EECS 270

Handouts

• Axioms of logic, a brief overview.
• Quine-McCluskey - by Dr. Steven Nowick

Lecture recordings

Lecture notes

• 1. Introduction to Combinational Logic. This should get us through the first 3 lectures.
• 1a. Finishing Combinational Logic. Tri-state devices, Max terms, some sample problems.
• 2. Sequential Logic Basics. How to build sequential logic devices and how to use them in state machines.
• 3. Minimization. Kmaps etc., state minimization.
  • You may find this slideshow helpful. You can ignore it if you wish.
• 4. Datapath and Memories. Memories, controlling data paths.
• 5. Transistors. Includes a bit on levels of abstraction.
• Midterm exam review
• Faster Adders. CLA adders.
• Tabular minimization. QM
• Mealy Machines and a brief introduction to a computer Mealy machines, one-bus computer.
• Implementation issues including FPGA stuff. Custom logic, Gate array, Standard cells, FPGAs and more! Slides.
• SPI and ECC. Slides.
• More ECC, class summary, review questions.

Exam Solutions

• Quiz 1 (ans)
• Quiz 2 (ans)
• Exam 1 (Open) (Closed) (ans)
• Quiz 3 (ans)
• Quiz 4 (ans)
• Quiz 5 (ans)
• Final (ans)

Old exams and quizes

• The Winter and Fall have 2 midterms so they cover different things than our midterm. The Fall 2009 midterms are both older and jointly written, so coverage is fairly different in places.
• The older ones and really old practice exams are probably not all that useful other than being good practice.

Midterms:

• Fall 2020 Midterm 1 Answers
• Fall 2020 Midterm 2 Answers
• Winter 2017 midterm 1, ans
• Fall 2014 midterm 1 (ans)
• Fall 2009 midterm 1 (ans)
• Fall 2009 midterm 2 (ans)
• Winter 2017 midterm 2, ans
• Fall 2014 midterm 2 (ans)
• Spring 2014 (ans)
• Spring 2013 (ans)
• Spring 2012 (ans) -- Note, this shows up as a group assignment not an exam. That's because I gave the exam as a group assignment after they had it as an exam.
• Spring 2011 (ans)
• Practice exam. No answers will be supplied (you can ask the instructor though).
  
• Spring 05 Exam 1 (no solutions available!)
• Spring 07 Exam 1 (no solutions available!)
• Practice Exam and solution
• Another exam's solutions
• Practice Exam and solution
• Another exam solution

Final Exam:

Very few of these have solutions available. (I generally don't write up a formal solution for a final exam).

• Fall 2020 Final Version 1 Answers, Fall 2020 Final Version 2 Answers, Fall 2020 Final Versions 3/4 Answers
• Winter 2017 Final, ans
• Spring 2014 Final
• Spring 2012 Final
• Spring 2011 Final
• Fall 09 Final (solution) -- I didn't write this one...
• Spring 07 Final
• Spring 05 Final
• Old practice final
• Old Practice final #2 and its solution from a previous semester.

Quizes

• Quiz 1: Spring 2005, Spring 2007, Spring 2011(ans), Spring 2012(ans). Spring 2013(ans). Spring 2014(ans).
• Quiz 2: Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2007, Spring 2011(ans). Spring 2012 Spring 2013(ans). Spring 2014(ans).
• Quiz1 and Quiz2 answers Spring 07
• Quiz 3: Spring 2004, Spring 2005 Spring 2007 (ans) Spring 2011 answers Spring 2012 Spring 2013(ans).
• Quiz 4: Spring 2004, Spring 2005 Spring 2007 (ans) Spring 2011 answers Spring 2012 Spring 2013 ans. Spring 2014.
• Quiz 5: Spring 2004, Spring 2005 Spring 2007 (ans) Spring 2011 answers Spring 2012 Spring 2014.

Suggested references

• Wakerly, Digital Design -- Any edition. A moderate textbook, but a very good reference.
• Tinder, R. F., Engineering Digital Design, 2d ed. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1999.
• Mano, M. M., and Kime, C. R., Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals, 2d ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2001.