Home Page of Spring 2024 CPE380

This is the official home page for CPE380 (AKA, CS380). Although you may have registered for it as either CPE380 or CS380, there is only one section, meeting TR 2:00-3:15 in room 323 Robotics & Manufacturing.

Although many course materials will be posted here, the course Canvas site will be the primary place for course announcements. You are expected to use canvas and materials linked here. We expect to use Zoom or recordings for a couple of class meetings when Prof. Dietz will be presenting research at a conference. The best way to schedule office meetings, physical or virtual, or generally to contact Prof. Dietz is via email with "CPE380" in the Subject line.

Over the last several years, the course content of CPE380 has been slowly evolving to take better advantage of the curriculum changes that now typically put CS270 and CPE287 before CPE380 and make CPE380 a required course only for CPE majors rather than EE, CS, and CPE. An increasing exposure to Verilog has been added, with the goal of making students more comfortable working with modern computer hardware designs in Verilog.

• The Syllabus, last updated January 8, 2024, is available on Canvas.
• Reference materials and software listed by topic
• A few slides about SC22
• Errata and clarifications (last update: January 9, 2024)

Course Staff

Professor Hank Dietz would normally be in the Davis Marksbury Building; see his home page for complete contact info. He is normally available in 108 or 203 Marksbury from about 9AM to 1:30PM on Tuesdays and Thursdays. He has an "open-door" policy that whenever his door is open and he's not busy with someone else, he's available -- and yup, there really is a slow-update live camera in his office so you can check. However, during the pandemic things are far less certain, and you should be prepared to wear a mask if meeting in his office. The best method to contact him is to email hankd@engr.uky.edu using "CPE380" in the subject line for anything related to this course. If appropriate, individual Zoom meetings also can be scheduled via email.

Haoxiang Zhang is the course TA. He is available every afternoon, from 2-4PM, in FPAT 675 and also can meet at times arranged via email. His email address is Haoxiang.zhang@uky.edu using "CPE380" in the subject line for anything related to this course. If appropriate, individual Zoom meetings also can be scheduled via email.

Note: The image at the top of this page was created by DALL-E: "A Van Gogh painting of a giant processor chip being built by a bunch of carpenters as the sun sets in the distance."