Course Schedule

Schedule:

The following table gives an approximate schedule for the lectures to be covered and the nominal due dates for the labs. Week numbers is followed by an asterisk denotes the week in which there will likely be a midterm exam during the class. There will be a formal announcement of this the week before the midterms, as the midterm dates are somewhat flexible and we may modify these dates as the course progresses or if there is a general consensus within the class that there are already too many other midterms that week.

Week Starting	Week Number	Lecture Material Covered	Lab to be done
1/7/08	1	Noise & noise sources, & noise reduction & Ground loops	none
1/14/08	2	A/D and D/A converters & Additional Information	Lab 1 : Noise in resistors and Op-Amps
1/21/08*	3	Digital Filters & Convolution	Lab 2: A/D and D/A converters
1/28/08	4	Beginning computers, CPU structure, simple, data, command, text representation, ports	Lab 3: Switched Capacitor Filter
2/4/08	5	LabView Introduction, control structures, controls, debugging *Bishop, Chapters 1&2*	Lab 4: Simple Labview dialog boxes
2/11/08	6	LabView finite state machines, vi elements, events, local variables, sequences Conway,Chapter 6.1 Bishop Chapter 4,5,12.1	Lab 5: Labview tic-tac game
2/18/08**	7	LabView vi's and sub-vi's, access to VISA resources (serial, parallel ports) *Bishop Chapters 8,9*	Lab 6: ADR serial port communication
2/25/08	8	ADR boards, String/text processing	Lab 7: ADR signal generator I
3/3/08	9	Queued Message Handler *Conway* Chapter 6.2 Midterm Exam Tuesday, 3/4/08 (In class)	Lab 8 : A/D with ADR board, D/A with parallel port
3/10/08***	10	LabView Graphical Object Oriented Programming *Conway* Chapters 4,5	Lab 9: Event Loop simulation Game
3/24/08***	11	LabView PCI-bus DAQ card control, virtual instrument libraries *Bishop Chapter 8*	Lab 10: Digital Oscilloscope Control and Measurement
3/31/08	12	LabView GPIB instrument access and control *Bishop Chapter 10*	Lab 11: Automated switched capacitor Filter Gain Measurement System
4/07/08	13	LabView Graphics & plotting *Bishop Chapter 7*	Lab 12: GOOP DAQ System
4/14/08	14	GPIB oscilloscope control, reading/writing data files	Lab 12:GOOP DAQ System
4/21/08	15	LabView Web access and deployment *Bishop Chapter 12*	Lab 13: Web Based DAQ system final project

*University closed Monday, Jan 21 2008

** University closed Monday, Feb 18 2008

***Spring Break March 17-22, 2008, University is closed

The lab schedule is for individual pacing purposes, and is set to coincide with the appropriate lecture material.

Labs may be handed in early, but if they are handed in more than one week after the due date they may suffer a `late' penalty in the grading.