Physics Instrumentation, Spring 2000

Physics 433/533 Instrumentation, Spring 2000

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In addition to the basic course information below, this page will give updates
on schedules, labs, exams, projects, etc. during the term.

Projects Update 5/31/00:
Please schedule project demonstrations for this week, if possible. Demonstrations and
writeups (PC+ and Lab 20-21) are due by the latest on 5 PM Friday June 9.
Please come to class Thursday June 1 for Evaluations and updates.

Parts Update:

The AD7569 ICs arrived and are in the lab. There are only 4, so please be ready to share.
.An order for infrared emitters and detectors and visble detectors will arrive Weds 5/31.- 5/31 Arrived

Instructor:	Raymond Frey, Wil 405, 346-5873, rayfrey@cosmic.uoregon.edu
Office hours:	Tu,W 11:00--12:00
Lectures:	Tu,Th 12:30--13:20, Wil 147
Text:	Student Manual for the Art of Electronics, Hayes and Horowitz
Optional:	The Art of Electronics, 2nd Ed., Horowitz and Hill
Labs:	Wil 11 (basement), one 3-hour lab per week starting with the week of April 3. Lab times will be arranged the week of March 27.
TA's:	Jason Burt, Labs (jburt1@darkwing)
	Qiuyang Wu, Homework (qwu@gladstone)
Lab Supervisor:	Dean Livelybrooks, Wil 144, 346-5855, dlivelyb@hendrix.uoregon.edu
WWW:	This page available at http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~rayfrey/433/433S00_info.html

We will cover the following two major topics:

building a microcomputer

this will follow the Hayes and Horowitz approach, labs 15,16,18,19,20,...

computer interfacing

this will involve PC register-level programming of instrumentation
the term project will be based on this section

The graded components of the class are as follows: homework (20%), labs (50%), project (30%)

Labs

We have settled on 3 lab sections (Jason Burt TA): Tues 3:00 - 6:00 Weds 3:30 - 6:30 Fri 4:00 - 7:00

1	April 3	Counters: Lab 15-1 thru 15-6 of Hayes
LAB	WEEK	TOPIC
2	April 10	Memory & State Machines: Lab 16-1 , 16-3, 16-4 of Hayes
3	April 17	Hayes Lab 18, Sections 18-1 -- 18-7
3	April 24	Lab 18 continued
4	May 1	Hayes Lab 19
5	May 8	Intro to the LAB-PC+ Interface Board
	May15 - June2	PC+ -based projects OR Hayes Labs 20-21 (reduced)
		Examples of previous Lab-PC+ projects

Lectures, Homework, and Exams

The following table is will be updated frequently. Unless otherwise noted, the homework numbers refer to "Exercises" in the text. Homework solutions will be placed on reserve in the Science Library.


WEEK	TOPICS/TEXT	HOMEWORK
Mar 27	Prof. Frey will be away this week	HW#1: See Note [ps] [pdf] [tex]
Apr 3	Discussion of Labs 1&2	HW#2 [ps] [pdf] [tex] due Apr 18
Apr 10	Discussion of Lab 2
Apr 17	Discussion of Lab 3 ; See reading assignment on the HW#3 sheet	HW#3 [ps] [pdf] [tex] due May 2
Apr 24	Discussion of Lab3-4, Programming	HW#4 [ps] [pdf] [tex] due May 2
May 2	contd.
May 9	Discuss Lab 5	Project Proposals due Tues May 16
May 16	proposals discussion Tues; No class Thurs.

rayfrey@cosmic.uoregon.edu