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10 May 2015, 10:42:40 CDT
Grading Update 8: Course Grades Ready The wait is finally over. Prepare yourself, maybe make sure that nobody is looking, and click here. (You may need to refresh after clicking that link due to a Web server bug.) When you're done don't forget to call your mom, and have a good summer! |
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9 May 2015, 18:02:19 CDT
Grading Update 7: The good news: no one will fail the course. The bad news: I won't be posting grades until tomorrow. Check back at about noon. |
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8 May 2015, 17:58:09 CDT
Grading Update 6: Homework and course average grades might be available tomorrow. Course grades might be available tomorrow too. If not, take solace in the fact that the more time I think about grade cutoffs, the more lenient I get. |
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8 May 2015, 14:48:14 CDT
Grading Update 5: Final Exam Grades Ready The range was [89,18] with a median of 57, a six-point improvement over the midterm. Of course, the most important grade is yours. To find it, click here. Even if you don't care about your grade, check out the clever aliases. A final average including all the homework may be posted over the weekend. The next grading update will be posted by about 18:00 tonight. |
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7 May 2015, 18:05:37 CDT
Grading Update 4: Problems 1 and 2 graded, Problem 3 mostly graded. Exam grades will probably be available tomorrow afternoon. |
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6 May 2015, 17:59:55 CDT
Grading Update 3: Problem 1 graded. Exam grades should be available late afternoon tomorrow. |
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5 May 2015, 17:41:01 CDT
Grading Update 2: Still no grading yet, but grading should start tomorrow before noon. Exam grades might be available Wednesday night. For course grades one might have to wait until the weekend or later. |
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4 May 2015, 17:59:13 CDT
Grading Update 1: No grading yet. I did look over some exams and was pleased that many had the right idea for Problem 1. However none of the solutions I looked at so far used a mux at the input to the register file so that the slot 0 rs register number would be used for the slot 1 register number. Instead most added a connection to one of the FA-ALU muxen to deliver rsv0. Obviously, a 2-input, 5-bit mux is cheaper than another input to an existing 32-bit mux. The next grading update will be posted by 18:00 tomorrow. |
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4 May 2015, 12:13:51 CDT
Grading Update 0: Linked the Final Exam to the Homework & Exams page. Grading should start this afternoon. Exam grades will probably be available tomorrow and course grades will be available later this week. Good luck on all of your finals! |
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1 May 2015, 14:43:52 CDT
Linked the complete 2014 final exam solution to the Homework & Exams page. Note that this includes the cache problem assigned in Homework 6. |
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1 May 2015, 10:36:15 CDT
Linked the final exam review slides to the lectures page. |
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29 April 2015, 17:03:54 CDT
Office hours on Thursday, 30 April 2015 will be delayed until after a potentially long meeting. Those needing to see me can stop by before 11:00 or after about 15:30. I should be in my office until 18:00. |
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29 April 2015, 9:24:40 CDT
Linked cache lecture slides to the lectures page. |
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27 April 2015, 12:54:00 CDT
About 20 minutes of Monday's class was held, for those able to make it in. To make the best use of remaining time, Homework 6 will be due by Wednesday evening. For help with the homework make use of the Cache study guide linked to study guides. Also look at past final exam solutions. |
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26 April 2015, 18:03:47 CDT
Linked the solution to the 2014 final exam, excluding Problem 4, to the Homework & Exams page. Also linked the solution to Homework 4 to the Homework & Exams page. (For the Homework 5 solution just use the appropriate problems from the 2014 final exam.) |
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22 April 2015, 9:25:56 CDT
Homework 6 assigned, due Wednesday, 29 April 1015. |
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17 April 2015, 15:38:04 CDT
Linked Set 12, Branch Prediction and some other lecture notes to the lectures page. |
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17 April 2015, 8:17:27 CDT
Homework 5 assigned, due Wednesday, 22 April 2015. |
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26 March 2015, 17:22:53 CDT
Homework 4 assigned, due Wednesday, 1 April 2015. |
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25 March 2015, 10:54:45 CDT
Linked the Midterm Exam solution to the Homework & Exams page. Longer discussions will be added later to the solutions to Problem 1 and Problem 4b. |
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24 March 2015, 19:41:32 CDT
Grading Update 4: Midterm Exam Grades Ready The range was [20,94] with a median of 51. To find the most important grade click here. The exams will be returned in class tomorrow. |
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24 March 2015, 18:51:18 CDT
Grading Update 3: Problems 1-5 graded, Problem 6 (the last one) partially graded. Exam grades should be available within an hour. |
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24 March 2015, 16:48:47 CDT
Grading Update 2: Problems 1 and 2 graded. Grades should be available by this evening. The next grading update will be posted by about 19:00. |
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24 March 2015, 13:17:35 CDT
Grading Update 1: Grading has finally started. Grades should be available by this evening. The next grading update will be posted by about 17:00. |
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23 March 2015, 8:34:58 CDT
Grading Update 0: Linked Midterm Exam to the Homework & Exams page. I haven't gotten back the midterms, as soon as I do, which should be this afternoon, grading will start. |
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18 March 2015, 11:12:29 CDT
Updated the solution to Homework 3. The critical path problem pointed out by a student has been fixed, but it is not the fix given in class. The posted solution now includes both the fixed-shared-adder solution and the pass-the-target-to-EX solution. |
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18 March 2015, 8:36:12 CDT
Linked the Homework 3 solution to the Homework & Exams page. |
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16 March 2015, 9:20:48 CDT
Linked the midterm exam review and Set 2 - Benchmarks to the lectures page. Don't forget, Homework 3 will be recollected today. |
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12 March 2015, 18:18:10 CDT
Homework 3 will be returned in class on Friday ungraded and re-collected on Monday. The original assignment had a typo in Problem 2. Many students read the problem description carefully enough so that in part (a) they read what I meant to write (resolve in EX), not what I actually wrote (resolve in ID). It would be difficult to assign a meaningful grade if both interpretations were assumed. Please resubmit the assignment on Monday, 16 March. The posted assignment has been corrected. |
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6 March 2015, 9:16:15 CST
Homework 3 assigned, due 11 March 2015. |
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3 March 2015, 14:44:25 CST
Linked the Homework 2 solution to the Homework & Exams page. |
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27 February 2015, 14:37:10 CST
Linked ISA Families Overview, MIPS/SPARC Comparison slides to the lectures page. |
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24 February 2015, 17:47:01 CST
Linked Homework 1 solution to the Homework & Exams page. Please look at and understand the solution to Homework 1 before finishing Homework 2. |
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20 February 2015, 9:13:45 CST
Good news for those itching to make ISA design decisions and to design some iron (hardware): Homework 2 assigned, due 27 February 2015. |
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10 February 2015, 15:17:50 CST
Homework 1 assigned, due 20 February 2015. Also, linked MIPS Implementation slides to the lectures page. That page also has links to some sample problems. |
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23 January 2015, 13:19:52 CST
Linked Array Example and Floating Point lecture slides to the lectures page. |
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21 January 2015, 14:57:25 CST
Linked the hex string example that we finished in class today to the lectures page. The lectures page contains another non-live version. |
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16 January 2015, 17:33:59 CST
Linked the hex string example that we started in class to the lectures page. Also linked the completed hex string code and a MIPS review to the lectures page. |
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19 December 2014, 13:09:57 CST
Set up pages for the Spring 2015 semester. |
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Spring 2014
Spring 2014 What's New |
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