6.111 Announcements
Week of December 8, 2009
- This week's to-do list:
- Wed: checkoff meetings, 5p - 10p
- Thu: 5pm deadline for submitting final project report, turn in labkit.
- Please take a moment to fill out the HKN Survey.
We'd very much like get your comments on the course!
- Comments and grades have been posted for the CI-M portion of Lab 3.
- The Final Project
Checkoff schedule has been posted. Since it's a tight schedule
please make every effort to be on time!
- If you made an approved parts purchase for your final project
and would like to be reimbursed, please get your receipts to Chris by
Thu at 5pm.
Week of November 30, 2009
Week of November 23, 2009
- Teams are welcome to reserve lab benches (up to one per
team member) for use during the final project. This makes it
easy to set up design directories on the local hard disks (but
remember to do backups), attach hardware to the labkits,
etc. A small sign will serve to mark your territory (no stickers
please!). Please respect the workspaces of other teams.
- The lab will not be open over Thanksgiving. It closes at
1515 on Wednesday, 11/25, and reopens at 1300 on Sunday, 11/29.
Week of November 16, 2009
- This week's to-do list:
- Tue,Thu: Design Presentations (upload PDF of slides to website).
- Thu: upload presentation slides to website
- Fri: submit Project Checklist by 5pm
- Next week's to-do list:
- Work on your project!
- Eat turkey!
- Please check the
schedule to
find out when your design presentation is.
- The lab will not be open over Thanksgiving. It closes at
1515 on Wednesday, 11/25, and reopens at 1300 on Sunday, 11/29.
Week of November 9, 2009
- This week's to-do list:
- Fri: Block Diagram Conference w/ mentor by 5pm
- Fri: submit Lab #3 revised report by 5pm
- Next week's to-do list:
- Tue,Thu: Design Presentations (upload PDF of slides to website).
- Thu: upload presentation slides to website
- Fri: submit Project Checklist by 5pm
- Please check the
schedule to
find out when your design presentation is.
- The lab will not be open over Thanksgiving. It closes at
1515 on Wednesday, 11/26, and reopens at 1300 on Sunday, 11/30.
- This is the week you should nail down the details of your design and
if you need special parts get them ordered. The staff assigned to your team
will need approve any purchases made using course funds, so please talk to
them ASAP.
Week of November 2, 2009
- This week's to-do list:
- Mon: Project Abstract due (upload PDF by 5pm)
- Thu: Mandatory Writing Workshop, 2:30p-4p, 32-144
- by Fri: Project Proposal Conference w/ mentor (schedule via email)
- Next week's to-do list:
- by Fri: Block Diagram Conference w/ mentor (schedule via email)
- Fri: CI-M Final Draft due, upload by 5pm
- Please see the Final Project Information
page for details about the project milestones and deadlines.
- We'll be assigning a staff mentor to each project team.
Your mentor will email you to schedule the Proposal Conference.
Week of October 26, 2009
- This week's to-do list:
- Tue: Project Teams due (email to cjt at mit.edu)
- Tue, Thu: lecture
- Thu: Lab 5 checkoff
- Next week's to-do list:
- Mon: Project Abstract due (upload PDF by 5pm)
- Thu: Mandatory Writing Workshop, 2:30p-4p, 32-144
- by Fri: Project Proposal Conference w/ mentor (schedule via email)
- Questions about the final project process? Check out the
final project information page.
- Thursday is the last lecture for this term.
- There will be a Writing Workshop on Thursday, 11/5, from
2:30p-4p in 32-144. Attendance is mandatory.
Week of October 19, 2008
- This week's to-do list:
- Tue: lecture
- Wed: Pizza!, 7pm, 6.111 lab
- Thu: lecture, Lab 4 checkoff
- Project Teams due next Monday, 10/26.
- Want to talk about your final project? Any of the staff can help
you brainstorm.
- Warning! Some students have had
problems using the Xilinx tools off of the shared drive (U:).
We recommend placing your project folder on the C: drive, copying
the folder back to the U: drive when you logout.
- Lab 5 has been posted.
Week of October 12, 2009
- This week's to-do list:
- Tue: (Monday schedule) no lecture
- Thu: Lecture
CI-M report draft for Lab #3 due (upload to website by 5pm)
- Work on Lab 4 (checkoff by 10/22)
- To submit a draft (in PDF form) of your CI-M paper, use
the "Submit PDFs" link to the left. When the reviewers have made
their comments, you'll be able view/download their commented PDF
files from the submissions page.
- Warning! Some students have had
problems using the Xilinx tools off of the shared drive (U:).
We recommend placing your project folder on the C: drive, copying
the folder back to the U: drive when you logout.
- Lab 5 has been posted.
Week of October 5, 2009
- This week's to-do list:
- Tue: lecture, LPSet #7 due
- Thu: lecture, no LPset -- work on your lab report!
- Thu: Lab 3 checkoff
- Work on Lab 3 CI-M paper (upload by 5p, 10/15)
- Next week's schedule:
- Tue: no class (Monday schedule)
- Thu: lecture as usual
- Lab 3 checkoff should
be completed by end of Thursday, 10/8. The Lab 3 written report should be uploaded
by 5pm, 10/15.
- The slides from the CI-M talk have been posted on the handouts page under Lecture 6.
Week of September 28, 2009
- This week's to-do list:
- Tue: lecture, LPSet #5 due
- Thu: lecture, LPSet #6 due
- work on Lab 3
- Use of the network drive from the lab workstations (U:, your
desktop, your My Documents folder, ...) as the home of the working
directory for the Xilinx tools leads to various problems. We strongly
encourage you to use a folder on the C: drives and then copy the
folder from/to U: when you log in/out. The problems seem to be
triggered when there is heavy network traffic, so limiting your net
access to some simple copying of folders at the beginning and end
of your session will avoid difficulties.
- Lab 3 has been issued.
Checkoff should be completed by Thu, 10/2. The Lab 3 written report
will be used to satisfy the CI-M requirement. Guidelines for the
report can be found at the end of the lab handout and additional
writing resources are listed as part of the Lab 3 material.
Here's the schedule for the CI-M activities:
- Tue, 09/29: CI-M intro during 6.111 lecture
- Thu, 10/15: Lab #3 Report draft due on-line by 5p
- Thu, 10/29: Draft returned on-line with comments
- Thu, 11/5: Writing Workshop during lecture time
- Fri, 11/13: Lab #3 Report final version due on-line by 5p
- Tue&Thu, 11/17&19, Design Presentations
- Mon, 11/30: Final version returned, graded
Week of September 21, 2009
- This week's to-do list:
- Tue: lecture, LPSet #3 due
- Thu: lecture, LPSet #4 due
- Thu: Lab 2 checkoff
- Gim will give a lab 3 tutorial this coming Sunday, 9/27, at 7PM in room
34-301. This is to go over the lab and give some suggestions on how to
get started. One session only.
- Gim Hom will be giving demos in the 6.111 lab (38-600) on how
to use the labkit. He'll be giving the demo at four different
times:
- Sunday, 9/20, at 7:00pm and 9:00pm
- Monday, 9/21, at 7:00pm and 9:00pm
- Lab 3 has been issued.
Checkoff should be completed by Thu, 10/8. The Lab 3 written report
will be used to satisfy the CI-M requirement. Guidelines for the
report can be found at the end of the lab handout and additional
writing resources are listed as part of the Lab 3 material.
Here's the schedule for the CI-M activities:
- Tue, 09/29: CI-M intro during 6.111 lecture
- Thu, 10/15: Lab #3 Report draft due on-line by 5p
- Thu, 10/29: Draft returned on-line with comments
- Thu, 11/5: Writing Workshop during lecture time
- Fri, 11/13: Lab #3 Report final version due on-line by 5p
- Tue&Thu, 11/17&19, Design Presentations
- Mon, 11/30: Final version returned, graded
Week of September 14, 2009
- This week's to-do list:
- Tue: lecture, LPSet #1 due
- Thu: lecture, LPSet #2 due
- Thu: Lab 1 checkoff completed
- Gim Hom will be giving demos in the 6.111 lab (38-600) on how to use
the logic analyzer and labkit -- info you'll want to know for completing
the labs! Here's the demo schedule (each demo is offered multiple times):
- Logic Analyzer:
- Sunday, 9/13, at 7:00pm and 9:00pm
- Monday, 9/14, at 7:00pm and 9:00pm
- Labkit:
- Sunday, 9/20, at 7:00pm and 9:00pm
- Monday, 9/21, at 7:00pm and 9:00pm
- Lab 2 has been issued.
Week of September 7, 2009
- This week's to-do list:
- The first meeting of 6.111 will be at lecture on Thursday,
9/10 at 2:30p in 32-144 (note room change!).
Consult the Course calendar
for schedule of lectures and labs.
- Please take a moment to read the
Course info page which describes course
mechanics and policies.
- Gim Hom will be giving demos in the 6.111 lab (38-600) on how to use
the logic analyzer and labkit -- info you'll want to know for completing
the labs! Here's the demo schedule (each demo is offered multiple times):
- Logic Analyzer:
- Sunday, 9/13, at 7:00pm and 9:00pm
- Monday, 9/14, at 7:00pm and 9:00pm
- Labkit:
- Sunday, 9/20, at 7:00pm and 9:00pm
- Monday, 9/21, at 7:00pm and 9:00pm
- Lab #1 has been issued.
Bring the Lab Kit Signout form
to the 6.111 lab (38-600) to check out a kit of parts, tools and test
equipment leads you'll need to work on the labs. Checkout times are
- Thursday, 9/9, 6p - 9p
- Sunday, 9/13, 3p - 6p