Jim Plusquellic

Students from the other section will be joining my lecture on Wednesday. The lab for Friday will also be combined and will meet from 1:00 to 3:00 (2/8).

NOTE: The laboratory for section 0101 will meet this week at 2:00pm, not at 1:00pm as scheduled. I'm hosting a potential Comp. Eng. faculty candidate who is giving her talk in ECS 210 from 1-2pm. Students are welcome to attend. The laboratory lecture will be given following the talk from 2-3pm. Students are reminded that laboratory attendance is mandatory, (attendance will be taken).

My section (0101) (mod:2/4) Anyone not listed on one of these two list MUST see us after class today!

Chintan's section (0201) (mod:2/4)

Students are encouraged to bring a copy of the slides to class. It is very important that you take notes during the lectures.

Advanced material on Segmentation/Paging/Call Gates from text "Advanced 80386 Programming Techniques" by James L. Turley, Osborne McGraw-Hill

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Lab today (March 1) will be held from 2:00-4:00 instead of 1:00-3:00. We have a computer engineering faculty candidate on campus. You are welcome to come to the colloquium at 1:00pm in ECS 210I.

The mid-term is scheduled for this Wednesday, March 13th. you are responsible for all the material between (and including) 80x86 Architecture Basics and Memory II (up to slide 10), as well as the following assembly slides sets: Assembly Basics, Addressing Modes I & II, NASM, Stack Basics and Coprocessor Instructions. Explaining assembly code fragments is fair game for the exam.

Note, since this class is now 4 credits, we have made more progress than we have in previous years. Therefore, I've also included the final exams from previous years, as much of that material is relevant to our midterm.

Sample Midterm exam

Sample Midterm exam (2000) (PDF)

Sample Midterm exam (2001) (PDF)

Sample Midterm exam (2002) (PDF)

Sample Final exam (2000) (PDF)

Sample Final exam (2001) (PDF)

Sample Final exam (2002) (PDF)

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Lab today (March 15) will be held from 1:30-3:00 -- we are combining the labs for the two classes since Chintan will be giving a Cadence lecture.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Lab this friday (March 22) will be held from 1:30-3:00 -- we are combining the labs for the two classes since Chintan will continuing his Cadence lecture.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Lab this friday (April 19) will be held from 1:30-3:00 -- we are combining the labs for the two classes since I will be giving the lecture on Linux device drivers.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Lab this friday (April 26) will be held from 1:30-3:00 -- we are combining the labs for the two classes since I will be giving the lecture on Linux device drivers.

Test bench to be posted on Monday for Project 5

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Until further notice, the labs this week through the end of the term will be combined and will meet at 1:30-3:00.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: The lab meeting for today (Friday, May 10th) is cancelled.

VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: THE FINAL IS FROM 1:00pm to 3:00pm Wed, May 22nd (tomorrow)!

Lab lectures notes

Assembly Basics (mod:2/3)

Assembly Basics (PDF)(mod:2/3)

Addressing Modes I (mod:2/9)

Addressing Modes I (PDF)(mod:2/9)

Addressing Modes II (mod:2/9)

Addressing Modes II (PDF)(mod:2/9)

NASM (Small correction to Hello World program) (mod:2/9)

NASM (Small correction to Hello World program) (PDF)(mod:2/9)

Stack Basics (mod:2/21)

Stack Basics (PDF)(mod:2/21)

Data Movement Instructions (mod:2/21)

Data Movement Instructions (PDF)(mod:2/21)

Aritmetic and Flow-of-Control Instructions (mod:2/21)

Aritmetic and Flow-of-Control Instructions (PDF)(mod:2/21)

Coprocessor Instructions (mod:2/28)

Coprocessor Instructions (PDF)(mod:2/28)

Modules Under Linux (PDF)(mod:4/18)

Module Basics I (PDF)(mod:4/25)

Driver Basics I (PDF)(new slides)(mod:5/2)

Driver Basics II (PDF)(updates)(mod:5/4)

Projects:

Comments on the use of GCC and LD for assembling.

My macros for your use (courtesy of me)

Floating point printf example

The code to get the command line if you are using GCC.

ASSIGNMENT 1: Due Feb. 26th (2/20)

ASSIGNMENT 1: Due Feb. 26th (PDF) (2/20)

Instructions on the use of submit to submit your project (2/25)

ASSIGNMENT 2: Due Mar. 5th (PDF) (2/25)

Starter code for ASSIGNMENT 2 (asm) (3/1)

ASSIGNMENT 3: Due Mar. 21th (PDF) (3/8)

C code for ASSIGNMENT 3 (C code) (3/8)

Project 4: Due Apr. 9 (4/2)

Project 4 testbench (4/2)

Project 4 input file (4/2)

Project 5: Due 4/28 for extra credit, and May 3 otherwise.

Type in the scull device driver code given in Chapter 3 of the text. Type in the script that calls insmod creates the device nodes. Test them on the lab machines and submit both files by Tuesday, May 7th at midnight.