CS 240 Course Materials
Spring 2004

General

• Syllabus: PDF, HTML.
• Grades. (See instructor for password.)
• Spring 2002 course materials.
• SPIM S20: A MIPS R2000 Simulator PDF.
• MIPS Architecture and Assembly Language. A nice summary of MIPS and SPIM programming. (Zach Paine suggested this site.)

• Unix tutorials: Unix Tutorial (PDF). Coping with Unix, An Interactive Survival Kit. Yet another Unix tutorial. Getting Started with Unix (PDF).
• vi guides: A Beginner's guide to vi and ex. Mastering the vi Editor.
• emacs guides: Remember that emacs has a self-contained tutorial, accessed by typing C-h t after starting emacs. emacs Tutorial. Getting Started with emacs: Emacs Beginner's HOWTO. Getting Started with the Emacs Screen Editor (PDF). GNU Emacs Manual. GNU Emacs FAQ. Emacs Reference Card (PDF) from the Free Software Foundation.

Assignments

• Homework I, due Feb. 9: 2.13, 2.29--2.32.
• Homework II, due Feb. 18: 3.2, 3.5 (use only MIPS machine language), 3.6, 3.9, and 3.12.
• Homework III, Due Feb. 25: PDF, HTML.
• Homework IV, Due Mar. 5: PDF, HTML.
• Homework V, Due Apr. 2: PDF, HTML.
• Homework VI, Due Apr. 9: PDF, HTML.
• Homework VII, Due Apr. 16: PDF, HTML.
• Homework VIII, extra credit, due May 5: PDF, HTML.

Class Outlines

• Week 0: Jan. 28 PDF, HTML. Jan. 30 PDF, HTML.
• Week 1: Feb. 2 PDF, HTML. Feb. 4 PDF, HTML. Feb. 6 PDF, HTML.
• Week 2: Feb. 9 PDF, HTML. Feb. 11 PDF, HTML. Feb. 13 PDF, HTML.
• Week 3: Feb. 16 PDF, HTML. Feb. 18: Continuation of Feb. 16. Feb. 20 PDF, HTML.
• Week 4: Feb. 23 PDF, HTML. Feb. 25 PDF, HTML. Feb. 27 PDF, HTML.
• Week 5: Mar. 1 PDF, HTML. Mar. 3 PDF, HTML. Mar. 5: Discussion of buffer overflow issues and architectural implications.
• Week 6: Mar. 8: Review for Exam I. Mar. 10: Exam I. Mar. 12: Discuss Exam I; discuss From Instruction Level to Thread Level Parallelism.
• Week 7: Mar. 22 : Class cancelled. Mar. 24 PDF, HTML. Mar. 26 PDF, HTML.
• Week 8: Mar. 29 PDF, HTML. Mar. 31 PDF, HTML. Apr. 2 PDF, HTML.
• Week 9: Apr. 5 PDF, HTML. Apr. 7 PDF, HTML. Apr. 9 PDF, HTML.
• Week 10: Apr. 12: Class cancelled. Apr. 14 PDF, HTML. Apr. 16 PDF, HTML.
• Week 11: Apr. 19: Finish superscalar discussion. Apr. 21 PDF, HTML. Apr. 23: Exam II.
• Week 12: Apr. 26 PDF, HTML. Apr. 28 PDF, HTML. Apr. 30: GIG.
• Week 13: May 3: Finish virtual memory. May 5 PDF, HTML.

Class Materials

• Week 2:
  • Feb. 11: Using Unix PDF, HTML.
  • Feb. 13: Using SPIM PDF, HTML.
  Week 3:
  • Feb. 11: Recursive factorial example fact.c, fact.spim.

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