ECE 30 - Introduction to Computer Engineering Spring 2012

• Practical Information
• Class Schedule and Suggested Reading
• Updates & Announcements
• Course Materials
• Study Problems
• Labs
• Quizzes & Final Exam
• Programming Project

Course load

Prerequisites

• ECE 15 (high-level programming language: C, C++ or Java)
• ECE 25 (logic design)

Lectures

Lab sections

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 7:00-9:50pm (EBU2, 333A), led by TA and/or professor.

Discussion sections

Monday 9:00-9:50am (CENTR 214), led by the professor.

Quizzes will be held during the Monday discussion sections.

Final Exam

Instructor

Head TA

Head Project TA

TAs / Tutors

Grading

• 05/15/12: The quiz 2 grades have been posted here. Nice job, ECE30!! The students with SID in green are required to attend the lab next week. The students with SID in black are very welcome to participate but are not required to.
• 05/15/12: Study and example problems have been added.
• 05/15/12: Example problem solutions have been added.
• 05/13/12: Lab solutions have been posted.
• 05/11/12: Chapter 4 of the course notes has been added.
• 05/07/12: The quiz grades have been updated and can be found here.
• 05/07/12: Example problems have been added.
• 05/07/12: Study problems have been added.
• 05/05/12: To help you out with the programming project, we are providing you with a function to find the median of 5 (or less) elements! The new project_submission.s file contains the new function. A pdf file describing the function is provided in the Programming Project section below.
• 05/01/12: Study and example problems have been added.
• 05/01/12: The enrollments for the discussion section in week 9, on 05/29/12, have been posted here. Please check which section you have been assigned to, so you know whether to show up for the 7am or 8am quiz.
• 05/01/12: If you attend the Monday lab, then find out here which lab section you have been reassigned to for week 9.
• 04/30/12: The project is online now.
• 04/29/12: The solutions of quiz 1 are online.
• 04/29/12: Lab solutions have been posted.
• 04/27/12: Example problems have been added.
• 04/27/12: Some example problem solutions have been added.
• 04/27/12: Chapter 3 of the course notes has been posted.
• 04/27/12: Study problems have been added.
• 04/24/12: The quiz grades have been posted here. The students with SID in green are required to attend the lab this week and in week 6. The students with SID in black can participate voluntarily (and are very welcome to attend).
• 04/23/12: The list of students who are required to attend tonight's lab section can be found here. Full grades and lists will be posted tomorrow, when all quizzes have been graded. Please note that being required to attend the lab doesn't necessarily mean ''very bad news''. It just means that we think you could benefit from attending the lab section. Even if you are not required to attend, you are still very welcome to attend.
• 04/22/12: Lab solutions have been posted.
• 04/18/12: The quiz on 05/29 will take place in CENTR 214.
• 04/17/12: Example problems have been added.
• 04/17/12: Study problems have been added.
• 04/14/12: Lab solutions have been posted.
• 04/11/12: Example problems have been added.
• 04/11/12: Study problems have been added.
• 04/11/12: Bryan's office hours have been updated.
• 04/07/12: Example problems have been added.
• 04/07/12: Study problems have been added.
• 04/07/12: Chapter 2 of the course notes has been posted.
• 04/03/12: The slides of the first class and Chapter 1 of the course notes have been posted.
• 04/03/12: The 05/28 lab will be cancelled. Students attending the Monday lab will attend one of the other labs (Tu/We/Th). Email Janani your first and second choice of which other lab to attend that week. First come first served.
• 04/03/12: The discussion section of week 9 (i.e., Quiz 3) has been rescheduled to 05/29/2012. Two sessions will be organized: 7-8am and 8-9am. Email Janini which session you prefer to attend. First come first served.
• 04/03/12: Welcome!

Topics

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

Textbook

Podcast

Lecture Notes / Slides

• Slides: Lecture 1
• Course notes: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4

SPIM Simulator

You can download a PC version or a Unix version from here. Ubuntu users can type "sudo apt-get install spim". In addition, UC Berkeley maintains a Web page for a MAC OSX version.

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

Note to Windows 7 users: If SPIM complains about a missing "exceptions.s", you can fix it by going to Simulator->Settings, and changing the path from "C:\Program Files\PCSpim\exceptions.s" to "C:\Program Files (x86)\PCSpim\exceptions.s".

Study problems with solutions will be posted weekly. It is strongly recommended that these problems be worked out and thoroughly understood (quiz problems will be based on material covered in class, lab problems and study problems).

Week 1 - Performance Measures: study problems.

Week 2 - Assembly: Basics: study problems.

Week 3 - Assembly: Procedures: study problems.

Week 4 - Assembly: Procedures: study problems.

Week 5 - Arithmetic for Computers: Logic, Negative Numbers, Adders: study problems.

Week 6 - Arithmetic for Computers: Negative Numbers, Real Numbers, Adders, Multiplication: study problems.

Week 7 - CPU Design: study problems.

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Lab week 2 (mandatory): assignment 1 (solutions), assignment 2 (solutions), sample.s.

Lab week 3 (mandatory): assignment (solutions).

Lab week 4: assignment (solutions).

Lab week 5 & 7 (mandatory): programming project (more information under Programming Project).

Lab week 6: assignment (solutions).

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Some example problems will be posted to give you an idea of possible quiz problems.

Week 1 - Performance Measures: example problems (solutions).

Week 2 - Assembly: Basics: example problems (solutions).

Week 3 - Assembly: Procedures: example problems (solutions).

Week 4 - Assembly: Procedures: example problems (solutions).

Week 5 - Arithmetic for Computers: Logic, Negative Numbers, Adders: example problems (solutions).

Week 6 - Arithmetic for Computers: Negative Numbers, Real Numbers, Adders, Multiplication: example problems (solutions).

Week 7 - CPU Design: example problems

Quizzes are based on material covered in class, lab problems and study problems. They will be held during Monday discussion sections as indicated on the schedule. Every Sunday before a quiz, there will be a special "quiz office hour", 2:00-3:30pm in EBU2, room 333A.

• 04/23/12 : Quiz 1 (solutions)

Final: June 14th, 7:00-10:00pm. No calculator, no cheat sheet.

There will be a review session the day before the final (Wednesday June 13th), 7:00-9:00pm, in EBU2, room 333A, with instructor and TAs present.

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The project: Selecting Order Statistics - assignment, project submission.s, examples, description of median5.

Due: Thursday, June 7, 2012

The programming project must be done in groups of two. You may select your own partner, from the same lab section as yours.

The programming project is in MIPS R2000 assembly language. You will need to download a simulator called SPIM 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 follow the instructions in the assignment carefully.

If the TA can't easily run your program, you will lose points.

The program is due by 5PM on Thursday, June 7, 2012. Any program received after that will lose points for being late.

Turn in the program by emailing it to Akinyinka at ecethirty@gmail.com with subject line ECE30 PROGRAM. In the email body include the email addresses and full names of both partners. Be sure to attach the program!

Copying code will not be tolerated. It will be penalized with an "F" grade for the class, for both group members of both the team that provided the code as well as the team that copied the code.

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