Microprocessors and Music:
An Introduction to Computing Systems

Engineering 100 (section 700), Winter 2009

Lecture notes (Chen)	Lecture notes (Hildinger)
Introduction Digital logic Stored-program computers Statistics Implementing digital logic; general-purpose computers Environment and ethics Computer science and engineering	Introduction Persuasion and proposals Oral design presentations Oral presentations; progress reports Organization and plain language Visuals Final reports

Lab assignments	Technical communications assignments
Lab 1: Introduction to Altera DE2 and Quartus Lab 2: Combinational logic and multiple modules Lab 3: Registers and memory Lab 4: Hardware encryptor/decryptor Lab 5: E100 part 1 Lab 6: E100 part 2 Lab 7: I/O devices Lab 8: Music synthesizer	Style sheet for written assignments TC 1: Introductory essay TC 2: Memo about music synthesizer TC 3: Project proposal TC 4: Oral project proposal TC 5: Progress report TC 6 and 7: Final reports Ethics presentations

Lab resources	General course resources
top.qsf (configuration data for DE2) Installing Quartus on your computer Quartus tutorial DE2 user manual Verilog tutorial and reference manual ase100 Windows Linux Mac OS (experimental) Creating images for the E100 Creating color images for the E100 Improving image quality with dithering Manipulating sound samples Fast E100 Software tuner Hexadecimal-decimal converter	Course syllabus Using computers in ENGR 100 CAEN FAQs (Unix, AFS, printing, etc.) Guide to SVN Midterm sample 1 and sample 2 Final sample 1 and sample 2

Instructors
Peter Chen 4640 CSE Erik Hildinger 323 EPB Kenneth Alfano 320 EPB Paul Kominsky 318 EPB
Joshua Smith 2431 EECS Ben Kempke 2431 EECS John Dydo 2431 EECS