Instructor: Bob Rinker Office: JEB 235 Email: rinker@cs.uidaho.edu Phone: (208)885-7378 Office Hours (Fall 2014):
3:30 M, 12:30 TW, 11:30 Th, or by appointment, or stop in
anytime my door is open!
Catalog Description:
CS150 - Digital logic and digital systems, machine-level representation of
data, assembly-level machine organization, memory system organization and
architecture, interfacing and communication, functional organization,
multiprocessing and alternative architectures. Prereq: CS 120
Syllabus:
Downloadable from here
ps
or
pdf
).
Policy on Academic Honesty and Cheating - your continued registration in this
Grading:
Your grade will be calculated using the following percentages:
Two mid-semester exams
30%
Final exam (comprehensive)
20%
Quizzes
15%
Homework/Programming Assignments
35%
Total
100%
The letter grade you receive from the course will be determined as follows:
90%-100%
A
89.9%-80%
B
79.9%-70%
C
69.9%-60%
D
Below 60%
F
The instructor reserves the right to adjust these percentages lower if
deemed necessary.
Announcements
Any announcements for the class will be posted here
Final Exam information: The final exam will be a take-home exam. You can pick it
up any day monday-thursday between 1-3 pm (I have a meeting starting at 2:30
thursday, so you will need to pick it up by then if you wait til thursday).
It will then be due the following day by 5:00pm.
Notes and Handouts:
Will appear here when needed in class.
- Slides on binary arithmetic
(
pdf
or
ps
)
- Slides on floating point format
(
pdf
or
ps
)
- Slides on Boolean algebra
(
pdf
or
ps
)
- Slides on logic gates
(
pdf
or
ps
)
- Slides on Sequential circuits and state machines
(
pdf
or
ps
)
- Some more problems on sequential circuits
(
pdf
or
ps
)
- Slides on computer architecture
(
pdf
or
ps
)
- The AVR Processor diagram (revised)
(
pdf
or
ps
)
- The AVR Instruction Subset (revised)
(
pdf
or
ps
)
Assignments:
Will appear here sometime after they have been assigned
- Assignment #1
(
pdf
or
ps
), Due September 10
- Assignment #2
(
pdf
or
ps
), Due September 12
- Assignment #3
(
pdf
or
ps
), Due September 26
- Assignment #4
(
pdf
or
ps
), Due October 13
- Assignment #5
(
pdf
or
ps
), Due October 29
- Assignment #6
(
pdf
or
ps
), Due November 10
- Assignment #7
(
pdf
or
ps
), Due December 5
- Assignment #8
(
pdf
or
ps
), Due December 8
The example AVR (not Arduino) example we discussed in class is available
here. The system
apparently won't let me post a shell script, so I have included the script as
a comment in the C example. Sorry for the inconvenience.
A glossary of terms is available
here. Links to other useful information
The Atmel AVR Instruction Set document is
here
Specifics on the Atmega 328p (Arduino Processor) are available
here.
A link to the AVR libc page is
here
An ASCII code chart
(
pdf
or
ps
)
A decent vi editor Cheat Sheet
(pdf
or
ps)
Unix tutorial (from the University of Edinburgh)
here.