CMPT 150 Harbour Centre

• Midterm#1 took place on Week 8, Monday February 27, usual room.
  • TOPICS:
  • Material covered in the lectures and labs until and including the material discussed in lectures before the reading break.
  • Minitests and exercises done until the lecture before the reading break.
  • Topics included: from the beginning of the course until and including Decoders and Encoders.
  • Material covered in labs covering these topics.
  • Material covered in assignments covering these topics.
  • Readings as suggested above for the corresponding topics.
    
    
  • CRIB SHEET:
  • Include anything you think you may need, for example, such as boolean laws. You can write up to 2 pages (but may use less space as well), handwritten or printed. Include your name and student number.
    
    
• (Complement set of) Suggested exercises for practice before Midterm #1. You may want to try working on some of those which have solutions in the companion website.
  • Following are the exercises which you should NOT be concerned about for Midterm #1: (Numbering according to the textbook 3rd (old) edition)
    • Chapter 1: 2,11,13,14,17,18,19,20
    • Chapter 2: 5,20,27,28,29,32,33,34,35
    • Chapter 3: 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,13,14,16,18,21,22,24,... end
    • Chapter 4: 1,2,3,15,16,18,
    • Chapter 4, topic multiplexers (not in the midterm #1, but included in future exercises and tests): exercises 19,20, 23,24,25,26
    • Chapter 4: we will not see topics associated to: 27 ... end
      
      
  • Following are the exercises which you should NOT be concerned about for Midterm #1: (Numbering according to the textbook 4th (new) edition)
    • Chapter 1: 1,2 4,5,21,22,26, ... end
    • Chapter 2: 5,19,20,27,28,29,30,31,34,35
    • Chapter 3: (multiplexors not included in midterm)
      
      
      
• Midterm#2. Week # 12, Monday March 26, 4:30-5:30, room TBA.
  
  
• TOPICS and material included in Midterm #2:
  • Material covered in the lectures and labs until and including "Sequential circuits analysis".
  • Exercises done during lectures until and including "Sequential circuits analysis".
  • Material covered in assignments #3 and #4.
  • Topics included: focus on topics seen after the previous midterm until and including analysis of sequential circuits. Notice that due to the nature of the course the topics that were tested in midterm #1 will be required.
  • Readings as suggested above for the corresponding topics.
  • You will NOT be tested about:
    • material that was not covered in class
    • carry lookahead adders.
    • the transparency problem in latches, the 1's catching behaviour problem, the internal structure of master-slaves flip flops.
      
      
• CRIB SHEET that you may bring to Midterm #2::
• Include anything you think you may need, such as the tables associated to the flip flops. You can write up to 3 (three) pages (but may use less space as well), handwritten or printed. Include your name and student number in the crib sheet.
  
  

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