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ELEC2700 Computer Engineering 2

Lecturers

Dr. Steve Weller - Digital design Dr. Brian Cook - Microprocessor systems

Credit points

10

When

Semester 2, 2002

Contact

  • two 1.5-hour lectures per week
  • one lab/tutorial session per week for Digital design (avg. 1.5-hours/week)
  • one lab session per week for Microprocessor systems (avg. 1.5-hours/week)

Lectures

  • Monday 5pm-6:30pm - Digital design, Lecture theatre ES203
  • Tuesday 9am-10:30am - Microprocessor systems, Lecture theatre EF02

Laboratories and tutorials

Digital design
  • weekly sessions beginning in Week 2, in lab EE105
  • labs and tutorials (roughly) in alternating weeks
  • lab sessions are 2 hours in duration
  • tutorial sessions are of 1-hour duration
  • in weeks where a tutorial (rather than a lab) is to take place, the tutor will be present only for the first of the timetabled hours, e.g. 8-9am for a timetabled 8-10am session
  • Session times are:
    • Tuesday 11am-1pm
    • Wednesday 8-10am
    • Wednesday 2-4pm
    • Thursday 11am-1pm
    • Thursday 1-3pm
    • Friday 1-3pm
  • Lorraine Valent (EE General Office, Room EAG08) maintains the lab booking sheets
Microprocessor Systems
  • Session times for Microprocessor systems labs in EE103a will be finalised by Dr. Cook in Week 1 of Semester 2

Printed notes

Copies of printed notes used in lectures will be available from Monday, 22 July from the United Campus Bookshop. These notes also contain tutorial and laboratory question sheets, data sheets and worked solutions to most tutorial questions. All students are expected to purchase a copy of these notes. At the present time the price of these notes has not been finalised.

The following book is not a prescribed text in 2001, but is recommended for any student wishing to purchase a text to support the Digital design component of ELEC2700:

  • Digital Design with CPLD Applications and VHDL
    R.K. Dueck, Delmar Thomson Learning, 2001.
This text is available for purchase from the University Co-op Bookshop, 4 Perkins Street, Newcastle.

Assessment

  • 10% - mid-semester quiz (Digital design)
  • 15% - four laboratory submissions (Digital design)
  • 25% - software project (Microprocessor systems)
  • 50% - final examination
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