CSC 480 Syllabus

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What

Welcome to CSC 480/580 "Digital Logic and Computer Design". The North Central College web site description is:

Same as: CSC 580.) Computer organization from basic digital logic to complete systems. Analysis and design of combinational and sequential networks. Organization of memory, registers, ALU, and control units. Laboratory. Prerequisites: CSC 220, CSC 230. Offered: 2001-02.

I would add to this an introduction into Hardware Description Languages (HDLs) and synthesis and simulation using HDLs.

Our textbook is "Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals, Third Edition" by Mano & Kime. ISBN is 0-13-140539-X. It's a brand new edition and is very shiny. The publisher's web site is www.prenhall.com/mano


When and where

We'll meet at 220 Science Building on Tuesday and Thursday nights from 6:30 to 8:20 pm. Labs will be from 8:30 to 10:30 Thursday nights right after class.


Who

My name is Bill Krieger. I am a part-time professor in the Computer Science department at North Central. I have a BS in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a MS in computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago .

Most of my logic design experience came co-founding a company called Synopsys. We wrote software that automated the logic design process. Some of Synopsys' software is included on the CD that is packaged with our text.

My office is located at 309 Carnegie. My office hours are Tuesday and Thursday 5:30 to 6:30 pm (an hour before class) or other times by appointment.

Please contact me via email: wtkrieger@noctrl.edu


Why

Grades will be comprised of:

Item Points
Homework 20
Lab 10
Midterm exam 30
Final exam 40
Total   100

Graduate students take the 580 flavor of the course will be assigned an extra homework project.

Letter grades will be determined using the North Central standard:

A  (93-100%) B+ (87-89%) C+ (77-79%) D (60-69%)
A- (90- 92%) B  (83-86%) C  (73-76%) F ( 0-59%)
  B- (80-82%) C- (70-72%)