Course Description

Instructor: Gerald E. Sobelman, (612) 625-8041, sobelman@umn.edu
Instructor's Office Hours: MWF 2:30-3:20 PM, EE/CS 4-157
TA: Qingquan Zhang, zhan0511@umn.edu
Grading System: Labs 10%, Oral Presentation 10%, First Project Report 20%, Final Project Report 30%, Exam 30%

Lectures will be given on Tuesdays.
You must be registered for and attend the laboratory section on Thursdays.
Check the class web page regularly for course information and announcements.
An I grade is only given when a small part of the course work cannot be finished due to a verified illness or family emergency.
Cheating of any kind is extremely serious and may result in a course grade of F and/or other consequences.

There is a set of instructional labs. Most of the labs will require a significant amount of work and you may have to spend more than the scheduled two hours to complete the lab session each week. You should come prepared for the lab by printing out and reading the materials on the web page before each lab session. Each person in the class must complete the labs and lab reports individually, not as a team. Lab reports must be turned in to your TA one week after the scheduled time for each lab. Each report should include a half-page written description of the major tasks you did, the problems you encountered and how you overcame those problems, as well as print-outs of circuits, waveforms, synthesis reports, etc. that you generated during the lab.

Each project will be done by a team of two students. The project assignment process must be completed by Friday, February 1. The first project report (one per team) is due in class on Tuesday, March 25 and the final project report (one per team) is due on Tuesday, May 13 before 4:00 PM. Each design team will give an oral presentation on their project. The schedule for these presentations will be announced later.

The exam will be given during the last class meeting on Tuesday, May 6. It will cover the material presented in the lectures.