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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Week 17

• The grades are posted at Bearfacts!  Happy holidays and enjoy your break!  
• Good job on the final exam!  Undergraduate median/average was 39, while graduate median/average was 54!

Week 16

• Please verify that all of your scores are correct!  If you are missing a lab or homework score, please contact your TA.  If your midterm or project grade is incorrect, please contact Prof. Nikolic.
• Prof Nikolic will hold an extra discussion session on Monday, Dec 9, 5-6pm in the Hogan Room (521 Cory).
• Henry, Dimitrios, and Leland will hold a final review session on Thursday, January 12 from 7-??PM in the Hogan room (521 Cory).  We will go over a bunch of practice exam problems.
• Leland's office hours cancelled Monday (12/9).  Thurs (12/12) 3-4PM and Mon (12/16) 4-5PM are still on.
• Henry's office hours this week will be Thursday (12/12) 6-7 and Monday (12/16) 3-4 in 353 Cory.
• Dimitrios' office hours cancelled Monday (12/16), but Monday (12/9) 12-1 is still on.
• Homework 10 solutions posted.  Slight modification in solution to 1b,c.  ...typos fixed in problem 1.
• An updated solution to a problem on homework 9. Read the note about latch based timing. If you missed the example given during the TA review on latch based timing, you might want to see some notes on it.

Week 15

• Homework 10 is not due.  Never.  Ever.  It will not be collected or graded.  Just do it, ok?

Week 14

• Phase 2 report template.
• Prof. Nikolic will hold a discussion about the project on Monday, November 25, 5-6pm in Hogan room, 5th floor of Cory.
• No homework this week.

Week 13

• Midterm 2 solutions posted.
• Hardware lab this week.
• Homework 9 is due Tues, November 26th at 5 pm.
• Download ~ee141/stim.inc as a framework stimulus/load file for your phase2 spice deck.

Week 12

• Project phase 2 is posted.
• There is no lab or homework this week.
• Project phase 1 is due on Tuesday Nov. 12.  Please turn in both the paper copy (drop box), and the electronic file.
• There are no discussions, no office hours on Monday Nov. 11 (holiday).

Week 11

• Midterm 2 is on Thursday, November 7, 6-7:30pm in 277 Cory.
• Prof. Nikolic will hold a last minute office hour on Thursday 1-2pm in 570 Cory.
• Review session is on Tuesday, November 5, 6-7:30pm in 277 Cory.
• More time for questions through extra office hours.
• Slight clarification in problem 2 of Homework 8.  You can also read about this in the newsgroup.

Week 10

• Homework 8 is due on November 5, 5pm.  It's short...really.
• Spice extraction works!  Make sure that you are using the latest version of "ext2spice" (located in /home/ff/ee141/ext2spice).  If you are sourcing the class .cshrc file, then this should all be set up for you already.  All source/drain areas and perimeters will be zero, but the capacitances will be accounted for as lumped capacitors at each node.  Read this if you're interested in knowing what kind of hack job was done to fix this problem.

Week 9

• Phase 1 of the project is posted.  Due Tuesday, November 12 at 5pm.
• No labs this week (work on your projects!).  Lab 6 due next week.
• Homework 7 is due on Tuesday, October 29, 5pm. Problem 3 slightly modified/clarified.

Week 8

• No labs this week.
• Homework 6 (word | PDF) is due Tuesday, October 22, 5 pm.

Week 7

• Lab 6 is this week.
• Homework 5 is due on Tuesday, October 15, 5pm.
• Lab 6 report is not due next week, but the week after (week of October 21-25)
• No labs next week.
• Midterm 1 solutions posted.

Week 6

• No labs this week.
• Midterm 1 is on Thursday, October 3, 6-7:30pm in 277 Cory.  There is no lecture this Thursday.
• Review session is on Tuesday, October 1, 6-7:30pm in 277 Cory.
• Sample exams can be found here.
• Homework 4, problem 2b solution modification.

Week 5

• Lab 5 is this week.  Confused about SUE?  Check out the SUE tutorial.
• Midterm 1 is next Thursday, October 3, 6-8pm in 277 Cory.
• Homework 4 is due on Tuesday, October 1, 5pm.

Week 4

• Homework 3 is up and clarifications for it can be found here.
• Lab 4 is this week.
• Prof. Nikolic is away Monday and Tuesday:  there will be no regular office hours this week, please make an appointment by e-mail to see him.
• Tuesday lecture is by Leland Chang.
• Wednesday 12-3pm lab section cancelled

Week 3

• There is enough room in the class to accommodate everyone - just find a lab and discussion session that has empty seats.
• Lab 3 is this week.  You must attend one of lab sessions!
• Homework 2 is due on Tuesday, September 17, 5pm.

Week 2

• Homework #1 due date is changed for Monday, September 9.
• We all hope that Hspice licensing issues will be resolved. 
• Labs and discussions start this week!

Week 1

• NO LECTURE ON Tuesday, August 27, 2002.

  • First lecture on Thursday August 29, 2002 (normal time and place)
  • The lecture of August 29 will be made up in week 2, Friday, September 6, 12:30-2pm, 203 McLaughlin!

   

• CLASS IS OVER-ENROLLED.

  • We can accommodate at most 75 students.
  • Make sure to attend the first lecture!
  • 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

• The class is available over webcast!
  Check http://webcast.berkeley.edu.

• No labs, no discussion sessions in week 1

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

• Textbook is J.M. Rabaey, A. Chandrakasan, B. Nikolic, "Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective," 2nd edition, Prentice-Hall 2002.

  • Textbook won't be available before November 2002.

  • First 7 chapters are available at CopyCentral; First edition is available in the bookstore, as a recommended text

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