12 May 2025, 15:41:08 CDT
Grading Update 4: Course Grades Ready To see homework grades, course average, and course letter grade click here. I'd like to thank everyone for their effort, good luck in your other courses, and have a great summer! |
11 May 2025, 15:45:41 CDT
Grading Update 3: Final Exam grades ready. The range was [90-24] with a median of 46.5, which was better than the midterm median of 41. To find the most important grade or just look at the aliases, click here. The remaining grades will be posted by tomorrow and course grades should be available by tomorrow afternoon. |
10 May 2025, 17:55:00 CDT
Grading Update 2: Problems 1 and 2 graded, Problem 3 partially graded. The final exam grades should be available tomorrow. Course grades will be available on Monday. The next grading update should be posted by 18:00 on Sunday. |
9 May 2025, 19:02:33 CDT
Grading Update 1: Problem 1 graded. Exam may be graded by Saturday evening. The next grading update should be posted at approximately 18:00 on Saturday, finished or not. |
8 May 2025, 9:10:52 CDT
Grading Update -1: The exam is in progress. Linked the Final Exam to the Homework & Exams page. Grading will start on Friday and Final Exam grades may be available Saturday or Sunday. Then Homework 7 grades, and finally course grades. These should be available by Tuesday morning. |
6 May 2025, 15:10:02 CDT
Linked the Final Exam Review slides and a link to a video recording of the review section (courtesy of Ricky Dille) to the lectures page. |
5 May 2025, 19:33:35 CDT
Linked the Homework 7 solution and the complete 2024 Final Exam solution to the Homework & Exams page. |
30 April 2025, 18:29:38 CDT
Linked the Homework 6 solution to the Homework & Exams page. |
30 April 2025, 14:17:47 CDT
Updated the wording to the second paragraph in Problem 2. In that second paragraph the "purple text" criterion for updating the BTB was described incorrectly. The purple text was always correct and the posted assignment is now correct. |
30 April 2025, 13:57:45 CDT
Linked the Cache slides to the lectures page. Don't forget that there will be a review during final exam week on Tuesday, 6 May in room 3285 PFT. |
29 April 2025, 15:20:07 CDT
Updated the 2024 Final Exam solution. It now includes solutions to all problems except the branch predictor and cache problems. Also linked the Homework 5 solution (the one non-final exam problem) to the Homework & Exams page. |
28 April 2025, 10:36:38 CDT
A final exam review session has been scheduled for 12:00-14:00 on Tuesday, 6 May 2025 in Room 3285 PFT. |
25 April 2025, 9:21:36 CDT
Homework 7 assigned, due Monday, 28 April 2025 at 7:30 (AM). Late submissions will be accepted without penalty until the evening of Wednesday 30 April. |
21 April 2025, 15:37:14 CDT
Added recent lecture material to the lectures page. |
16 April 2025, 16:41:15 CDT
Homework 6 assigned, due Wednesday, 23 April 2025. |
28 March 2025, 10:35:49 CDT
Linked recent notes to the lectures page. Don't forget that Homework 5 is due Monday, 7 April 2025. |
26 March 2025, 16:12:58 CDT
Homework 5 assigned, due Monday, 7 April 2025. |
24 March 2025, 9:22:31 CDT
Linked the Midterm Exam solution to the Homework & Exams page. |
23 March 2025, 11:31:12 CDT
Grading Update 3: Midterm Exam Grades Ready. The range was [85,6] with a median of 41. Remember that your midterm exam grade will be forgotten if you do better on the final exam. To see how you did or to just check out the aliases click here. |
22 March 2025, 17:43:13 CDT
Grading Update 2: Problems 1 and 2 graded. Midterm exam grades will be available tomorrow. The next grading update should be posted by about 12:00 (remember I use a 24 clock) tomorrow. |
21 March 2025, 18:00:13 CDT
Grading Update 1: Started grading Problem 1. Grades may be available on Sunday. The next grading update should be posted by approximately 18:00 tomorrow. |
21 March 2025, 11:08:16 CDT
Grading Update 0: Linked the Midterm Exam to the Homework & Exams page. Grading should start this afternoon and grades should be available over the weekend. The next grading update should be posted by 18:00 this evening. |
20 March 2025, 11:29:44 CDT
Fixed a typo in the list of FP practice problems in the floating point demo code. In particular, the new practice problem is 2017 Midterm Exam Problem 4. |
19 March 2025, 17:24:54 CDT
Linked the Homework 4 solution to the Homework & Exams page. Don't forget that the midterm exam is on Friday. |
17 March 2025, 15:05:45 CDT
Linked the Midterm Exam Review slides to the lectures page. Also, added some floating point MIPS instructions sample problems references to the Floating Point Demo Code. |
14 March 2025, 16:35:32 CDT
Linked recent lecture material to the lectures page. |
14 March 2025, 16:22:24 CDT
The Homework 3 solution linked to the Homework & Exams page. |
13 March 2025, 15:32:50 CDT
Homework 4 assigned, due Wednesday 19 March 2025 at 9:30 CDT. We will go over the solution so late submissions won't be accepted. |
7 March 2025, 10:39:32 CST
The Midterm Exam date has been set to Friday, 21 March 2025. |
6 March 2025, 10:47:45 CST
Linked the Homework 2 solution and a partial 2024 Final Exam solution to the Homework & Exams page. Homework 2 grades and midterm grades (based on the first two assignments) will be posted later today. |
5 March 2025, 12:32:10 CST
Fixed a problem in Homework 3 Problem 1 which made it unsolvable. The change was the value of signal A in cycle 2. It should be, and now is, blank. The assignment handout is the corrected one if it was formatted at or after 12:28 on 5 March. (See the upper right-hand side of the top of the assignment.) |
4 March 2025, 14:35:06 CST
Clarified Problem 2 in Homework 3 a bit more. |
1 March 2025, 12:04:55 CST
Clarified Problem 2 in Homework 3, and improved wording elsewhere. |
28 February 2025, 10:43:43 CST
Added a bit more about the hypothetical MIPS addsc instruction to Homework 3. |
28 February 2025, 9:23:38 CST
Homework 3 assigned, due Friday, 7 March 2025. |
19 February 2025, 17:59:21 CST
Linked recent material to the lectures page. Linked the Homework 1 solution to the Homework & Exams page. |
17 February 2025, 15:48:32 CST
Homework 2 assigned, due Friday, 21 February 2025. |
31 January 2025, 15:22:55 CST
Linked recent lecture material to the lectures page. Some have had problems getting into the lab. The lab should not be locked during business hours and your card is supposed to unlock the door (using the card swipe). However, the card swipe isn't working and probably won't be fixed earlier than Monday. |
29 January 2025, 17:07:31 CST
Homework 1 assigned, due Tuesday night, 4 February 2025. Computer accounts have just been E-mailed. Good luck! |
23 January 2025, 14:24:43 CST
Our snowy adventure is over, class will be in-person on Friday (24 January 2025). |
21 January 2025, 14:46:26 CST
Class will be held via Zoom on Wednesday 22 January 2025 at the usual time. You should have already received a Zoom MID and passcode for the class. If not, E-mail me. We will polish up the string length routine, review miscellaneous MIPS features, and then perhaps look at a faster string copy routine that uses an invented MIPS instruction (actually stolen from RISC-V). See 2022 Homework 1. |
20 January 2025, 10:47:16 CST
It is likely that Wednesday's class will be conducted via Zoom. In preparation Zoom meeting IDs and passcodes will be E-mailed later today. To avoid the embarrassment of joining a Zoom meeting that everyone else knows was never scheduled or canceled check the Web site in advance. (Class will not be held, for example, if there are widespread blackouts.) WARNING: Ice can be very slippery! Even the young and in-shape can injure their backs and fracture their bones after a slip on an unexpectedly icy surface! |
20 January 2025, 10:45:03 CST
Linked the MIPS review, string length example initial solution completed during Friday's class, and other string length code examples to the lectures page. |
3 December 2024, 14:22:42 CST
Started setting up Web pages for the Spring 2025 semester. |
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