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Announcements:

• Welcome!
• Course handout/syllabus (ps) (pdf)
• CSE 378 mailing list archive
• MIDTERM NOVEMBER 7TH
• Midterm Study Guide (ps) (pdf)
• Practice exam problems
• Practice exam problem solutions
• SMOK Tips (html)
• Optional Final (ps) (pdf)
• Final Study Guide (ps) (pdf)
• Final Review Session: Monday Dec 17 at 6:30PM in Mary Gates 251

Homeworks

• Homework 0 (ps) (pdf), Due December 7th
• Homework 1 (ps) (pdf), Due October 8th
• Homework 2 (ps) (pdf), Due October 15th Solution to Part 2
• Homework 3 (ps) (pdf), Due October 24th Solution Example #1 Solution Example #2
  HW3 test cases that TAs used:
  branch.cxx fib.cxx
  non378.cxx simple.cxx
• Homework 4 (ps) (pdf), Due November 5th
  HW4 test cases that TAs used:
  branch (english/asm) (smokmem)
  variety (asm) (smokmem)
• Homework 5 (ps) (pdf), Due November 19th
  HW5 test cases (html)
  HW5 test cases that TAs used:
  variety (asm) (smokmem)
  forwarding (asm) (smokmem)
  beq (asm) (smokmem)
  bne (asm) (smokmem)
  jr, jal, and more shifts (asm) (smokmem)
• Homework 6 (ps) (pdf), Due December 7th
  smok.ini
  dataset.txt
• Reading Questions for 12-5 (ps) (pdf)

Tools

• SPIM, (pdf)Windows documentation (pdf)General documemtation
  NOTE: This software is installed on the CSE W2K machines at: "O:\nt\iuns\spim\SPIM63a\bin". Please use the already installed version instead of loading it into your home directory, as to not create 65 different copies of SPIM on the CSE servers.
• SMOK, a schematic capture design tool. In addition you should probably bookmark the component reference guide. There is also an online tutorial available here. NOTE, for v2.2.2 please patch your copy after installation with this new smok.ini file

Lecture notes

• Lecture Notes 1 (ps) (pdf)
• Lecture Notes 2 (ps) (pdf)
• Lecture Notes 3 (ps) (pdf)
• Lecture Notes 4 (ps) (pdf)
• Lecture Notes 5 (ps) (pdf)
• Lecture Notes 6 (ps) (pdf)
• Lecture Notes 7 (ps) (pdf)
• Lecture Notes 8 (ps) (pdf)
• Lecture Notes 9 (ps) (pdf)
• Lecture Notes 10 (ps) (pdf)
• Lecture Notes: jump table example (ps) (pdf)
• Lecture Notes 11 (ps) (pdf)
• Lecture Notes 11-a (ps) (pdf)
• Lecture Notes 12 (ps) (pdf)
• Lecture Notes 13 (ps) (pdf)
• Virtual Memory (ps) (pdf)
• Floating Point (ps) (pdf)

Readings

• Week 1: Chapter 1.2, Chapter 4.1 - 4.4, Chapter 3.1 - 3.4, Appendix 1-5
• Week 2: Chapter 3.5 - 3.8, Appendix 6,8 & 9
• Week 3: Chapter 3.15, Chapter 2, Pages 99-101, Chapter 5.1 - 5.3
• Week 4: Chapter 5.4 & 5.5, and 5.7 - 5.10
• Week 5: -
• Week 6: Chapter 6
• Week 7: -
• Week 8: Chapter 7