MODD / Mr. Hansen
9/3/2005 [rev. 9/7/2005]

Name: _______________________

 

MODD Course Outline (Draft 2)

 

W 9/7

Introduction, ground rules, planning the semester’s topics

Th 9/8

Unit 0x00: Logical Building Blocks

F 9/9

 

 

 

M 9/12

 

01 rules for +, ·, Å, and ~ 02 truth tables 03 AND (Ù), OR (Ú), NOT (Ø) 04 digital circuit

T 9/13

 

notation 05 Þ, Ü, Û, etc. 06 Boolean algebra 07 DeMorgan’s laws, distributive laws

W 9/14

 

08 " and $ 09 advanced negation 0A simplifying 0B proving conjectures 0C deduction vs.

Th 9/15

 

induction 0D automated theorem proving 0E Gödel’s Theorem 0F fuzzy logic Unit Quiz

F 9/16

 

 

 

M 9/19

Unit 0x10: Bits, Bytes, Hex, and Hertz

T 9/20

 

11 bit, nybble, byte, word, dword, qword 12 K, M, G, T 13 210 » 103 14 binary 15 octal

W 9/21

 

16 hex (0x) 17 ASCII 18 the mysterious MZ 19 baud, kbps, mbps 1A Hz, KHz, MHz, GHz

Th 9/22

 

1B wavelength vs. frequency 1C aliasing 1D bandwidth 1E muxing 1F time Unit Quiz

F 9/23

 

 

 

 

M 9/26

Unit 0x20: What’s So Great About Digital?

T 9/27

 

21 analog 22 digital defined 23 digital design 24 Which is “natural”? 25 A/D conversion

W 9/28

 

26 D/A conversion 27 noise as a concept 28 dodging noise 29 endianness, an unavoidable

Th 9/29

 

mess 2A advantages of analog 2B advantages of digital 2C Why didn’t Bell and Edison go

F 9/30

 

digital? 2D Phil. 101: Does analog exist? 2E retro digital 2F a binary future? Unit Quiz

 

 

M 10/3

Unit 0x30: Audio

T 10/4

 

31 crash course in electronics: volts, amps, ohms, R/C/L 32 crash course in logarithms

W 10/5

 

33 bels and dB 34 noise revisited 35 S/N 36 AM 37 FM 38 companding 39 PCM

Th 10/6

 

 

F 10/7

No school

 

 

M 10/10

No school

T 10/11

 

3A sampling rate, Nyquist’s Theorem 3B signal processing 3C FFT 3D audio CD 3E data

W 10/12

 

CD, MP3 3F HDR Unit Quiz

Th 10/13

 

 

F 10/14

 

 

 

M 10/17

Unit 0x40: Compression

T 10/18