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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Week 16 -FINAL!

• Final grades are posted!
• A revised solution for exam2 is posted. Changes involve problem 2. However, the problem was graded based on a correct key.
• Final is Friday 12/14, 8-11am in 180 Tan Kah Kee Hall (link shows location on map)
• Homework 8 solutions in Word.
• A review session will be held on Tuesday, December 11, 10-11:30 in 285 Cory.

Week 15

• Homework 9 solutions in PDF and Word
• Exam 2 solutions (revised)  up, including problem 3
• Poster session for Phase 3 of the project : Tuesday 9:30-11:00 at BWRC
• You can use this poster template. Here are the directions on how to use the template. It is NOT mandatory to use the template. This template is useful if you plan to use a plotter to print your poster on a single piece of paper.
• Lab reports: If you are in Josh's section (Wed 11-2pm), please bring the reports for the hardware lab at the poster session and give them to Josh. Write the name of your lab TA on the report.
• Lab reports: If you are in Radu's section (Wed 5-8 pm), please bring the reports for the hardware lab at the poster session and give them to Josh. Write the name of your lab TA on the report.
• Lab reports: If you are in Hanching's section, please bring your hardware lab reports to BWRC on Tuesday!

Week 14

• Homework #9 (your final homework!) has been posted in PDF | Word (due Thursday, Dec. 6)
• Phase 3 of the project is posted.
• There is a hardware lab this week.
• Links to papers mentioned in the class: Pentium 4 design, fast ALU.
• ISSCC web site: http://www.isscc.org. 
• Thank you to the TWO students for showing up last Wednesday for discussion!  =)
• Discussion 8, 9, and 10 notes posted on Hanching's webpage.

Week 13

• Phase 2 of the project is due on Wednesday 3pm.
• The template for the phase 2 report has been posted.
• Last (hardware) lab will be next week.
• Discussion section will be held this Wednesday (Hanching will teach in place of Josh)
• No office hour (3-4PM) for Hanching this week
• Happy Thanksgiving!

Week 12

• Radu's office hour this week (only) will be Friday 9-10 @ BWRC
• Homework #8 deadline has been extended! Now due Monday, November 26 @ 5:00 PM (Word).
• Lab section switch: Kevin will conduct Radu's section and vice-versa (this week only).

Week 11

• Homework #8 (due Friday, Nov. 16 @ 5:00 PM) available in Word format only.
• Phase 2 of the project is posted!
• Exam #2 - Thursday, November 8, 6:30 PM in 277 Cory Hall - Exam is open book and open notes with calculators allowed
• Review session - Weds. Nov 7, 6-7:30pm,  9 Lewis Hall (link shows location on a map).
• Other help this week: Josh's discussion, W 2-3PM; Hanching's office hour, W 3-4PM; Prof. Nikolic's Office Hour, Th 11AM-12:30PM
• NO Labs this week and NO Friday discussion
• Exam #1 solutions available in Word format
• Homework #7 solutions up in Word and PDF formats
• Homework #6 solutions up in Word format.
• Project phase 1 grades -> range = 78 - 98; mean = 87

Week 10

• Professor Nikolic's office hour this Monday only (10/29) will be held 1-2pm, instead of its regular slot 10:30-12pm.
• No new homework this week.

Week 9

• Complete your labs BEFORE your lab session this week!  You will be expected to show project progress to your TA in lab this week!
• Homework #5 solutions up in PDF and Word formats
• Homework #7 (due Wednesday, Oct. 31 [Halloween!] @ 5:00 PM) available in PDF and Word formats.  This is an easy one, so enjoy!

Week 8

• Hanching's discussion 5 and 6 notes (including handout) are available online now
• Homework #6 (due Wednesday, Oct. 24 @ 5:00 PM) is available in Word and PDF formats.
• Phase 1 of the Project is posted!
• Lab #6 available now in Word and PDF formats.
• Logical effort: Paper, by Sutherland and Sproul; Slides by David Harris.
• Homework #5 solutions will be available shortly
• Discussion section switch: Hanching will teach Josh's section and vice-versa (This week only.)

Week 7

• Homework #5 is available in Word and PDF formats
• Lab #5 available now in Word and PDF formats.

• LAB SCHEDULE HAS CHANGED: See the complete lab schedule here

        Friday section is cancelled.

        Radu will conduct Wed 5-8 section. Other sections do not change.

• Radu's office hours: Monday 12-1 pm 297 Cory 

Week 6

• IMPORTANT NEWS

            Following Muhamad's withdrawal, the class has a new TA: Radu Zlatanovici (zradu@eecs.berkeley.edu)

            Radu's schedule is not clear yet. He will take one of the lab sections (probably not the one on Friday).        

            Office hours - TBA, probably Monday morning.

            Watch the web page for updates.

• Homework #4 solutions available in Word format only
• Exam #1 - Thursday, October 4, 6:30 PM in 277 Cory Hall - Exam is open book and open notes with calculators allowed
• Review Session, Wednesday Night - 7:30 - 9 PM in 22 Warren Hall
• Josh and Hanching will have a "tag team" discussion section (285 Cory) and office hour (297 Cory) on Wednesday from 2-3 PM and 3-4 PM, respectively
• No Lab sections this week!  No new homework!  No Discussion section on Friday!
• Hanching's Discussion 4 notes available here.

Week 5

• Lab #4 report due two weeks from lab session (no labs next week!).
• Homework #2 solutions available in Word format only.
• Homework #3 solutions available in Word format only.
• Homework #4 (due Tuesday, Oct. 2 @ 5:00 PM) is available in Word and PDF formats.
• Prof. Nikolic's office hour this Monday is cancelled.  An extra office hour will be held next week.
• Lab #4 will be available now in Word and PDF formats.
• Hanching's Discussion 3 notes available here.

Week 4

• Additional material from Tuesday's lecture on sizing an inverter chain is available.
• Homework #3 (due Tuesday, Sept. 25 @ 5:00 PM) is now out in Word and PDF formats.
• Lab #3 available now in Word and PDF formats.
• We will not cancel the Wednesday 5-8PM lab session due to the conflicts students have with other times.
• Hanching's Discussion 2 notes scanned and available: http://www.hanching.com/ee141.html.

Week 3

• Correction to Homework#2 -- include path for spice should read '/home/dd/ee141/MODELS/g25b.mod'  (added an initial "/").
• LABS START THIS WEEK!  We are exploring the layout editor, MAX, in software lab 2.  It has already been posted, and for those of you with access at home, you might save yourself some time in lab if you get ahead by looking through it!  
• For Micromagic (max and sue), make sure to ssh to quasar.cs.berkeley.edu, as this is the only machine with the correct licenses.
• Make sure your .cshrc file is edited to allow Micromagic to run!  Check http://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/classes/ICDesign/EE141_f00/SoftwareLabs/lab_setup.html for more info.
• Ignore the line in the tutorial that says cp -r $MMI_TOOLS/tutorials/max .
• Homework#2 (due Tuesday, Sept 18 @ 5:00pm) is posted on the assignments page.
• Find out how to setup your home machine to run the EE141 tools!  EE141@Home
• As promised, Hanching's handwritten Friday discussion notes are available at http://www.hanching.com/ee141.html.  
  These will be mirrored on an EECS page soon.

Week 2

• Labs will start in Week 3

• Discussions start in Week 2

• Schedule changes:

  Labs:    Tuesday lab moved to 3:30-6:30pm

               Thursday lab moved to 3:30-6:30pm

  Discussions: Friday discussion moved to 4-5pm (293 Cory)

                      Tuesday discussion canceled

• First homework posted on Tuesday 9/4, due Monday 9/10

Week 1

• CLASS IS OVER-ENROLLED.

  • We can accommodate at most 75 students.
  • Admission into class will be determined on the following priority base:
    • Graduating Seniors
    • Incoming graduate students needing the class for prelims
    • Other seniors and graduate students
    • Juniors

• Only 2 discussion sessions will be offered (instead of 3)

  • No need to pick any of the two. Feel free to attend whichever you like (you can even go to both!)

• Assignment to Lab Sessions finalized in 2nd week of classes.

Maintained by Borivoje Nikolic and the Class TAs