Instruction

INSTRUCTOR TA

Cliffton Mcintire (mcintire@acm.org) Adam Hiatt (adamh@cats.ucsc.edu)

Meeting Times

Lecture: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 9:00 - 12:00
Natural Sciences Annex 103

Lab Times

In addition to going to lectures, you are expected to attend one lab section twice weekly.
Make sure you are enrolled in the lab session you attend! There is limited space in labs!

Labs meet in Social Sciences I 135

Monday/Wednesday 4:00-7:00:
    submit cmpe012c.s01 LabX.mw
Tuesday/Thursday 1:00-4:00:
    submit cmpe012c.s01 LabX.tr

Discussion Times

Tuesday 4:00-5:30
SSI Lab

Wednesday 2:30-4:00
SSI Lab

Readings

A Programmer's View of Computer Architecture, Goodman and Miller, Saunders College Publishing, 1993. Available at BayTree and at SlugBooks. On reserve at the science library.

HC11 Manual To be distributed midquarter. Free, courtesy of Motorola.

CMPE012c Lab Manual -- get your copy at the Baytree Bookstore or online!

Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, 2ed, Patterson and Hennessy, Morgan Kaufmann, 1997. The CMPE110 text. Optional, on reserve at the science library.

Our web site: http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/classes/cmpe012c

Check the newsgroup and web page regularly. You are responsible for all announcements on the web page, in the newsgroup, and in class.

The newsgroup ucsc.class.cmpe12c is available for our use. Use netscape, pine, or rn (or xrn) to read the newsgroup. Instructions.

Course Work

Performance in this course is evaluated either on a letter grade scale or as Pass/NoPass. You must request a change in grading options before the deadline.
Your grade will be based on one midterm (30%>, one final (40%), several quizzes (20%), and your lab performance (10%). Homework will be assigned, but is optional. You will find it VERY beneficial to do the homework, as the quizzes may be based very closely off the homework. Quizzes will be administered on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the start of class.
The midterm will be held on August 9, and the final will be on August 23.

The Lab

There are weekly 12L lab sections. You must be enrolled in CMPE 12L to remain in this class! The lab assignments may be due on either of your two lab days (to be announced each week). Due to organizational difficulties, changing lab sections is not permitted. Labs will be submitted electronically and graded by the TA.

There is a $10 lab fee for cmpe012L! The lab fees are posted at http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/bels/

Be sure to pick up a cmpe012c Lab Manual!!

We will be working with two assembly languages in this course: MIPS (with the SPIM simulator) and HC11 (via a different set of tools and a really neat lab kit.)

We will have semi-weekly lab assignments. No collaboration is allowed on programming assignments unless explicitly permitted in the assignment writeup. When permitted, collaboration must be acknowledged and may only be with students currently enrolled in CE12C. Failure to give credit when collaboration is allowed is a form of academic dishonesty and can be grounds for failure of the course.

Academic honesty is a requirement for the course. As mentioned, all assignments must be your own independent work. Similarly, cheating on quizzes or the final will result in failure in the course and further damage to your academic career as appropriate.

See the current syllabus for evaluation criteria.

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