ECE 30 - Introduction to Computer Engineering

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Grading

• 06/19/08: The grades of the final can be found here.
• 06/07/08: Solutions to recommended problems on memory hierarchy have been added.
• 06/07/08: The grades of quiz 4 can be found here.
• 06/03/08: Solutions of quiz 4 are online.
• 06/02/08: Some recommended problems on memory hierarchy have been added (you will be able to understand all of them by the end of the last class).
• 06/02/08: The solutions for the recommended problems on CPU design have been added.
• 06/01/08: The grades of quiz 3 can be found here.
• 05/31/08: The TA will hold office hours during finals week: on Monday June 9th, 10am-noon, and on Tuesday June 10th, 10am-noon.
• 05/25/08: Solutions of quiz 3 are online.
• 05/23/08: Update on the programming project: use the provided driver file and carefully follow the instructions in the driver file to write your program.
• 05/22/08: More recommended problems have been added.
• 05/19/08: Solutions of recommended problems are online.
• 05/19/08: The grades of quiz 2 can be found here.
• 05/13/08: Solutions of quiz 2 are online.
• 05/13/08: The project is online now.
• 05/11/08: More recommended problems have been put online (the ones on floating point representation are anticipating next class).
• 05/09/08: Solutions of recommended problems for week 5 are online.
• 05/09/08: Solutions of all recommended problems for week 3 and 4 are online.
• 04/29/08: More recommended problems have been added.
• 04/24/08: The grades of quiz 1 can be found here.
• 04/22/08: 2.15 has been added as recommended problem.
• 04/22/08: Solutions of recommended problems and quiz 1 are online.
• 04/16/08: A second set of recommended problems has been added.
• 04/09/08: Some recommended problems have been added.
• 04/01/08: Welcome!

Topics

• Performance measures
• MIPS R2000 instruction set & assembly language
• Logic design
• Arithmetic for computers
• CPU design
• Memory hierarchy

Textbook

Lecture Slides

• Class 1 (04/01/08)

SPIM Simulator

You can download a PC version or a Unix version from here. In addition, UC Berkeley maintains a Web page for a MAC OSX version.

You can find a nice tutorial for the SPIM simulator here.

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Recommended problems will be posted weekly. It is strongly recommended that these problems be worked out and thoroughly understood (especially since quiz problems will be very similar to the recommended problems).

Week 2 - Performance Measures (Chapter 4 in text): 4.1, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10, 4.12, 4.14, 4.15, 4.17, 4.18, 4.51 (solutions) - Some extra problems and solutions.

Week 3 & 4 - Instruction Set & Assembly Language (Chapter 2 & Appendix A in text): 2.15, 2.29, 2.34, 2.37, 2.38, 2.46 (ignore Java index out of bounds check) (solutions) - Some extra problems and solutions.

Week 5 - Logic Design Review (Appendix B in text): Problems and solutions.

Week 6 & 7 - Arithmetic for Computers (Appendix B and Chapter 3 in text): 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.10, 3.28abc, 3.30, 3.31, 3.37, 3.38 (solutions) - Some extra problems and solutions.

Week 8 - CPU Design (Chapter 5 in text): Problems and solutions.

Week 9 & 10 - Memory Hierarchy (Chapter 7 in text): 7.9, 7.10, 7.14, 7.16, 7.32, 7.39, 7.40 (solutions) - Some extra problems and solutions.

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• 04/22/08 : Quiz 1 (solutions)
• 05/05/08 : Quiz 2 (solutions)
• 05/25/08 : Quiz 3 (solutions)
• 06/03/08 : Quiz 4 (solutions)

• 06/12/08 : Final

The project: Cyclic Towers of Hanoi.

Due: Thursday, June 5, 2008

The programming project must be done in groups of two. You may select your own partner. Anyone without a partner who didn't contact the TA about this before 11:59:59pm on Tuesday 06/03/08 will lose points on the programming assignment.

It will be a mini programming project in R2000 assembly language. You will need to download a simulator called SPIM (version 6.5) on your own computer, which can be used to verify the correctness of your assembly language program. You can use either the PC (Windows) version, the MAC OSX version, or the Unix/Linux version.

You must turn in a commented source code electronically by the due date.

Please use the provided driver file and carefully follow the instructions in the driver file to write your program: Driver File. Make sure that you turn in a complete program including a .globl main and a main: procedure. See the fact program in Appendix A (A-27 - A-29). If the TA can't easily run your program, you will lose points.

The program is due at 11:59:59 PM on Thursday, June 5, 2007. Any program received after that will lose points for being late.

Turn in the program by emailing it to Omer at olang@ucsd.edu with subject line ECE 30 PROGRAM. In the email body include the email addresses and full names of both parters. Be sure to attach the program!

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