CDA3101 Announcements


Check this file regularly for important class announcements

  • Week 1 Prof. Whalley will lecture on Wednesday and Friday of this week.
  • Single files with all of the slides from a given chapter are now available in ps and pdf. Follow the slide archive link from the class webpage.
  • For those of you that had difficulty with the pdf form of the homework due to font problems, an html version has been added.
  • 1/23/02 -- Reminder that Exam 1 is two weeks from today (2/6/02). It will cover topics through the discussion of floating point number representation.
  • Class on 2/4/02 will be a review for Exam 1. This would normally be done during a recitation but since the exam is on Wednesday we will use class time.
  • The material that would have been covered in class on 2/4/02 will be covered in the recitations on 2/8/02 in addition to the normal class that day.
  • Typo on "General form of MIPS Arithmetic or Logical Instruction" slide. The andiu instruction should be andi. There is no andiu in the MIPS instruction set. The andi instruction and the ori instruction both extend their 16-bit immediate operand with 0's to get a 32-bit operand for the bitwise logical operation. (See pages A55 and A57.)
  • Solutions for Homework assignment 1 have been posted. Follow the homework link.
  • A list of instructions covered in the text and notes for exam 1 has been posted from the class web page.
  • Problem 4 (A) has been modified from the hardcopy distributed in class and a new copy of the homework posted in response to a request for clarification of the problem.
  • Due to a request from several students it has been decided that the latest homework assignment (HW3) that was originally scheduled to be due this Friday (2/1) will now be due on Monday and full credit received. However, NO LATE SUBMISSIONS AFTER THAT DATE WILL BE ACCEPTED.
  • Reminder: Exam 2 is 3/22 (the Friday after spring break) It covers from logic design (Chapter 4 part 2) to Pipelining (Chapter 6 part 4 -- except for handling exceptions).
  • Review for Exam 2 is in class 3/20 Wednesday
  • Final (Exam 3) is NOT cumulative, i.e., it will only be on material covered since Exam 2
  • Extended office hours 9AM to 12PM on 4/11/02 and 9AM to 11AM and 12PM to 2:30PM on 4/12/02
  • Extended office hours and 10AM to 2:30PM on 4/19/02
  • Extended office hours and 10AM to 2:30PM on Friday 4/19/02
  • Extended office hours 10AM to 11AM and 12:30PM to 2PM on Tuesday 4/23/02
  • Extended office hours 9AM to 12:00PM on Wednesday 4/24/02
  • Extended office hours 9AM to 12:00PM on Thursday 4/25/02
  • The solutions to the study questions for chapter 7 have been updated. The index bits were inadvertently included in the count of bits per line in problem 1.