Class meets Monday/Wednesday/Friday from 10:20am - 11:10am.

Location: 207 Hudson Hall

This is a large class, which means that students should contact other sources of information before, if necessary, contacting the professor.

* The first option for finding help is this website.

* The second option for finding help is the group of teaching assistants for this course.  Either email them (via the course's Google group) or go to their office hours. Questions on the Google group may get answered by a TA, a fellow classmate, or the professor.

Undergraduate Teaching Assistants:

    Michael Bauer (meb26 AT ee DOT duke DOT edu) 
         office hours: Tuesday 10:30-11:30am at Teer Basement

    Pat Eibl (pje2 AT ee DOT duke DOT edu): 
         office hours: Wednesday 11:30am-12:30pm at Teer Basement

    Philip Ethier (pde AT ee DOT duke DOT edu)
         office hours: Wednesday 2:45-4pm at Hudson 202A (the ECE 154 lab)

    Andrew Waterman (asw9 AT ee DOT duke DOT edu)
         office hours: Monday 4:15-5:30 at 202A Hudson

* If you need to contact the professor, please email him or come to his office hours:

Professor Daniel J. Sorin

Office: 209C Hudson Hall

Office Hours: Thursday 2-3pm, Friday 11:10am-noon (right after class)

Email: sorin AT ee DOT duke DOT edu (email subject must begin with ECE152)

Students are responsible for:

• homework - 30% of grade
• project - 25% of grade
• midterm exam - 20% of grade (Spring 2005 midterm)
• final exam - 25% of grade (Spring 2005 final)

Homework #1 (Introduction / Chapter 1), due Mon, Jan 28 in class

Homework #2 (ISAs / Chapter 2), due Mon, Feb 11 in class

Homework #3 (Arithmetic / Chapter 3), due Fri, Feb 22 in class

Homework #4 (CPU / Chapter 5), due Fri, Mar 7 in class

Homework #5 (Pipelining / Chapter 6), due Fri, Mar 21 in class

Homework #6 (Cache & Memory), due Mon, Apr 7 in class

Homework #7 (I/O / Chapter 8), due Fri, Apr 18 in class

The project for this class will be performed in groups of 2, and it has multiple parts. The end products will be:

• a hardware prototype of the Duke152/16
• software that runs on the hardware protototype

The Duke 152/16 architecture's specification

I have subdivided this project into smaller parts that will be due throughout the semester.

Part 1: Register File and Finite State Machine (75 points), due Weds, Jan 23

Part 2: 16-bit CLA/CS Adder (100 points), due Monday, Feb 18

Part 3: Integer ALU (75 points), due Monday, Feb 25

Part 4: Memory (25 points), due Friday, Mar 7

Part 5: Unpipelined 5-Cycle Processor (200 points), due Wednesday, Mar 26

Part 6: Pipelined 5-Stage Processor (200 points), due Wednesday, Apr 9

Part 7: The Whole Enchilada (200 points), due Weds, Apr 23

This is a VERY tentative schedule which may change depending on time constraints and which days the instructor will be out of town.