WELCOME TO INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC DESIGN.
Welcome to CE 100 (and CE 100L), Intro to Logic Design. In this class we study the principles of digital logic circuits and we get some design experience via labs and problem sets.
You should do the reading before I lecture on it; you should do the assignment before I test you on it. There will be a quiz every Friday (Including the first Friday that we meet).
Steve Petersen has written several useful notes about how to survive lab classes and taking lab notes.
Other useful links for lab topics:
In addition, sometimes students want to review analog circuits or to study them for the first time. I think Schaum's Outlines are a good way to do it. Two good titles are "Schaum's Outline of Basic Circuit Analysis," and the more rigorous, "Schaum's Outline of Electric Circuits." You can find them both at McGraw-Hill or Amazon.com.
I thought this tutorial on electrical concepts was pretty good.
Each week there is one lab due at midnight on Friday, and one quiz during class on Friday. Ideally, the quiz topic and what was covered in lab will be related. There will be homework assigned every week, upon which the next quiz will be based. Your homework can be done collaboratively, as long as you each turn in your homework in your own writing (or typing), and you cite each person with whom you worked. The homework for a week will have a lot to do with that week's quiz: the quiz on that homework may well include problems from that homework set, and the homework set is designed to help you master the material and thus ace the quizzes. You will turn in your labs and receive your lab grades via email.
I will make handouts and assignments available on line via the web page whenever possible, (ucsc.class.cmpe100). Late labs will be severely downgraded, but labs demonstrated early will receive extra credit.
For those opting for a letter grade: the quizzes sets will count 45% of your grade, the final 35%, and your lab performance, 10%. You will get to drop your lowest quiz score (any quiz you miss, you will get a zero on). I expect every student will need to miss a class or two over the quarter, but plan carefully You can't take any quizzes before or after the scheduled lecture time, and I do not give makeup quizzes. If you have a truly exceptional reason for needing to miss a quiz, talk to me (exceptional reasons are things like, being in jail, being in court, delivering a child, accepting an academy award, etc.) If you fail the lab for this course, you will automatically also fail the lecture.
Please feel free to tell either the professor or the TAs about any comments or suggestions you might have about how to improve the class. The best way to do this is by electronic mail.
I hate to talk about cheating, because I like to assume there will be none, but the board office says I must: If the TAs or I find conclusive evidence that you have cheated on a quiz, a lab, or an exam, you will fail that quiz, lab, or exam. It will not be possible to pass this course with a grade of 0 the final exam. If I find conclusive evidence that you have purposely damaged lab equipment, thus depriving your fellow students of access to valuable equipment, you will fail the lecture and the lab, and I will pursue it with the campus police, the department, and your college provost.
Labs should be done with your lab partner. Labs will generally be self-directed, but the TA will be available during scheduled hours for consultation. Every week, a different member of a lab pair will be responsible for the official write up for that week, but each of you must be present when you demo your lab to your TA, and she will ask you questions. It is possible for one lab member to receive credit for the lab and the other to not, based on your performance during lab check-off. Your lab grade will be based on the quality of the lab reports, your lab check-off, and a final exam for the lab. Note that your lab grade will depend more on the lab reports you submit, so make sure it is clear who wrote each week's report. The final for CE 100L will be given at the time of the final for the CE 100.
If the TAs have evidence that a lab pair turns in a report copied from some other uncredited source, they will bring the evidence to me, and we may proceed with formal charges of cheating via contacting the provost of your college. If you are formally charged with cheating, and found to be doing so, you will receive a F or NP in the lab and the lecture, and it will be formally noted in your SOE record. Two incidents of cheating cause automatic expulsion from any SOE major.
You may have to purchase your own wire and small parts for some of the labs. Your TAs will tell you how to do this.
You will have one lab to do a week. You will be given your lab assignment via the web by Thursday, and you will have the next week to do the lab, and the lab report is due by midnight of the Friday at the end of the week. The lab report's grade is reduced by 5% for every day it is late down to 40% credit. Inadequate lab reports will be returned and must be resubmitted. Your TA being unable to read your report counts as an inadequate report.
