EE 3755 - What's New

20 May 2002, 15:46:21 CDT
Course Grades Modified Due to an error in computing course averages the grades have been reposted. Letter grades have changed, the only change is up so if you got an A this doesn't affect you. It also does not affect those who got lower than a C.

20 May 2002, 12:23:59 CDT
Course Grades Ready The time has come, click here. A solution will be posted in a few days. Have a good summer and I hope to see many of your in EE 4720.

19 May 2002, 18:21:05 CDT
Course grades should be available tomorrow before noon, or perhaps a bit later. The next grading update will, of course, be tomorrow later morning or early afternoon.

18 May 2002, 17:58:36 CDT
Welcome to the Saturday afternoon grading update. Grades may be available tomorrow, more likely on Monday. That concludes the Saturday afternoon grading update. The next grading update will be posted by Sunday evening.

17 May 2002, 18:57:35 CDT
Final Exam Grades Ready The good news: The average is nearly ten points higher than the midterm. The bad news (for some): so is the standard deviation, meaning that some people did really bad. Some people did really good too, one person aced the exam. The full range is [15,100]. If you gave an alias or want to see the distribution click here.

Course grades will be determined by Monday, maybe Sunday, maybe even Tuesday if things go slowly. Regardless of your grade, have a good weekend! The next grading update will be posted Saturday afternoon (though not much will happen by then).

17 May 2002, 12:00:03 CDT
Welcome to the noon grading update. Problem 1 has been graded and Problem 2 is partially graded. I'm pleased that many people gave a one-pass solution to Problem 2. For those that don't know, split can be wrapped in a recursive routine to implement a sort. (Hmmm, that could have been Problem 2b. :-) ) While waiting for the grades some of you--and you know who you are--might want to look up the etymology of foobar (if you don't already know it).
Final exam grades may be available this evening. Other grades will be available over the weekend or later. The next grading update will be this evening.

16 May 2002, 19:17:10 CDT
Grading Update: Part way through Problem 1. That's it for now. The next grading update will be Friday around noon.

16 May 2002, 15:12:42 CDT
Linked Final Exam to the assignments and exams page. The final exam may be graded by Friday afternoon. After that remaining homeworks will be graded and final grades will be determined and posted. Grading updates will be issued at least once per day, the first grading update (or second, if this counts as a grading update) will be issued this evening.
In the meantime, good luck on this and other exams.

13 May 2002, 9:17:06 CDT
Linked Final Exam Topics to the lectures page.

10 May 2002, 14:38:46 CDT
A review session has been scheduled for 18:00 (6 pm) on Tuesday, 14 May 2002 in room 117 EE Building.

10 May 2002, 11:44:42 CDT
Linked MIPS Hardwired Control Live, Day 5 to the lectures page. A final exam review notes will be posted this afternoon.

7 May 2002, 11:38:04 CDT
Linked MIPS Hardwired Control Live, Day 3 and Linked MIPS Hardwired Control Live, Day 4 to the lectures page.

3 May 2002, 11:40:34 CDT
Linked MIPS Hardwired Control Live, Day 2 to the lectures page.

29 April 2002, 15:22:20 CDT
Linked MIPS Functional Simulator Live, Day 3, Finished (as it will get) MIPS Functional Simulator, and just-started MIPS Hardwired Control Multicycle MIPS to the lectures page. Also made minor updates to Set 13. Problem 4 in the Practice Final solution has an example of synthesized hardware for the implementation of MIPS that we started today.

24 April 2002, 19:05:26 CDT
Linked Homework 4 solution (I realize that's not the homework solution you want at the moment :-) ) to the assignments and exams page.

24 April 2002, 14:54:21 CDT
Linked MIPS implementation written in class, to the lectures page.

24 April 2002, 12:11:44 CDT
Linked MIPS implementation written in class, the histogram example, and Set 13, an overview of the MIPS implementations covered here and in EE 4720, to the lectures page.

22 April 2002, 16:13:25 CDT
The test code for Problem 2 in Homework 5 will incorrectly fail for the string "o". The correct number of o's should be 2796. A correct file has been posted. Here are the changed lines:

wc_words:
        .asciiz "  The"
        .asciiz "can't"
        .asciiz "troubles"
        .asciiz "the"
        .asciiz "o"
        .asciiz "l"
        .asciiz ""

wc_long_counts:
        .word 81, 2, 0, 534, 2796, 1231, 0
wc_short_counts:
        .word 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 0

19 April 2002, 16:34:53 CDT
Linked string length example covered in class to the lectures page.

19 April 2002, 16:28:32 CDT
Grades for Homework 3 E-mailed (to the class accounts).

17 April 2002, 17:42:02 CDT
Homework 5 assigned, due Wednesday, 24 April 2002.

15 April 2002, 12:17:07 CDT
Linked Set 11, Object Files and System Calls, and Set 12, Loads and Stores to the lectures page.

12 April 2002, 12:13:21 CDT
Linked Set 10, Control Transfer Instructions to the lectures page.

27 March 2002, 11:24:08 CST
Linked Set 9, MIPS basics to the lectures page.

24 March 2002, 11:52:38 CST
Midterm Exam grades ready! First the statistics: Average, 48.5; median, 45; range, [24,79]. With that in mind click here.

Also, the solution has been linked to the assignments and exams page.

23 March 2002, 16:04:59 CST
Welcome to the Saturday evening grading update. Grades will be posted by tomorrow afternoon. Depending upon your nutritional needs, plan to have lunch either before or after checking your grades. We'll talk more about the grades in class on Monday. The last grading update (until after the Final Exam) will be tomorrow afternoon.

22 March 2002, 19:30:04 CST
Welcome to the Friday evening grading update. Problems 1 and 2 have been graded, the entire exam may be graded by Sunday evening. The next grading update will be posted by Saturday evening. Thank you for reading the Friday evening grading update. This concludes the Friday evening grading update.

22 March 2002, 15:40:47 CST
Linked Midterm Exam to the assignments and exams page. A grading update will be posted here, hopefully before 20:00 tonight.

21 March 2002, 9:49:28 CST
The hint in Problem 3 of Homework 4 was mis-worded. It should read: "Hint: Use a state machine to control the instantiated multiplier." (It used to say two multipliers.) The posted version is now correct.

20 March 2002, 18:02:29 CST
Linked Midterm Exam Review to the lectures page.

20 March 2002, 10:52:12 CST
Linked solution to Homework 3 to the assignments and exams page.

18 March 2002, 14:56:35 CST
Linked Set 8, Floating Point, to the lectures page.

13 March 2002, 11:42:51 CST
Homework 4 assigned, due Monday, 25 March 2002. However, start doing the homework before the exam, it's a good way to study and the test will be written assuming you've seen the homework.

11 March 2002, 11:17:10 CST
Linked Set 7, Integer Multiplication and Division, to the lectures page.

28 February 2002, 18:43:52 CST
Homework 3 assigned, due Friday, 8 March 2002.

Grades for Homework 1 E-mailed to class accounts. Homework 1 solution linked to the assignments and exams page.

22 February 2002, 14:51:41 CST
Linked Set 6, Procedural Code, to the lectures page.

15 February 2002, 11:37:29 CST
Homework 2 assigned, due Friday, 22 February 2002.

13 February 2002, 17:43:28 CST
Linked Set 5, Integer Arithmetic, to the lectures page.

6 February 2002, 16:31:31 CST
Linked Set 3, Timing and Delays, and Set 4, Synthesis, to the lectures page. Set 3 has an example of showing the event queue that was not (yet) covered in class and did not appear in last year's notes.

5 February 2002, 16:05:33 CST
Here are answers to two homework FAQs:

The homework assignments will automatically be collected by the TA-bot several minutes after midnight on Thursday. (Technically, that's Friday morning.)

The testbench for Problems 2 and 3 (the ones copied before 5 February 2002, 16:16:01 CST), test_atoi tests both Problems 2 and 3 and will stop on the first error it finds. If you're working on Problem 2 and haven't started Problem 3 it's not very helpful to have the testbench stop on a Problem 3 error since you'd have no way of knowing if there were any errors in the Problem 2 solution. Mea culpa. There are two workarounds. To have the testbench list all errors change the "stop_on_error" parameter value in the test_atoi testbench from 1 to 0. Or, change the instantiation of the Problem 3 module to Problem 2 (instantiating two of them) in the testbench. If the second workaround is used, don't forget to change them back before proceeding to Problem 3.

1 February 2002, 17:45:21 CST
Linked the logical equality and greater than modules to the lectures page.

1 February 2002, 16:20:43 CST
Homework 1 assigned, due 7 February 2002.

31 January 2002, 14:37:29 CST
Class accounts set up. Accounts will be distributed in class tomorrow, but anyone who has gotten an account in advance can now log in. (Homework 1 has not yet been assigned.)

27 January 2002, 12:54:17 CST
Linked lecture code Set 1, Modules, and Set 2, Expressions, to the lectures page.

23 January 2002, 11:48:32 CST
Linked lecture slides Set 0, Course Overview, and Set 1, Electronic Design Automation to the lectures page.

11 January 2002, 15:59:21 CST
Removed grades and some Fall 2001 information, added some Spring 2002 information.

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