Subject: questions re past exams Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 17:48:29 -0700 From: Duncan Elliott Organization: ECE, University of Alberta To: Tyler Brandon , Noah Aklilu Newsgroups: ualberta.courses.ee.552 Thold is not used in latency calculations. It plays a major role in a different race condition. The T network and Pi network were discussed in class. Basically, you can use RC/2 as a conservative estimate of propagation delay through a distributed RC network. regards -- Duncan Elliott Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Assistant Professor 238 Civil/Electrical Building elliott@ee.ualberta.ca University of Alberta http://www.ee.ualberta.ca/~elliott/ Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2G7 phone 403-492-5357 fax 403-492-1811 Subject: EE552 course newsgroup Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 14:43:14 -0600 From: Duncan Elliott Organization: ECE, University of Alberta CC: Noah Aklilu Newsgroups: ualberta.courses.ee.552 You've come to the right newsgroup to discuss projects and find partners ask questions (the prof and TA read this group) help out your classmates by answering some questions regarding EE552 regards -- Duncan Elliott Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Assistant Professor 238 Civil/Electrical Building elliott@ee.ualberta.ca University of Alberta http://www.ee.ualberta.ca/~elliott/ Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2G7 phone 403-492-5357 fax 403-492-1811 Subject: Tutorials Date: 15 Sep 1998 19:23:35 GMT From: aklilu@ee.ualberta.ca (Noah Aklilu) Organization: University of Alberta Electrical Engineering Department Newsgroups: ualberta.courses.ee.552 The tutorials I put together are available under http://www.ee.ualberta.ca/~elliott/ee552/labs/labdoc/noah Right now there are two in there, one for using the Mentor tools and another on accessing the newsgroups (yes I know ...). Any additional ones I add will go in this directory. Take a look at the appnotes from previous years as well, there is quite a bit of useful information in there. -- Noah Aklilu aklilu@ee.ualberta.ca http://www.ee.ualberta.ca/~aklilu/ "If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." C.S. Lewis Subject: Internet Pakets Date: 16 Sep 1998 00:09:24 GMT From: jlo@ee.ualberta.ca (Jeffery Lo) Organization: University of Alberta Electrical Engineering Department Newsgroups: ualberta.courses.ee.552 Oops! spelled packets wrong. Oh well. Does anyone have any information on the size of internet packets? Or does anyone know where such information would be available? Also, if anyone is doing their 552 projects using ethernet communication technology, please reply. Jeff Lo Subject: Lab #1 Reports Date: 16 Sep 1998 03:20:48 GMT From: aklilu@ee.ualberta.ca (Noah Aklilu) Organization: University of Alberta Electrical Engineering Department Newsgroups: ualberta.courses.ee.552 Just some notes on the lab reports: The format is specified in the lab handout, make sure you have the latest version from the 552 webpage. For simulation output (the waveforms), I expect to see at least - Clock and Reset - The Match signal from the pattern finder - The state progression of your pattern finder - The counter output from your down_counter - The enable signal for your down_counter - The input bitstream Lack of annotations on your waveforms won't get you far, so label everything. The entity definitions in the lab handout are strict, so make sure you use all the signals in your VHDL code.