CS 460: Class Schedule Fall 2009

Month	Day		Week	Lecture	Info
Aug	24	Mon	Week 1	Embedded Systems: Introduction
	26	Wed		VHDL: Introduction
	28	Fri		hardware Background: Combinational Logic
	31	Mon	Week 2	VHDL: conditional and loop constructs, muxs, decoders, encoders
Sep	2	Wed		Modelsim tutorial	Lab 1(A&B) assigned
	4	Fri		Behavioral VHDL
	7	Mon	Week 3	Labor Day, no class
	9	Wed		FPGA Architecture
	11	Fri		Meet Spartan 3
	14	Mon	Week 4	Software Design Flow Project Navigator (ISE) Xilinx ISE tutorial	In class ISE demo: Parity
	16	Wed		Sequential Circuits
	18	Fri		Finite State Machines A regular expression scanner	Lab 1(A&B) due
	21	Mon	Week 5	Lab 2 discussion Events, Pulses. Button and Timer Pulses Time and space patterns on the LEDs, Blinky.	Lab 2(A&B) assigned
	23	Wed		Recap and Mock test handout
	25	Fri		Mock test discussed
	28	Mon	Week 6	Midterm test one
	30	Wed		Midterm test one discussion
Oct	2	Fri		Simplke IO vs Board IO	lab 2 due Lab 3 assigned
	5	Mon	Week 7	Board IO: 7 segs, Hi, arrays, ROM tables	Lab 4 assigned
	7	Wed		VHDL Array operators, Lab 4 Discussion
	9	Fri		SVGA	Lab 3 due
	12	Mon	Week 8	EDK - microBlaze, LMB, OPB, FSL
	14	Wed		Bus protocol concepts
	16	Fri		Highschool Day: class cancelled
	19	Mon	Week 9	A first EDK architecture: "Hello world" EDK tutorial
	21	Wed		EDK, GPIO, PCores, FSL-Led peripheral
	23	Fri		Random Number generators using LFSRs
	26	Mon	Week 10	Polling, Interrupts, Event Handlers	Lab 5 assigned
	28	Wed		Event Handler Design EDK version of 60 minutes using Event Handler
	30	Fri		Game design: It's ART!! (etch a sketch) an overview of game designs
Nov	2	Mon	Week 11	Brownian Mouse: an SVGA refresh plus mouse example	Lab 4 due Lab 6 assigned
	4	Wed		Fast Asynchronous Memory
	6	Fri		Board Games and MiniMax Search
	9	Mon	Week 12	Connect four and Alpha-Beta Search
	11	Wed		Connect four: EDK implementation
	13	Fri		Mock midterm 2 handout	Lab 5 due
	16	Mon	Week 13	Mock midterm 2 discussion
	18	Wed		Midterm test two: material Chapters 9 to 13 of the notes
	20	Fri		Lab 6a,b due. present your game proposal to Wim
	23	Mon	Week 14	THANKS
	25	Wed		GIVING
	27	Fri		BREAK !!
	30	Mon	Week 15	Test two discussion
Dec	2	Wed		HPEC 1: SA-C
	4	Fri		HPEC 2: SRC and MAP-C
	7	M2F	Project Week	Work on your project
	14	M2F	Finals Week	Project (Lab 6) due