CS223 - Digital Design - Fall 2022

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• This is the website for CS223, Fall Semester 2022.

• Course materials, slides, assignments, etc. will be accessible through Moodle.

• If you have any questions regarding the Labs, please contact the TA(s) responsible for your specific Lab section.

• Lab TA's announced.

• Any further announcements will be posted here.
  
  

CLASS HOURS

Section 1:  Mon 15:30-17:20,   Thur 10:30-12:20  in EE-214;    Lab: Mon 08:30-12:20 in EA-Z04
Section 2:  Mon 15:30-17:20,   Thur 10:30-12:20 in EE-214;    Lab: Tue 08:30-12:20 in EA-Z04
Section 3:  Tue 10:30-12:20,    Thur 15:30-17:20 in EE-214;     Lab: Wed 08:30-12:20 in EA-Z04
Section 4:  Tue 10:30-12:20,    Thur 15:30-17:20 in EE-214;     Lab: Mon 13:30-17:20 in EA-Z04
Section 5:  Wed 10:30-12:20,   Fri 15:30, 17:20 in B-Z08;        Lab: Fri 08:30-12:20 in EA-Z04
Section 6:  Wed 10:30-12:20,   Fri 15:30, 17:20 in B-Z08;        Lab: Tue 13:30-17:20 in EA-Z04

LECTURERS

Alper Sarikan (Sec 5 and 6)                                  Shervin R. Arashloo (Sec 1, 2, 3 and 4)
Office: EA-504                                                        Office: EA-429
Office Hour: Fri 14:30                                           Office Hour: By appointment
E-mail: alper.sarikanbilkent.edu.tr                E-mail: s.rahimzadehcs.bilkent.edu.tr

Teaching Assistants

Head TA: Kaan Gönç (kaan.gonc-at-bilkent.edu.tr)
Section 1 (Monday Morning): Syed Asad Shah (asad.shah-at-bilkent.edu.tr)& Arda Sarp Yenicesu (sarp.yenicesu-at-bilkent.edu.tr)
Section 2 (Tuesday Morning): Saeed Karimi (saeed.karimi-at-bilkent.edu.tr)& Vahid Haratian (vahid.haratian-at-bilkent.edu.tr)
Section 3 (Wednesday Morning): Haya Shamim Khan Khattak (haya.khattak-at-bilkent.edu.tr)& Saeed Karimi (saeed.karimi-at-bilkent.edu.tr)
Section 4 (Monday Afternoon): Vahid Namakshenas (vahid-at-bilkent.edu.tr)& Sepehr Nourmohammadi (sepehr-at-bilkent.edu.tr)
Section 5 (Friday Morning): Vahid Namakshenas (vahid-at-bilkent.edu.tr)& Arda Sarp Yenicesu (sarp.yenicesu-at-bilkent.edu.tr)
Section 6 (Tuesday Afternoon): Barış Bilgin Şenol (bilgin.senol-at-bilkent.edu.tr)& Haya Shamim Khan Khattak (haya.khattak-at-bilkent.edu.tr)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

An introductory course in digital design, covering combinational and sequential circuits, memory and logic arrays and introduction to processor architecture, with a weekly lab. The SystemVerilog hardware description language is used throughout the semester to model and implement digital designs. Credits: 4 units

COURSE CONTENTS

Number systems, Binary numbers, Logic levels, transistors, gates, Boolean expressions. Combinational logic: Boolean algebra, simplification of Boolean expressions. Logic minimization with Karnaugh maps, don't-care conditions. Introduction to SystemVerilog. Combinational building blocks, multiplexers, decoders, propagation delays. SystemVerilog modeling. Sequential logic: SR latch, D-latch, D flip-flop, synchronous sequential circuits. Finite State Machine (FSM) design, Moore and Mealy models, state encodings, timing of sequential circuits. SystemVerilog modeling of sequential circuits. Signed numbers, Adders, ALU, comparators. Registers, register files. Counters, timers. High level state machines (HLSM), RTL design, RAM, ROM. FPGA, introduction to general purpose processor architecture.

PREREQUISITE

CS 101

TEXTBOOK & RECOMMENDED BOOK

• David Money Harris, Sarah L. Harris, Digital Design and Computer Architecture, 2nd ed. Morgan Kaufmann, 2013. (Textbook)
  
  

• Frank Vahid, Digital Design with RTL Design, VHDL and Verilog, 2nd ed. John Wiley, 2011. (Recommended)
  

Important Note:

Only original and unmarked textbooks will be allowed in the exams. If you have any notes/drawings/markings/etc. on your textbook, you will not be able to use it during the exams.

GRADING

• Labs: 15 %
  

• Project: 10 % (Report: 10%, Submission/Demo: 90%)
  

• Quizzes: 15 % (possibly 3 quizzes with/without prior notice)
  

• Midterm Exam: 30%
  

• Final Exam: 30%
  
  

FZ POLICY

Students who fail to meet the following requirements will receive a grade of FZ:

• Weighted average score of the midterm exam and quizzes (2*midterm-score + avg-quiz-score) /3: at least 40%.
  

• Average score of the labs and project (avg-lab-score + project-score)/2: at least 50%.
  

• Absent from no more than 1 Lab.
  

Only the grades until the FZ deadline will be considered while computing the average scores above. Students who receive FZ cannot attend the final exam.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)