
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, Nov. 1994, pp. 74-81. ( PDF )

Handout #23

Homework #4 ( PDF )

Handout #24

Recent Advances in Designing Clockless Digital Systems ( PDF )

Handout #25

Asynchronous Controllers: overview (part 1) ( PDF )

Handout #26

Asynchronous Controllers: Minimalist tutorial (part 2) ( PDF )

Handout #27

HW #3 solutions (hardcopy only, distributed in class)*

Handout #28

Mastipuram/Wee article, 'Soft Errors' Impact on System Reliability ( PDF )

Handout #29

(optional)

Soft Errors in Advanced Computer Systems
R. Baumann, IEEE Design and Test of Computers, May/June 2005, pp. 258-266. ( PDF )

Handout #30

(optional)

Robust System Design with Built-In Soft-Error Resilience
S. Mitra, N. Seifert, M. Zhang, Q. Shi and K.S. Kim, IEEE Computer Magazine, February 2005, pp. 43-52. ( PDF )

Handout #31

Midterm. Hardcopy only (Distributed in class)

Handout #32

Homework #5 ( PDF )

Handout #33

RTL Design (excerpts) (hardcopy only)*

Handout #34

Introduction to RTL Design ( PDF )

Handout #35

Mini-Project: Combinational Components (hardcopy only)*

Handout #36

Mini-Project: Sequential Components (hardcopy only)*

Handout #37

Mini-Project: an Introduction to RTL Design ( PDF )

Handout #38

HW#4 Solutions (hardcopy only)*

Handout #39

Midterm Solutions (hardcopy only)*

Handout #40

Introduction to Mousetrap Asynchronous Pipelines ( PDF )