The password for homework #6 is hw6_2009

The deadline for Homework #5 is Nov. 24^th.

The deadline for Homework #5 is Nov. 13^th.

The deadline for Homework #4 is Nov. 6^th.

Two highest grades are 100 and 93 points, two lowest are 17 and 18 points. All students with the grades less than 50 points should consider themselves in trouble and need to do their best in order to have a chance to pass the class.

It will be a Closed-books, No-notes exam. You may bring  the original "Green card" with MIPS instructions from the textbook (4rt ed) only. Do NOT bring any paper. Bring an eraser, pens, and pencils. You may bring a small, non-programmable, no-memory calculator.  

The exam will cover Chapter 1 through Chapter 3 of the textbook with the emphasis on:

* CPU performance equations and Amdahl's law * MIPS programming in machine (not pseudo-!) instructions * Big endian and little endian addressing * Binary arithmetic (critical path issues in circuits, full/half 1-bit adder, ripple carry adder, carry look ahead adder, binary multiplication (combinational and sequential), Booth signed multiplication algorithm * The last version of the sequential divide algorithm * Floating point arithmetic (decimal to binary conversion w/o calculators, IEEE 754 FP single and double formats, FP add and multiply, rounding with guard, round, and sticky bits) *

Good luck with the exam!

The deadline for Homework #3 is Oct. 16^th.

The deadline for Homework #2 is Sept. 29^th.

The deadline for Homework #1 is Sept. 11^th.