EE 4755 - What's New


11 December 2016, 15:02:29 CST
Grading Update 4c: Grades Ready The final exam and course grades, along with homework grades and coursework averages, have been linked to the grades page. For better or worse, there's no easy way to look at your final exam grade without seeing your course grade first. (Greasemonkey script idea?) When you're ready, click here. I'd like to thank everyone for participating, have a good break!

11 December 2016, 14:43:29 CST
Grading Update 4b: Final exam grades and course grades will be posted in about ten minutes. (For those with nothing else to do: the graphs showing the final exam and coursework averages are already posted. Try guessing their urls. They aren't linked to the grades page yet.)

11 December 2016, 13:57:27 CST
Grading Update 4: Final exam graded. The average was about the same as the average for the midterm. The results will be posted in about a half an hour, probably with course grades.

10 December 2016, 17:53:38 CST
Grading Update 3: Relax, final exam grades will not be available until tomorrow. The next grading update will be posted tomorrow by about 14:00.

10 December 2016, 12:49:31 CST
Grading Update 2: Final exam grades should be available by tonight. The next grading update will be posted by about 18:00.

9 December 2016, 18:18:04 CST
Grading Update 1: Grading will start now and final exam grades should be available some time tomorrow. The next grading update should be posted tomorrow about 13:00.

8 December 2016, 15:09:10 CST
Grading Update 0: Linked the Final Exam to the assignments and exams page. Grading will start tomorrow after GPU Programming grading is complete. The final exam grade (in this course) may be available tomorrow.

6 December 2016, 17:06:57 CST
The complete solution to the 2015 final exam is now available on the assignments and exams page.

6 December 2016, 11:49:15 CST
Linked solution to problems 1 and 2 of the 2015 final exam to the assignments and exams page. The complete solution will be posted later today.

2 December 2016, 13:36:45 CST
Linked the final exam review to the lectures page.

1 December 2016, 15:13:25 CST
Linked a preliminary solution to Homework 6 (commented verilog) to the assignments and exams page. A solution with diagrams of synthesized hardware will be available before the final exam.

28 November 2016, 13:33:18 CST
Corrected the link to pipelined multipliers on the lectures page.

21 November 2016, 17:28:54 CST
Linked Verilog code and slides from recent lectures to the lectures page.

18 November 2016, 18:15:31 CST
Updated the Homework 6 code with tracing functionality. Module mag_seq (Problem 1) has sample code for tracing simulation of your module. To activate it change the test number in the if statement. Similar code can be placed in the mag_pipe module.

17 November 2016, 13:47:45 CST
Homework 6 assigned, Due Tuesday, 29 November 2016. Don't put it off!!!

16 November 2016, 19:13:40 CST
Homework 6 will be assigned tomorrow.

14 November 2016, 13:36:12 CST
Linked a preliminary solution to Homework 5 to the assignments and exams page.

3 November 2016, 14:31:28 CDT
Linked the midterm exam solution to the assignments and exams page.

31 October 2016, 13:37:55 CDT
Class ended as we were discussing the cost tradeoffs between the combinational and sequential shifters. In preparation for Wednesday's class I asked everyone to think about the cost of the sequential shifter, and the width (w) at which a lg w-stage combinational shifter would cost the same as the sequential shifter (that included only one shift unit).

31 October 2016, 11:43:30 CDT
Homework 5 assigned, due Monday, 7 November 2016.

23 October 2016, 10:19:45 CDT
Grading Update 1: Midterm Exam Grades Ready The median grade was 50, the range was [23,87]. The good news is, there's plenty of time to improve things before the final exam. To see where you stand click here.

21 October 2016, 16:22:40 CDT
Grading Update 0: Linked the Midterm Exam to the assignments and exams page. Grading will start this afternoon or tomorrow and grades should be available over the weekend.

19 October 2016, 13:49:36 CDT
Linked the Midterm Exam review slides to the lectures page. Check back at this page occasionally to see if any additional study materials or tips are posted.

18 October 2016, 18:14:24 CDT
Linked the Fall 2015 Final Exam to the assignments and exams page. It might be helpful to look at Problem 6 to study for the midterm. The other problems might be recycled as homework assignments (due after the midterm, of course).

14 October 2016, 17:03:28 CDT
Linked the Homework 4 solution to the lectures page. A diagram may be added to the solution later today.

5 October 2016, 17:33:05 CDT
Linked the sequential synthesis slides to the lectures page.

4 October 2016, 15:18:11 CDT
Homework 4 assigned, due Wednesday, 12 October 2016..

3 October 2016, 10:29:28 CDT
Linked the Homework 3 solution to the assignments and exams page.

30 September 2016, 18:35:00 CDT
Added Generate/Elaborate notes and Synthesis of Behavioral Combinational Code notes (with illustrations) to the lectures page.

27 September 2016, 16:54:15 CDT
Added the Homework 2 solution to the assignments and exams page.

27 September 2016, 11:35:00 CDT
Added the Homework 1 solution to the assignments and exams page.

26 September 2016, 17:26:44 CDT
Homework 3 Problem 1b clarified. The bullet point providing a hint on the logic is_dig now points out that the logic generating is_dig includes the logic generating is_dig_09 and is_dig_af, and you should look for optimization in those expressions too.

23 September 2016, 10:15:33 CDT
Homework 3 assigned, due Wednesday, 28 September 2016. This is a paper-only assignment.

21 September 2016, 13:34:27 CDT
The deadline for Homework 2, has been extended to Thursday 22 September 2016. It will be copied by the TA-bot late that evening.

19 September 2016, 15:52:40 CDT
Note that Homework 2, is due Wednesday, 21Thursday 22 September 2016. It will be copied by the TA-bot late that evening.

17 September 2016, 19:16:53 CDT
Updated and added new lecture notes to the lectures page.

17 September 2016, 17:57:03 CDT
Added remote access instructions for Mac OSX and Linux to the procedures page. Instructions for Microsoft Windows were added earlier today.

17 September 2016, 16:06:58 CDT
Added remote access instructions for Microsoft Windows machines to the procedures page. Instructions for Mac OSX and Linux will be posted later today, as will additional notes.

16 September 2016, 18:18:46 CDT
Detailed instructions for remote access and class notes will be posted tomorrow. For now: Install a VPN client, see these instructions. Find a computer name here. Connect to that computer using PuTTY or some other SSH client.. Many Unix-derived systems, including Mac OSX, have an ssh client built in (no PuTTY needed). For those use, ssh -X NAME.ece.lsu.edu -l ee4702XX.

15 September 2016, 16:29:05 CDT
Homework 2, due Wednesday, 21 September 2016. Also updated the procedures page. Class accounts will be E-mailed soon.

14 September 2016, 21:10:34 CDT
Homework 2 will be assigned tomorrow. Sorry to disappoint.

6 September 2016, 17:31:11 CDT
Added some missing code to Problem 3 in Homework 1. (Some student may have guessed what was missing.)

4 September 2016, 17:37:16 CDT
Homework 1 assigned, due Friday, 9 September 2016.

3 September 2016, 18:50:38 CDT
The first homework will be assigned on Sunday, 4 September.

2 September 2016, 19:20:14 CDT
Linked Synthesis material to the lectures page. The first homework will be assigned tomorrow.

26 August 2016, 18:48:33 CDT
Added examples from today's lectures to the lectures page.

22 August 2016, 17:13:00 CDT
Linked first set of lecture slides and the multiplier demonstration to the lectures pages.

12 August 2016, 17:42:28 CDT
Set up pages for Fall 2016 semester.

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