If you would like to see some of at the lectures and notes that the textbook
authors used in Mississippi State, visit
the ECE 3724 video lecture page.
At the first of the semester there will be a lot of blank entries in this
schedule. As the semester progresses, they will be filled in.
However, the
planned topics page for this course
contains a listing
of the topics that will be covered during the semester.
| Date |
Topic |
| Aug 18 |
Introduction,
Programming expectations,
& Positive binary
numbers (pp. 4-8)
|
| Aug 20 |
Negative binary
numbers and arithmetic operations (pp. 4-8, 140-145)
|
| Aug 25 |
Logic Design
|
| Aug 27 |
Implementation and Opitimization,
float and char,
MUX
&
ALU
|
| Sept 1 |
Design of Finite State Machines
& Implementation of flipflops
|
| Sept 3 |
| Sept 8 |
Useful modules
& Memories
|
| Sept 10 |
data path examples of
Multiplication &
Best of n,
MSU ECE 3724 chapter 2
implemented as
FSM
(Rebecca Bruce version) &
computer
|
| Sept 15 |
Upcoming exam 1,
homework review and
getting ready for MIPS
|
| Sept 17 |
Exam 1 |
| Sept 22 |
Programming
the MIPS32 in assembly and machine language
— expression evaluation |
| Sept 24 |
| Sept 29 |
Programming
the MIPS32 in assembly and machine language
— control structures
|
| Oct 1 |
Programming
the MIPS32 in assembly and machine language
— instruction encoding
|
| Oct 8 |
Homework 5
— a serious tester
& a System Verilog implementation
and pointers & arrays
(Chapter 6)
|
| Oct 13 |
pointers & arrays
|
| Oct 15 |
multi-dimensional arrays,
odd stuff in C,
linked lists in C
|
| Oct 20 |
functions
|
| Oct 22 |
Chapter 8
and a little about the next lab
|
| Oct 27 |
| Oct 29 |
stdint.h &
Chapter 9
|
| Nov 3 |
I2C (Chapter 10)
|
| Nov 5 |
Exam 2 preview |
| Nov 10 |
Exam 2 |
| Nov 12 |
Exam 2,
Interrupts, UART and I2C &
Remaining homework
|
| Nov 17 |
I2C
bus specification &
Analog
|
| Nov 19 |
the harder topics
& class drama
& final exam review
|
| Nov 24 |
| Dec 8 |
Final Exam from 11:30 AM to 2:00 PM |