Announcements

11/17. Quizzes 9 and 10 are graded and available for pick-up in the usual place. Q9 7.2 (1.8), Q10 7.8 (1.4). The distribution of adjusted scores for everyone on the class after 10 quizzes is available.

10/31. Quiz 8 is graded and available for pick-up in the usual place. Q8 7.1 (2.0).

10/29. A summary of the division iteration lecture is now available.

10/28. For the curious, here is a distribution of adjusted scores for everyone in the class for quizzes 1-7 (normalized to 10). The way this was computed for each student was to compute the average quiz score after dropping the lowest two scores. Each bar is one student. You can compute your own and figure out where you are on this chart. :)

10/28. Quiz 7 is graded and available for pick-up in 314 Rhodes. Q7 7.38 (1.65)

10/27. Abin Thomas has found a nice page that demonstrates floating point addition/subtraction.

10/27. All quizzes are graded and available for pick-up in 314 Rhodes. Since a few have asked, here are means (and standard deviations) for each quiz: Q1 4.5 (2.9), Q2 8.8 (2.7), Q3 5.9 (2.2), Q4 6.0 (2.4), Q5 6.5 (3.0), Q6 8.0 (2.0) (using round to nearest even :) )

10/19. Cavium networks (see posting below) will be on campus October 29. You can register on their web site if you are interested in interviewing, or email your resume to Jaye.Girouard AT caviumnetworks.com.

10/14. Office hours have been updated to 11:15-12 on Mondays and 11-12 on Tuesdays to accomodate requests for times on other days.

10/9. A (correct) description of the Booth encoded multiplication example from class is now available.

10/1. There will be no make-up class on Thursday. We will find another time on Monday to schedule the make-up class.

9/29. Two pages showing pictures of various adder topologies are available.

9/25. There is an interesting paper comparing different topologies of adders for energy and delay published in ARITH18.

9/22. Office hours moved to 11:15am.

9/3. I received a job posting from Cavium Networks. If you are interested, they will be on campus next week.

9/3. The class schedule has been updated. There will be a lecture on Thursday September 4, from 6:30-7:30pm in 403 Phillips. Note that there will be a 10 minute quiz at the beginning of class.

9/3. For reference, here are sections from the book CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuit and Systems Perspective by Neil Weste and David Harris (3rd edition) that I will assume that everyone in the class knows well:

• Section 1.4 (CMOS Logic)
• Section 4.2 (Delay Estimation), 4.3 (Logical Effort and Transistor Sizing)
• Section 6.2 (Circuit Families), 7.2 (Sequencing Static Circuits), 7.5 (Sequencing Dynamic Circuits), 7.7 (Wave Pipelining)

9/2. Tentative class schedule for the semester is available. Note that this will be adjusted depending on the pace at which material is covered during the semester.