Added this diagram
to the solution of Problem 2 (a predicate problem) in the Spring 2002 Final Exam.
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14 December 2002, 14:39:51 CST
I wracked my brains out and finally wrote up a currently accurate, full, and complete solution for Problem 3 that's less than 12,000 pages. See the Final Exam Solution. |
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14 December 2002, 11:12:32 CST
Course Grades Ready Okay, this is it: click here. The complete solution for the predictor problem will be posted later today. Have a good holiday everyone! |
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13 December 2002, 19:10:14 CST
Linked Final Exam Solution (some more stuff will be added to the predictor problem) to the previous work page. Grades will be available tomorrow. I need to sleep on it. Usually a good sign. |
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13 December 2002, 16:10:52 CST
Final Exam Grades Ready The average is 51.1 (the midterm average was 53.4), the range is [75,22]. Brace yourself and click here. Course grades will be posted later today or tomorrow. The next grading update will be posted tonight, whether or not course grades are ready. A final exam solution will also be posted later. |
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13 December 2002, 11:32:24 CST
The grading continues. Exam grades should be available this afternoon. Course grades may be available today. The next grading update will be posted this afternoon. |
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12 December 2002, 18:19:51 CST
Problems 1 and 2 graded. Exam grades should be available tomorrow. Problem 2 suffered from a mistake in part b (should have been t4, not t5) and misleading wording in part c. (The defect is in recovering the ID map after a branch misprediction. The question should not have led one to believe that recovering after an exception would also be affected. The intended correct answer was that execution would be correct because the commit map, which is correct, would replace the ID map.) |
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12 December 2002, 12:28:57 CST
It's over, and now the waiting begins... Linked the Final Exam to the previous work page. A solution will be posted later. Exam grades will probably be available tomorrow afternoon, or maybe even tonight. Course grades will be available tomorrow. A grading update will be posted late this afternoon. |
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10 December 2002, 17:05:48 CST
Added this diagram
to the solution of Problem 2 (a predicate problem) in the Spring 2002 Final Exam.
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10 December 2002, 16:04:07 CST
As of now, there have only been six downloads of the Cache Notes and Study Guide. It's only four pages and one of those is a very handy diagram. It's easy! It's free! It's fun! (Okay, that's a bit of a stretch.) Don't miss out! |
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10 December 2002, 15:47:20 CST
Linked Midterm Exam and its solution to the previous work page. |
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8 December 2002, 15:27:42 CST
Linked Homework 6 Solution to the previous work page. |
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7 December 2002, 14:22:46 CST
Linked Homework 5 Solution to the previous work page. |
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7 December 2002, 11:13:04 CST
Linked Homework 4 Solution to the previous work page. Additional solutions and possibly study guides will be posted before the exam. |
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6 December 2002, 18:52:37 CST
A Cache Notes and Study Guide is now available. It includes a description of common cache problem types. |
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6 December 2002, 11:47:06 CST
Linked Final Exam Review Topics to the lectures page. Over the next several days solutions and other study materials will be posted. |
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4 December 2002, 14:22:40 CST
The makeup class will be tomorrow, Thursday 5 December 2002 (the 2002 is for future generations who may find the page by a search, not realizing it is centuries out of date) at 16:30 (4:30 PM) in Room 117 EE Building. Linked Set 13, Caches and Memory, to the lectures pages. Don't forget to do Homework 6. For best results, attempt it before tomorrow's class. |
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3 December 2002, 12:40:03 CST
PSE now runs on the ECE Linux machines. Before trying it on Linux re-run setup, following the slightly modified instructions. The Linux machines are faster and they display colors better. |
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1 December 2002, 19:18:28 CST
Thanks to Delta Airlines, there will be no class on Monday, 2 December 2002. We will try to schedule a makeup class. |
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27 November 2002, 11:46:08 CST
FYI, the final exam will be on Thursday, 12 December 2002 from 10:00 to 12:00. |
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26 November 2002, 13:16:55 CST
Homework 6 assigned. It will not be collected however the final exam will be written under the assumption that it was completed. (There may be questions similar to Homework 6. |
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22 November 2002, 18:17:40 CST
Posted simplified account setup instructions. Those who followed the instructions before about 16:31 on Friday 22 November 2002 will have to get a new copy of .cshrc (or run setup, see the new account setup instructions). |
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22 November 2002, 10:24:43 CST
Homework 5 assigned, due Tuesday, 3 December 2002. |
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20 November 2002, 12:32:52 CST
Linked Set 12, Branch Prediction, to the lectures page. |
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20 November 2002, 10:27:25 CST
Homework 4 assigned, due Wednesday, 27 November 2002. A Homework 5 may be assigned before the break. |
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15 November 2002, 13:08:11 CST
Linked Set 9, Long Latency (Floating Point), Set 11, VLIW and Superscalar, and Set 10, Dynamic Scheduling, to the lectures page. Due Monday, 18 November is Spring 2002 Homework 4. |
27 October 2002, 14:21:57 CST
MIDTERM EXAM ADVISORY NUMBER 6 EE 4720, LSU, BATON ROUGE, LA 14:30 CST SUN OCT 27 2002 ...EXAM DAMAGE REPORTS [grades] AVAILABLE... EXAM DAMAGE REPORTS [grades] ARE AVAILABLE. GRADE RANGE IN [85,24]...GRADES WIDELY DISTRIBUTED. A LIST OF GRADES BY ALIAS AND A GRAPHICAL PRODUCT ARE AVAILABLE AT HTTP://WWW.ECE.LSU.EDU/EE4720/GRADES.HTML (ALL LOWER CASE). THOSE WHO DID LESS WELL STILL HAVE TIME TO IMPROVE BEFORE THE FINAL. THE EMBARGO ON EXAM CONTENTS CONTINUES UNTIL TUESDAY AFTERNOON. DO NOT DISCLOSE CONTENTS OF EXAM. FOR THOSE WHO HAVENT RECOGNIZED IT, THESE ADVISORIES ARE PLAYFULLY MODELED AFTER THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER PUBLIC ADVISORIES, SUCH AS THIS ONE. KOPPELMAN |
26 October 2002, 16:27:49 CDT
MIDTERM EXAM ADVISORY NUMBER 5 EE 4720, LSU, BATON ROUGE, LA 16:30 CDT SAT OCT 26 2002 ...PROBLEM 1 GRADED... PROBLEM 1 HAS BEEN GRADED...THE COMPLETE EXAM SHOULD BE GRADED BY TOMORROW AFTERNOON. REMEMBER TO NOT DISCLOSE THE CONTENTS OF THE EXAM UNTIL AFTER THE LAST STUDENT TAKES IT, BY TUESDAY. THE NEXT ADVISORY WILL BE TOMORROW AFTERNOON. KOPPELMAN |
25 October 2002, 17:55:35 CDT
MIDTERM EXAM ADVISORY NUMBER 4 EE 4720, LSU, BATON ROUGE, LA 17:56 CDT FRI OCT 25 2002 ...EXAMS MAY BE GRADED TOMORROW... THE EXAM WILL BE GRADED BY TOMORROW AFTERNOON...POSSIBLY SUNDAY. THE NEXT ADVISORY WILL BE TOMORROW AFTERNOON. KOPPELMAN |
25 October 2002, 11:49:00 CDT
MIDTERM EXAM ADVISORY NUMBER 3 EE 4720, LSU, BATON ROUGE, LA 11:49 CDT FRI OCT 25 2002 ...MIDTERM EXAM GIVEN...DO NOT DISCLOSE... THE MIDTERM EXAM WAS GIVEN AT 10:30 CDT...1530Z NEAR 30.4 NORTH...LONGITUDE 91.2 WEST. A STUDENT WAS UNABLE TO ATTEND...DO NOT DISCUSS OR OTHERWISE DISCLOSE THE CONTENTS OF THE EXAM WITH THIS STUDENT. THE EXAM AND A SOLUTION WILL BE POSTED AFTER THE STUDENT TAKES THE EXAM. EXAM DAMAGE REPORTS [grades] WILL BE AVAILABLE BEFORE MONDAY. THE NEXT MIDTERM EXAM ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THIS EVENING. KOPPELMAN |
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24 October 2002, 16:57:15 CDT
Linked Homework 2 Solution to the previous work page. |
23 October 2002, 12:24:02 CDT
MIDTERM EXAM ADVISORY NUMBER 2 EE 4720, LSU, BATON ROUGE, LA 12:24 CDT WED OCT 23 2002 ...MIDTERM EXAM REVIEW NOTES AND MODIFIED FALL 2001 MIDTERM POSTED... THE MIDTERM EXAM BRIEFING NOTES AND SET 8, INTERRUPTS, WERE LINKED TO THE lectures PAGE. A MIPS SOLUTION WAS ADDED TO PROBLEM 3 OF THE FALL 2001 MIDTERM EXAM. (THE DLX SOLUTION IS STILL THERE.) BE SURE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ALL STUDY MATERIALS AND TO RUSH EXAM PREPARATION ACTIVITIES TO COMPLETION BY FRIDAY 10:30 CDT..1530Z. KOPPELMAN |
14 October 2002, 12:50:22 CDT
MIDTERM EXAM ADVISORY NUMBER 1 EE 4720, LSU, BATON ROUGE, LA 12:40 AM CDT MON OCT 14 2002 ...MIDTERM EXAM DATE SET... AN EE 4720 MIDTERM EXAM IS EXPECTED AT 10:30 CDT...1530Z ON FRIDAY 25 OCTOBER 2002 NEAR 30.4 NORTH...LONGITUDE 91.2 WEST. BE SURE TO BRING ALL EXAM PREPARATION ACTIVITIES TO COMPLETION BY THIS TIME. AN EXAM BRIEFING [review session] WILL BE HELD ON THE WEDNESDAY BEFORE THE EXAM. KOPPELMAN |
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7 October 2002, 12:23:14 CDT
Thanks to Lili, changed Homework 2 due date to 14 October. Linked Set 6, Pipelined and Unpipelined Implementations to the lectures page. |
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2 October 2002, 19:44:32 CDT
Assigned Homework 2, due 9 October hurricane permitting. Added a new References Web page with links to your favorite ISA manuals and other material. |
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25 September 2002, 10:14:41 CDT
Linked Homework 1 solution, to the previous work page. |
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23 September 2002, 12:29:48 CDT
Linked Set 3, Instruction Set Design, and Set 4, CTI and Other Instructions, to the lectures page. |
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13 September 2002, 9:51:46 CDT
Linked Homework 1, due 18 September 2002 to the previous work page. |
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9 September 2002, 9:35:23 CDT
Updated Set Opt, Optimization, and linked Set Misc, ISA Families, MIPS and DLX, to the lectures page. |
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30 August 2002, 10:26:51 CDT
Linked Set 2, CPU Performance Equation and Benchmarks, and Set Opt, Optimization (Under Construction), to the lectures page. |
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19 August 2002, 14:10:53 CDT
Removed grades and some Spring 2002 information, added some Fall 2002 information. |
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19 August 2002, 14:10:45 CDT
Spring 2002 What's New |
| David M. Koppelman - koppel@ece.lsu.edu | Modified 17 Dec 2002 8:44 (1444 UTC) |