Previous Announcements
This page contains an archive of announcements which appeared on
the main course page. The items are arranged approximately
chronologically with the most recent items at the beginning.
- Assignments 1 to 4 and Labs 1 through 3 have been marked.
You can pick them up during office hours on Friday, Dec 8 between
1:30 and 4:30 PM. After that they will be placed on top of the
assignment box (outside MCLD 332) and you can pick them up
whenever you want.
- How Assignment 4 was marked.
- The due date for Lab 4 has been set at two weeks after your
last lab. If your last lab was on November 28, you must hand in
your lab by December 12.
- How Assignment 2 was marked.
- How the mid-term exam was
marked. The mean was 14.6, the standard deviation was 4.1,
and the median was 15.5.
- The distribution of the mid-term marks is:
You can also look at the distribution of the marks for Question 1 and Question 2.
- Assignment 2 Part 1 is now due November 8, Part 2 is now due
on November 14.
- The lab in MCLD 254 will be open for students who would like
additional time to prepare for their labs before their scheduled
lab session. These "open" lab sessions are on Mondays and
Thursdays from 6 to 9 PM. A TA will be in the lab to monitor use
of the equipment but he/she will not be able to help you prepare
for your lab.
- How Assignment 1 was marked.
- The solutions for Assignment 1 have been revised.
- Daniel Tarbuck has forwarded two-page summary of the 80x86
instruction set.
- The data sheet for Assignment 1 can be found at: http://onsemi.com/pub/Collateral/DataSheet/sn74ls160arev5.pdf
- The
exam schedule shows the final exam for EECE379 section 101 on
Dec 11, at 3:30 pm in MCLD 214.
- The date of the mid-term exam has been changed to Monday
October 23, 2000.
- How to get and use the 8088
assembler.
- How to document assembly-language
and VHDL code
- The department upgraded the software on the PC network and
seems to have broken the installation of MaxPlusII. In the
meantime, you can also use MaxPlusII
on the Sun workstations.
- Details on the services available on PCs through software
interrupts is available in Ralph Brown's Interrupt
List.
- You must follow these standards fordocumenting assembly-language and VHDL
code.
- You can also use MaxPlusII on the
Sun workstations.
- You should print out and learn to use two quick-reference
cards:
- VHDL syntax is summarized in vhdlref.pdf
- the IEEE
std_logic_1164 and the Synopsys std_logic_arith
packages are described in 1164pkg.pdf
Note that the Synopsys arithmetic package is widely supported and
you should use this one rather than the IEEE, Cadence or Mentor
packages. Each document is one two-sided page in PDF format.
- You can prepare lab ACF files by editing the file allpins.acf. This file includes definitions
for all of the pins connected to the SBC connectors and i/o
devices. To create an ACF file for myproject:
- save a copy of this file with the name myproject.acf
- change the chip name to myproject
- delete signals that you are not using
- change the remaining signal names to match those in your entity
- The authoritative source of programming information for the
intel 80x86 processors is the
Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual. However,
this book is 566 pages long and over 2 MBytes. You can find a
summary of the 8088/8086 instruction set in Appendix C of
Intel 80C186EA/80C188EA Microprocessor manual. The summary
is 24 pages long if printed two pages per
sheet or 12 pages if printed four
pages per sheet. Each PDF file is about 250 kB.
- How to get and use the 8088
assembler.
- Welcome to EECE 379! Please check this page regularly for
announcements about the course.
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