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NEW EVENTS & UPDATES IN 1999
1999 EVENT & UPDATE SIZE
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11/11
  • 24.424 Assignments 3 & 4: (D/A & A/D conversions) uploaded.
  • New Systems: Vol. 1.07: VLIW processor; organic semiconductors.

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    11/10
  • 24.424 Lecture 27: A/D conversion: errors; error budget.
  • 24.721 Lecture 9: Ch. 2: Dimensions: Mandelbrot; Lyapunov.
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    11/08
  • 24.424 Lecture 26: A/D conversion: Charge balancing
       (given by Richard Dansereau).
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    11/06
  • Leaving for a CEAB Accreditation Visit.
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    11/05
  • 24.424 Lecture 25: A/D conversion: Integrating.
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    11/03
  • 24.424 Lecture 24: A/D conversion: tracking, SA, quad slope.
  • 24.721 Lecture 8: Ch. 2: Dimensions: Rényi.
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    11/01
  • 24.424 Lecture 23: D/A conversion: 2NR, R-2R, monotonic.
  • Meeting with my graduate students (Rm. 566, 11:30-12:30 PM).
  • Individual meetings with two graduate students (Rm. 533, 12:30-1:30 PM).
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    [Small Logo] October 1999 [Small Logo]
    10/29
  • 24.424 Lecture 22: Midterm test.
  • Seminar: "Intracardiac Measurements with the Conductance Catheter"
       by Dr. Maximo E. Valentinuzzi, Universidad Nacional de Tucumn, Argentina.
       Room 230, New Engineering Bldg, 2:30 PM.
  • New Systems: Vol. 1.06: Anatomy of an airbag; home nets; FPSOC.

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    10/27
  • 24.424 Lecture 21: D/A conversion. Review of material for the midterm test.
  • 24.721 Lecture 7: Ch. 2: Dimensions: generalized gyration, information.
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    10/26
  • Workshop 3 on WebCT (lists, communications) -attended.
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    10/25
  • 24.424 Lecture 20: Buffering. Intro to digital IO.
  • Meeting with all my graduate students (Rm. 566, 11:30-12:30 PM).
  • Individual meetings with two graduate students (Rm. 533, 12:30-1:30 PM).
  • Meeting re. CFI & picosatellites (Rm. 230, 1:30-2:30 PM).
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    10/22
  • 24.424 Lecture 19: Buffering.
  • New Systems: Vol. 1.05: PIC simulators. FPGA with 150 M transistors.
  • 24.424 Midterm TEST a week from today.
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    10/21
  • Meeting with all my B.Sc. thesis students (Rm. 566, 1:00-2:00 PM).
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    10/20
  • 24.424 Lecture 18: DMA types and processing.
  • 24.721 Lecture 6: Ch. 2: Dimensions: self-similarity, Housdorf, mass, gyration.
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    10/19
  • Workshop 2 on WebCT (content, glossaries) -attended.
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    10/18
  • 24.424 Lecture 17: Extending interrupt vector space. DMA controller.
  • Meeting with all my graduate students (Rm. 566, 11:30-12:30 PM).
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    10/15
  • 24.424 Lecture 16: Multi-level priority arbitration.
  • New Systems: Vol. 1.04: Power4, 80 Gbits/s. Picosatellites.
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    10/13
  • 24.424 Lecture 15: Single-level priority arbitration.
  • 24.721 Lecture 5: Ch. 2: Non-Euclidean dimensions.
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    10/12
  • Richard Dansereau: Ph.D. Candidacy Examination.
       (Rm. 566, Old Engineering Bldg., 10:00 AM).
  • Workshop 1 on WebCT -attended.
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    10/11
  • Smart Cards: A new tutorial (a required reading on embedded microcontrollers).
  • 24.424 Assignment 2: (Bus architectures and digital I/O) uploaded.
  • 24.424 Lecture 14: Thanksgiving Day. Lab break week.
  • Course 24.424 site completely changed and uploaded
       (though the looks remain the same).
  • My personal site also modified in whole and uploaded.
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    10/08
  • 24.424 Lecture 13: Skip & test; interject; interrupt schemes.
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    10/07
  • GRADCON'98, Graduate Student Conference
       Proceedings completed and uploaded. GRADCON'98 & GRADCON'99 printed.

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    10/06
  • 24.424 Lecture 12: Examples of synchronous and async interfacing.
  • 24.721 Lecture 4: Chs 1 & 2: Limits of scaling. Dimensions. Demos.
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    10/05
  • One-day seminar on "New Microcontrollers" by Microchip Technologies -attended.
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    10/04
  • 24.424 Lecture 11: System buses.
  • 24.424 Lab 2: Starts.
  • New Systems: Vol. 1.03: RF chip set. 1-Wire chip. Products.
  • Meeting with all my graduate students (Rm. 566, 11:30-12:30 PM).
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    10/01
  • GRADCON'99, Graduate Student Conference took place today
       October 1 '99, 8.30 AM to 3 PM; St. John's College, UofM.
  • 24.424 Lecture 10: Cancelled for students to attend GRADCON'99.

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    [Small Logo] September 1999 [Small Logo]
    09/30
  • GRADCON'99, Graduate Student Conference
       site and Proceedings completed and uploaded.

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    09/29
  • 24.424 Lecture 9: Peripheral busses.
  • 24.721 Lecture 3: Ch 1: What are chaos. Chua's circuits. Demos.
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    09/27
  • 24.424 Lecture 8: External busses.
  • Meeting with all my graduate students (Rm. 566, 11:30-12:30 PM).
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    09/24
  • 24.424 Lecture 7: Bus architectures. Internal busses.
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    09/23
  • New Systems: Vol. 1.02: A new PalmPilot? Internet maps. Peta chip.
  • This site has been uploaded for the first time.
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    09/22
  • 24.424 Lecture 6: Data distribution system. Intro to buses.
  • 24.721 Lecture 2: Ch 1: Self-similarity. What are fractals. Demos.
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    09/20
  • 24.424 Lecture 5: Data acquisition & distribution system.
  • 24.424 Lab 1: Starts.
  • Meeting with all my graduate students (Rm. 566, 11:30-12:30 PM).
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    09/17
  • 24.424 Lecture 4: Review of our research projects. Discussion of Lab 1.
       Labs start next week.
  • Net Seminar (Design optimization techniques, using digitally controlled pots.)
       Register before September 22, 1999, 1-2 PM Central Time.
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    09/15
  • 24.424 Lecture 3: Review of our research projects; demo of sensors.
  • 24.424 Assignment 1 (Bus architectures and digital I/O) uploaded.
  • 24.721 Fractal & Chaos Engineering graduate course.
       Classes start today in Room 566, Old Eng. Bldg. Welcome.
       Lecture 1: Overview of the course. Demo of space filling curves.
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    09/13
  • 24.424 Lecture 2: Overview of technology; demo of boards.
  • 24.424 Course Notes, Chapter 1 to 7 distributed in class.
  • 24.424 Labs 1-4 Writeup distributed in class.
  • Meeting with all my graduate students (Rm. 566, 11:30-12:30 PM).

  • Graduate Student Conference, GRADCON'99 will take place
       October 1 '99, 8.30 AM to 3 PM; St. John's College, UofM.

  • Course on "Radio Theory for Basic License" will start
       October 5 '99, 5 PM; Rm. 566, Old Eng. Bldg.
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    09/10
  • 24.424 Microprocessor Interfacing.
       Classes start today in Room 234b, New Eng. Bldg. Welcome.
  • Syllabus distributed in class.
  • Chapter 1, Part 1: Introduction and orientation.
  • September issue of Computer Post distributed.
  • Demonstration of a walker robot, chips, radios, this course site.
  • New Systems: Vol. 1.01: Tiny Web server. Wearable computers. G4.
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    [Small Logo] Preliminary Work [Small Logo]
    09/09
  • This entire site has been uploaded.
  • This version 1.50 has 148 items and 5.8 MB on disk.
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    09/08
  • Many new links to the supplementary magazines have been added.
  • Many corrections and modifications to all the pages have been completed.
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    09/06
  • Links to all the supplementary magazines and journals have been added and tested.
  • Many new links to project sites have been added.
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    09/03
  • Course notes and lab writeups have been printed.
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    09/01
  • The new site for 24.424 course took shape. Most of the main pages have been completed.
  • The course contents have been finalized.
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    08/01
  • Work on this new site for 24.424 course started.
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    02/09
  • An electronic book Principles of Computer Architecture
       by Miles J. Murdocca and Vincent P. Heuring has been mirrored at this site.

  • The February 1999 issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE
       is dedicated to asynchronous systems design.
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    01/17
  • "Wireless communications for the twenty-first century" by Andrew Viterbi.
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    01/16
  • Three articles uploaded:
    - "An informal introduction to formal methods," by C. Michael Holloway.
    - "Application of logic to digital system design," by Paul S. Miner.
    - "Detailed database example," by Ricky W. Butler.
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    01/10
  • An article "The life of SPICE" by Larry Nagel.
  • A prototype of this site (in the form of 24.422 Switching & Automata Theory)
      has been completed and posted.
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