CLASS ANNOUNCEMENTS (Monday, December 1, 1997)

• What IS New:
• Fixed Homework 6!!!   (thanks for the in-class corrections; that explained a lot of problems I had earlier!).  See handout for updated version.
• Added Homework 6 below (for CS 320 students!)
• For those of you planning to do a project in lieu of the final exam, I NEED TO HEAR YOUR PROPOSAL (or read it!) ASAP!   (if you haven't already checked it with me).  Come by and see me anytime, or send me a brief descr. (a single paragraph is fine!).  Do this by the end of next week (Friday, Nov. 14), or I will assume you are NOT going for the project option!  See Project Guidlines handed out in class last month.
• Added Sample Quiz 1 (see below, in section "TESTS and QUIZES")
• Added Homework 5  (see below in section "HOMEWORKS AND PROGRAMS").
• Added Homework 4 (finally)

• What Was New:
• Events

CONTENTS:

• Administrativa
• Previous 320 Course Work
• Fall 1996
• Winter 1997
• Lecture Notes
• Homeworks & Programs
• Tests and Quizes
• Projects
• SPIM
• On-line UNIX Tutorial
• Better On-Line UNIX Tutorial
• MIPS in the Real World
• SGI products,
• MIPS products,
• MIPS compilers

ADMINISTRATIVA

• Syllabus
• Survey
• CS AccredidationBoard
• Assoc. For Computing Machinery
• Jobs and Internships

LECTURE NOTES
 

HOMEWORK 1,
• Appendix B (pages B-45 to B-46)
• Numbers B.3, B.4, B.12  (skip that 4 bit mux I mentioned in class!)
HOMEWORK 2, KILLER CAR CONTROLLER!  page 1, page 2
HOMEWORK 3, Academia Nuts (Buzzer Board) (Sequential Logic)  page 1
HOMEWORK 4,   PROGRAM 1:  "Hello World" in MIPS Assembly, page 1
HOMEWORK 5, Computer Performance Analysis,  page 1 ,     page 2
• Handed out Wed and Friday (Nov. 5 and 7th).  Due Nov. 14, Friday.
• NOTE:  On the page 1 handed out Wed Nov.5,  I goofed on the prgram fragment P.  Please change "j begin" to "b begin", and also change "j" to "b" (unconditional branch) in the lookup table showing instr. classes for that question.  This mistake is corrected in the final two-page version handed out Friday Nov. 7.
HOMEWORK 6 (CS 320),   PROGRAM 2:  "Procedure Calls" in MIPS Assembly, page 1

• QUIZ 1
• Topics:  (1) Conceptual stuff (basic components of compilation, assembly and execution), and also (2)  BINARY ARITHMETIC!
• Sample (from last year's TEST 1):  page 1,  page 2
• To be given next Wednesday in class (Nov. 12), say about 25 minutes total. Plenty of time. Open books, notes, etc.