352/704 Computer Organization, Fall 20021

What's New

• Oct. 24th:
  The help session for the second test will be Monday Oct. 28th from 7:00 - 8:00pm in the CS conference room 10-1124.
  Opened lab 5
• Oct. 16th: Added a link to a document with a better description of the Vax instructions you will need for the labs.
• Oct. 13th: Opened lab 3
• Oct. 8th: The due date for experiment 2 has been moved to Oct 15th.
• Oct. 3rd: The help session for the fist test will be from 7:00 - 8:00pm in the CS conference room 10-1124.
• Sept 23rd: Added a link to the comment file for experiment 1.
  Also added a link to documentation for the try command.
  Also added note about what room we will be in for the first two tests.
• Aug. 19th: Created page

Syllabus

Homework

NOTE there are no homeworks being assigned in this class. I will be listing in class a list of possible problems for you to do, and the answer manual has been placed on reserve in the library. In addition you can check out some problems and solutions on 4003-352 Homepage.

Experiments

• Link to the Experiment Handouts

  NOTES

  • Note: the vmac assembler does not know how to handle .mar files that contain the two character PC end of line (carriage return followed by a newline) as opposed to just the unix single character (a newline). This will show up as a ton of errors from vmac. You can see this problem by just doing a more on your document, and you will see a ^M at the end of every line.

    There is a program dos2unix which allows you to convert the PC end of line to the UNIX end of line. To use the program type the command:

    dos2unix -ascii old_filename new_filename
    For information, do a man on dos2unix.

    Make sure to back up your file before doing any conversion, so that you don't lose your work.

  • You can avoid this problem in the future by using ascii transfer mode when using ftp (this automatically converts the end of lines for you).
  • You will be using the try command to submit your work for this class. Documentation for the try command can be found here.

Exp 1 due Oct. 2nd

File with all comments for exp1

Exp 2 due Oct. 15th

Exp 3 due Oct. 21st

Exp 4 due Oct. 28th

Exp 5 due Nov. 4th

Exp 6 due Nov. 11th

Exams

The planned date for EXAM 1

• MW sec. 70 Monday Oct. 7th Room 08-3305 IMPORTANT

The planned date for EXAM 2

• MW sec. 70 Monday Oct. 28th Room 08-3305 IMPORTANT

The FINAL will be during finals week

• Mon. Nov. 18th from 8:00pm - 10:00pm Room 08-3305 IMPORTANT

Links

• The Vax Instruction Notes gives a more complete look at the various vax instructions. NEW
• Course Web page at: 4003-352
• Rob Duncan's Homepage
• Here is a quick explanation for setting up the CHMK macro to perform a system call.
• Examples
  • SUM2.MAR which is a program to sum up the elements in an array of numbers.
  • REC.MAR a simple recursive program that adds up the elements of a list.