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 outstanding 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:

Laura Angle (laura.angle AT duke DOT edu)

• no office hours

Kevin Brown (kjb5 AT duke DOT edu)

• Monday 4:15-5:15 at Hudson 202A

Alex Edelsburg (alex DOT edelsburg AT duke DOT edu)

• Wednesday 4:30-5:30 at Teer basement

Alex Hunter (alex DOT hunter AT duke DOT edu)

• Thursday 1:00-2:00 at Hudson 202A

George Rossin (george DOT rossin AT duke DOT edu)

• Friday 1:30-2:30 at Hudson 202A

Preeyanka Shah  (preeyanka DOT shah AT duke DOT edu)

• Tuesday 4:30-5:30 at Hudson 202A

* 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: Weds 11:10-noon, Thurs 2:30-3:30

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

Students are responsible for:

• homework - 20% of grade
• project - 35% of grade
• midterm exam - 20% of grade
• final exam - 25% of grade

Homework #1 (Introduction / Chapter 1), due Weds, Jan 21 in class

Homework #2 (ISAs / Chapter 2), due Mon, Feb 2 in class (assembly code due at 10:00am)

Homework #3 (Arithmetic / Chapter 3), due Fri, Feb 20 in class

Homework #4 (Unpipelined CPU Design / Chapter 4), due Fri, Mar 6 in class

Homework #5 (Pipelined CPU Design / Chapter 4), due Weds, Mar 25 in class

Homework #6 (Caches and Memory / Chapter 5), due Mon, Apr 13 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 Friday, January 16

Part 2: High performance adder (100 points), due Friday, February 6

Part 3: ALU (75 points), due Monday, February 16

Part 4: Memory (25 points), due Monday, February 23

Part 5: Unpipelined CPU (200 points), due Friday, March 20

Part 6: Pipelined CPU (200 points), due Friday, April 3

Part 7: Whole Enchilada (200 points), due Wednesday, April 22

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