352/704 Computer Organization, Spring 20023

What's New

• Apr. 9th: Corrected all the information on the page
• Mar. 9th: 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 Mar. 31st

Exp 2 due Apr. 14th

Exp 3 due Apr. 21st

Exp 4 due Apr. 28th

Exp 5 due May 5th

Exp 6 due May 12th

Exams

The planned date for EXAM 1

• Monday Apr. 7th

The planned date for EXAM 2

• Monday Apr. 28th
  Help session will be Thur. Apr. 24th from 6-7 in 70-ICL6 NEW

The FINAL will be during finals week

• Tue. May 20th from 12:30pm - 2:30pm Room 70-1435 IMPORTANT

Links

• The Vax Instruction Notes gives a more complete look at the various vax instructions.
• 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.

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