EE 4720 - What's New


9 December 2010, 11:32:36 CST
Grading Update 6: Course Grades Ready. Here we are, at the point where all you have done this semester is condensed down to three bits of information (the minimum number of bits to encode an LSU course grade). Prepare yourself and click here, and maybe refresh the page.

8 December 2010, 18:03:22 CST
Grading Update 5: Homework and course average ready. To see the homework grades and course average click here. Course grades will be available tomorrow.

8 December 2010, 16:26:51 CST
Grading Update 4: Remaining homework grades will be posted by about 18:00 tonight, along with an average. Course grades may also be posted at that time. Otherwise, course grades will be posted Thursday. (As a rule of thumb, the longer I think about grade cutoffs the higher the grades become.)

7 December 2010, 17:12:20 CST
Grading Update 3: Course average should be available tomorrow, course grades will be ready by tomorrow or Thursday.

7 December 2010, 13:05:52 CST
Grading Update 2b: Final Exam Grades Ready The good news is that the average is a few points higher than the midterm. But the range is still wide [80,25]. For best results run a modern Web browser (implementing SVG and MathML) and click here.

7 December 2010, 11:57:19 CST
Grading Update 2: Problems 1-6 graded, 7 partly graded. Exam grades should be posted within an hour, or longer depending on how difficult it is to render a particular alias. :-)

6 December 2010, 16:34:19 CST
Grading Update 1: Problems 1-4 graded, the final exam grades will be available tomorrow, probably before noon. The next grading update will be posted by noon tomorrow.

6 December 2010, 10:07:23 CST
Grading Update 0: Grading starting now. Final exam grades may be available late today, course grades are forecast to be available by Monday Wednesday. The next grading update will be posted at about 17:00.

4 December 2010, 14:36:57 CST
For a diagram of a gshare branch predictor see the solution to the Fall 2007 final exam Problem 2c and also see Spring 2008 Final Exam Problem 2b.

3 December 2010, 12:14:13 CST
An extra review class will be held Saturday, 4 December 2010 at 11:00 in Room 117 EE Building. If the building doors are locked look for a note on the main entrance.

3 December 2010, 10:23:06 CST
Linked Final Exam Review to the lectures page.

2 December 2010, 13:44:47 CST
Linked Midterm Exam Solution to the Homework & Exams page.

2 December 2010, 12:55:03 CST
Linked complete Spring 2010 Final Exam Solution to the Homework & Exams page. This means that Homework 8 problem solutions are availabe (since they were taken from the exam).

2 December 2010, 12:33:32 CST
Updated Spring 2010 Final Exam Problem 3. This makes Problem 3 more interesting, so I suggest re-solving it as practice for the exam. The change is the inclusion of the branch displacement in the BHT.

1 December 2010, 14:19:26 CST
Linked Memory and Caches lecture slides to the lectures page. An extra review class may be held over the weekend. Check back for details.

22 November 2010, 16:13:02 CST
Linked Dynamic Scheduling lecture slides, and also Branch Prediction and Floating Point lecture slides. For additional help on dynamic scheduling see the Dynamic Scheduling study guide.

17 November 2010, 9:51:44 CST
Homework 8 assigned, due Wednesday, 24 November 2010. These are recycled final exam questions so please use the opportunity to get some early studying done!

4 November 2010, 17:20:56 CDT
Grading Update 4:Midterm exam grades ready! The grades range from 85 to 15. Sit down, compose yourself and click here.

4 November 2010, 15:42:48 CDT
Grading Update 3: Grading continues. Grades should be available later this afternoon. The next grading update will be posted around 18:00.

4 November 2010, 11:29:51 CDT
Grading Update 2: Problems 1-3 graded, 4 mostly graded. Grades should be available by the late afternoon. The next grading update will be posted by 16:00.

3 November 2010, 16:30:54 CDT
Grading Update 1: Problems 1 and 2 graded, 3 partially graded. Grades will not be available until tomorrow. Based on a few samples the aliases look good, better than I've seen in years. It looks like I'll have to assemble a jury of world-renowned aliasists to judge the best alias contest at the end of the semester. And while I'm on the topic, someone provided two aliases. Should that person be disqualified? The next grading update will be posted by 12:00 tomorrow.

3 November 2010, 13:51:28 CDT
Grading Update 0: Linked the Midterm Exam to the Homework & Exams page. Grades will be available later today or Thursday. The next grading update will be posted about 17:00 today.

2 November 2010, 10:52:05 CDT
Posted complete Spring 2010 Midterm Solution.

2 November 2010, 9:32:05 CDT
Posted Homework 7 solution (the solution to the 2010 Spring Final Exam problems 1 and 5). Additional Spring 2010 midterm exam solutions will be posted later today.

1 November 2010, 16:16:26 CDT
Come to think of it, Homework 7 solution might not be posted tonight. See yellow part of previous whats-new entry:

1 November 2010, 15:41:15 CDT
Linked Homework 6 solution to the Homework & Exams page. A solution to Homework 7 will be available later today if everyone turns in a solution before I leave. Otherwise, it will be posted tomorrow morning. (Yellow stuff is an update.)

1 November 2010, 10:31:05 CDT
Linked Midterm Exam Review to the lectures page.

27 October 2010, 11:40:50 CDT
Homework 7 assigned, due Monday, 1 November 2010. Homework 7 is to solve two problems from last semester's final exam, with the help of grading criteria.

25 October 2010, 11:41:31 CDT
Linked Set 9, Long-Latency (e.g., Floating Point) Operations to the lectures page.

Don't forget, the midterm exam will be held Wednesday, 3 November 2010.

17 October 2010, 11:21:27 CDT
Added pi program to lectures page (under entry for Set 2.1, Compiler Optimization. Added Set 2, Benchmarks and Set 8 Interrupts, Exceptions, and Traps to the lectures page.

Don't forget that Homework 6 is due 20 October 2010.

13 October 2010, 10:30:07 CDT
Homework 6 assigned, due 20 October 2010.

8 October 2010, 9:17:37 CDT
Linked Set 2.1, Compiler Optimization, to the lectures page.

4 October 2010, 18:19:58 CDT
Linked Homework 3 Solution to the Homework & Exams page.

4 October 2010, 14:51:56 CDT
Linked Homework 1 Solution and Homework 2 Solution to the Homework & Exams page.

30 September 2010, 14:54:28 CDT
Wording of Homework 4 improved. That is, the description of some of the problems was clarified, though the problems themselves were not changed.

29 September 2010, 12:48:47 CDT
Linked Set 2.7, ISA Families Overview and MIPS v. SPARC to the lectures page.

29 September 2010, 10:31:52 CDT
Homework 4 and Homework 5 assigned. Homework 4 is due Monday, 4 October 2010 and Homework 5 is due Wednesday, 6 October 2010.

29 September 2010, 9:37:56 CDT
Linked VAX-11 Architecture Reference Manual (1982) to the references page;

17 September 2010, 10:21:25 CDT
Homework 3 assigned, due Wednesday 22 September 2010.

10 September 2010, 10:27:05 CDT
Homework 1 and Homework 2 assigned. HW 1 due Wednesday, 15 September 2010 and HW 2 due Friday, 17 September 2010.

3 September 2010, 10:05:36 CDT
Linked MIPS code example (int to hex string) and Set 6, MIPS Pipelined Implementation to lectures page.

23 August 2010, 10:08:39 CDT
Linked Set 1, course overview and MIPS Overview to the lectures page.

23 August 2010, 9:09:45 CDT
Set up Web pages for Fall 2010 semester.

Spring 2010
Spring 2010 What's New


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