Understanding and mastering fundamentals of digital systems

• Number representations and computer arithmetic
• Combinational logic, Quine McCluskey, KV-diagrams, BDDs
• Moore and Mealy machines

Learning activities during this course will comprise of:
- classroom lectures
- classroom assignments which will be graded and discussed during the practical exercises part of this course
- two exams

Please adress your questions to: gds[at]auto.tuwien.ac.at

All necessary information will be provided in the TUWEL-course of this lecture.

Lectures:

04. Oct.: Preliminary Discussion(10:00-11:30, EI8)
06. Oct.: L1 (10:00-12:00, AudiMax)
07. Oct.: L2 (10:00-12:00 AudiMax)
11. Oct.: L3 (10:00-11:00, AudiMax)
13. Oct.: L4 (10:00-12:00, AudiMax)
14. Oct.: L5 (10:00-12:00, AudiMax)
18. Oct.: L6 (10:00-11:00, AudiMax)
25. Okt.: L7 (10:15-11:45, EI8)
08. Nov.: L8 (10:15-11:45, EI8)
22. Nov.: L9 (10:15-11:45, EI8)

The labs take place on the following days: 21.10., 28.10., 18.11., 02.12.; the time depends on the chosen lab group.

You have to apply for the course and for one of the lab groups. Both registrations are mandatory to attend the course!

Note: There are 4 assignments with 10 exercises each. For each assignment there will be a dedicated lab lesson. Before each lesson you have to mark in TUWEL which exercises you have solved and you can therefore present in the lab. You have to solve at least 65% of the exercises. Further information will be provided in the first lecture.

You have to present your solved exercises in your designated lab group. It is not possible to present your assignments in another lab group to which you are not assigned to!

Attention: Effective for everybody who registered for Computer Science/Business Informatics for the first time: You have to complete the "Studieneingangsgespräche (STEG)" until October 7th 2011 to register for this course. For details see STEG. (Due to technical reasons it takes up to two workdays after completion of the “Studieneingangsgespräch” to be able to register for the course.)

In order to pass the course successfully it is necessary to solve at least 65% of all assigned examples and to be able to present them during the lab. Furthermore there will be two mandatory written exams throughout the term. One of the two exams may be repeated at the end of the term.