Welcome to CSE370

• Instructor: Chris Diorio

• TA: Miguel Figueroa

• Web: http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/370/CurrentQtr/

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• Why are we here?

  • Required class
  • To learn about the physical devices that underlie digital computing
  • Insights to the future? logic synthesis compiles code into hardware
  • Exposure to new ideas
    • Emergent behavior from large numbers of simple elements:
      • With NORs and wire, you can build the entire web
    • Inherent parallelism…exposure to parallel computation

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