ECS 154A

Information at a glance:

• Lecture location/time: 212 Wellman, TuTh 10:30-11:50.

• Discussion section location/time: 212 Wellman, F 12:10-1:00.

• Professor: Norm Matloff, 3053 Kemper Hall, 2-1953, matloff@cs.ucdavis.edu.

• Professor's office hours: M 3:30-4:30, Th 2-3.

• TA: May Wong, wongmay@cs. Office hours: Tu 9-10:15, F 9-10:45.

  Reader: TBA

• Newsgroup: ucd.class.ecs154a-001

• Texts: S. Dandamudi, Fundamentals of Computer Organization and Design, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 0-387-95211-X; printed lecture notes (see below); supplement to Dandamudi

Syllabus

Printed course materials (see also my ECS 50 page); also see the TA's page on coverage of the discussions sections

Old exams (PDF files) Homework assignments

Chipmunk digital design software; it is installed on the CSIF Linux PCs, in ~matloff/Pub/Chipmunk; see also MAX+PlusII

TI 74xx chip specs

DLX simulation package

Linux

Other pages of interest on my Web site:

• Unix/C tutorials.

• The mutt e-mail utility. Don't use pine! It was designed for people who are afraid of computers, not for computer experts.

• The elvis text editor. Much better than ordinary vi (and far, FAR better than pico). X11 mouse capability; subwindows (even on nongraphics terminals); infinite undo; paragraph formatting and so on.

• My guide to fast debugging!

• My Chinese-language software page.

Old exams. Warning: Please note that these old exams are not necessarily "representative," for many reasons, including:

• This is not a "calculus class," where one expects certain well-delineated problem types to appear on exams.

• Different textbooks might be used each time I teach a course.

• I might place different emphases, or assign different homework, or give different supplementary information during lecture.

• During an exam I may correct errors, add conditions, clarify phrasing, etc.