ECS 154B

Information at a glance:

• Lecture location/time: 166 Chem, TuTh 12:10-1:30.

• Discussion section location/time: 216 Wellman, F 11:00-11:50.

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

• Professor's office hours : TuTh, 10-12 except for 1/7, 1/28, 2/11, 2/25 and 3/4 (dates of campus Courses Committee meetings).

• TA: Lael Heinig, heinig@cs. Office hours Tu 5-7, F 12-1, Room 53 (TA room).

• Reader: To be announced.

• Texts: Computer Organization and Design (second edition), by Patterson and Hennessy; printed lecture notes. Both texts are available at the campus bookstore.

• Please see the official Expanded Course Descriptions for this and other courses.

Syllabus.

LaTeX course materials (must be processed by LaTeX).

Homework assignments.

Supplementary explanations to Patterson and Hennessy.

Chipmunk digital design software.

Linux---free Unix for PCs.

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.

• Message-passing parallel-processing software.
  • NXLib

  • MPI

  • PVM

  • P4

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.