Notes From Class

Week 1 : January 28, 2002

If you do not have a Glue computer account and an ISR computer account, please get them. See the FAQ page for instructions.
If you need information on building a web page at Maryland, see the links at the bottom of the Internet Resources page.

Week 2 : Febrary 4, 2002

If you are at an ITV site, please print a copy of the Systems Architecting and Engineering Design tutorial and bring it to class today (hopefully you will read this before class!).

Week 3 : Febrary 11, 2002

Volumes 1, 2 and 3 of the ENSE 622 class notes (800 pages in total) will be available at the Engineering Copy center on Monday (Feb. 11) for $50.
Todays class will cover "models of systems development," "planning and analysis," and start "requirements engineering." I will bring the relevant sections to class -- and we will fax them to the external sites.
I'd like to build a project abstract page. Before next week's class, please send me an e-mail containing the following information.
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      Team Members:
      Abstract: ..... just a 2-3 sentence abstract here .....
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Week 5 : Febrary 25, 2002

Today in class we will be covering procedures for logical design ....
Click here to download the simple (2x2) matrix multiplication example I discussed in class on Monday.

Week 6 : March 4, 2002

During the past week I have been working furiously to get the notes into a format that is presentable (albeit still incomplete). My plans are to give you all of the notes that I have today in class -- they are in a 250 pg. yellow booklet, courtesy of ISR -- and to handout revisions to the "logical design and physical design" sections over the next month or so.
If you are out in ITV-land, the yellow booklet should be arriving at your site on Wednesday.
Here is Assignment 1 . Due on April 1. Don't hesitate to contact me if you have qeustions and/or want to disuss ideas for approaching parts of the assignment.
Please talk to the class TA if you need help getting a basic web page up-and-running on the Glue/ISR systems. If you are unfamiliar with the basics of web page development, a good place to start learning is the Beginners Guide to HTML .

Week 7 : March 11, 2002

I expect that over the next few days I will have numerous conversations with groups of students about the assignment. My plan is to summarize these conversations on the Assignment 1 writeup, so please check it every couple of days.

Week 8 : March 18, 2002

Week 9 : March 25, 2002

Week 10 : April 1, 2002

I would like to update the URL entries from the "meet the class" page. If your entry still says something like .... glue.umd.edu/~who, please send me an e-mail with the corrected URL.
Today's Class. Yes, we will be having class tonight, and it will cover component- and interface-based design . But it will end a little early so you can watch the basketball!
Please bring a printout of your homework to class. If your web page contains special effects, just note them on your printout and I will make a point of visiting your web page for a demo. My plan is to summarize and describe the "best ideas" during class on April 15.

Week 11 : April 8, 2002

Midterm Exam: 2hrs, open book. Here's my plan for the midterm -- I am currently compiling a list of about 40 questions from the first tutorial in the yellow book (i.e., pg's 3-93). Seeing that the exam will be open book, answers to the questions will require a bit of thinking (i.e., they are not as simple as "can you remember the diagram from pg. 20).
I will randomly select about 15 of the 40 questions for the midterm exam, and then post all of the questions on the tutorial site after the midterm.

Week 12 : April 15, 2002

We will review the homework -- hopefully I will be able to point out examples of "great work!"
As promised, my list of approximately 40 review questions is now available. See the Addendum to the Yellow Book . My plans are to modify this page incrementally over the next couple of weeks to include material on "trade-off analysis" at the logical design level.
Introduction to Decision Making Problems. Be sure to bring your "reader" from ense 621 to class.

Week 13 : April 22, 2002

Multi-Objective Optimization Problems. Be sure to bring your "reader" from ense 621 to class.

Week 14 : April 29, 2002

Multi-Objective Optimization Problems. Be sure to bring your "reader" from ense 621 to class.
We will try to answer "hat does multi-objective optimization" mean in the context of logical and physical design?"
Platform-Based Design.
Click here for a "working draft" of my notes on platform-based design. (I am sorry, they are very rough!).
Take a look at this presentation on Platform-Based Design: A Path for Efficient Design Reuse , by Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, UC. Berkeley, April 2000.

Week 15 : May 6, 2002

Analytical Hierarchy Processs (AHP). Be sure to bring your "reader" from ense 621 to class.

Week 16 : May 13, 2002

Final Exam. 10 minutes to read exam; 2 hours to answer questions. Open book and open notes. Please bring some graph paper.

Week 17 : May 20, 2002