EE 306 E-Mail Archive

Fall 2008


Mon, 15 Dec 2008, 17:43   Ooops! I forgot to leave the exams with Leticia
Mon, 15 Dec 2008, 03:03   programming assignment 5, grades have gone out
Fri, 12 Dec 2008, 15:05   fairness last Sunday
Thu, 11 Dec 2008, 21:42   Programs 1 through 4 are now on Blackboard
Thu, 11 Dec 2008, 01:04   the final grading process...
Wed, 10 Dec 2008, 00:47   Snow is good but not THAT good :-)
Wed, 10 Dec 2008, 00:32   two questions
Tue, 9 Dec 2008, 01:55   a question on nested interrupt priorities...
Sun, 7 Dec 2008, 22:56   the final exam from 2006
Sun, 7 Dec 2008, 22:21   remedial sessions on Tuesday
Sun, 7 Dec 2008, 19:02   solutions to problem set 6
Sat, 6 Dec 2008, 00:44   concerns about your grade on programs 3 and 4
Wed, 3 Dec 2008, 19:56   interrupt vector table
Wed, 3 Dec 2008, 15:22   Expanded office hour - like we did for the first exam
Wed, 3 Dec 2008, 04:51   some sentences are more visible than others
Wed, 3 Dec 2008, 04:39   Is a space an ASCII character?
Tue, 2 Dec 2008, 20:10   final exam time
Mon, 1 Dec 2008, 01:47   more questions...
Sun, 30 Nov 2008, 18:54   review session for the final
Sun, 30 Nov 2008, 16:11   when will we get back programs 3 and 4?
Sat, 29 Nov 2008, 17:31   some questions about program 5
Fri, 28 Nov 2008, 22:05   The last lap!
Wed, 26 Nov 2008, 01:13   now that pgm 4 is done, another 360N question
Mon, 24 Nov 2008, 00:48   What check must you make on the input from each player, in pgm 4
Sat, 22 Nov 2008, 13:42   for those who are curious. Not important to 306
Thu, 20 Nov 2008, 23:48   extra remedial session Saturday, 1 to 3pm
Mon, 17 Nov 2008, 20:51   technical questions about the exam
Mon, 17 Nov 2008, 19:11   answer to the traffic light problem
Mon, 17 Nov 2008, 19:06   What's more urgent than power failure
Sun, 16 Nov 2008, 16:25   Program 4: How much flexibility will we tolerate from the players?
Fri, 7 Nov 2008, 22:03   TRAP routines and Subroutines and JSR, JSRR, JMP, and BRnzp
Thu, 6 Nov 2008, 23:36   how many programs in problem 7
Thu, 6 Nov 2008, 04:32   a student read my answer and asks if he is missing something
Thu, 6 Nov 2008, 01:33   some questions about problems 4 and 7 in the current problem set
Wed, 5 Nov 2008, 22:40   what will be on the exam
Mon, 3 Nov 2008, 23:36   in class the question about using R7 as the base, as in JSRR R7
Mon, 3 Nov 2008, 01:30   problem set 5 has now been posted
Fri, 31 Oct 2008, 17:19   Can user IDs be similar?
Thu, 30 Oct 2008, 22:48   what happens on the second test case of my program?
Wed, 29 Oct 2008, 20:23   Does the password get echoed to the screen?
Wed, 29 Oct 2008, 20:09   Program 3: a student is worrying about some special cases
Wed, 29 Oct 2008, 00:17   I will try one more time...
Tue, 28 Oct 2008, 21:58   Error in our sample data table
Tue, 28 Oct 2008, 00:20   Is discussing how .STRINGZ works cheating?
Tue, 28 Oct 2008, 02:15   What is the third program requiring you to do?
Mon, 27 Oct 2008, 23:51   Are ABC and ABC2 legitimate users Are 123 and 1234 both legit passwds.
Wed, 22 Oct 2008, 22:26   a couple of questions on problem set 4
Wed, 22 Oct 2008, 04:21   problem set 4
Tue, 21 Oct 2008, 00:03   Program 2: Total number of nodes in the linked list
Mon, 20 Oct 2008, 03:39   one more point about the grading of future programs
Mon, 20 Oct 2008, 03:19   Regrades for Program 1 - AFTER you finish Program 2
Sun, 19 Oct 2008, 20:32   Ooops! My comment on an earlier email has been misinterpreted.
Sun, 19 Oct 2008, 16:07   How to store a value in x4000 or x4001 or x4002 or x4003 or ...
Sat, 18 Oct 2008, 23:39   where did the nodes come from?
Sat, 18 Oct 2008, 23:35   what is a node?
Fri, 17 Oct 2008, 18:03   EXTRA office hours this weekend
Fri, 17 Oct 2008, 17:55   what happened to program 1
Fri, 17 Oct 2008, 17:47   what happens if we test your program on a linked list, then a smaller one
Fri, 17 Oct 2008, 17:33   another student finds it easier to ask than try it themselves
Fri, 17 Oct 2008, 17:22   does the branch instruction set N,Z,P based on addresses
Fri, 17 Oct 2008, 01:30   what if a person has two accounts
Thu, 16 Oct 2008, 00:53   where does the symbol table go in my program?
Thu, 16 Oct 2008, 00:29   follow-up on zero nodes vs one node
Wed, 15 Oct 2008, 23:30   finding the user with the most number of minutes
Wed, 15 Oct 2008, 21:09   how do we tell the difference between one node and zero nodes
Wed, 15 Oct 2008, 14:13   minor typo on programming assignment 2
Wed, 15 Oct 2008, 03:08   What goes in x4002 if x3100 contains x0000
Tue, 14 Oct 2008, 04:12   Programming assignment 2 has been posted to our class website
Mon, 13 Oct 2008, 19:33   solution sheet, question 4
Mon, 13 Oct 2008, 22:53   What does S' mean?
Mon, 13 Oct 2008, 18:02   grading error
Fri, 10 Oct 2008, 01:55   the 80 minutes I had planned to give you to complete the exam
Wed, 8 Oct 2008, 17:53   why do we start at x3000 (and some comments on the exam)
Wed, 8 Oct 2008, 00:09   address space
Tue, 7 Oct 2008, 22:43   the instruction cycle, which takes multiple clock cycles.
Mon, 6 Oct 2008, 01:12   if you are still having trouble with the submission website
Sun, 5 Oct 2008, 17:00   a message from a student on Sunday afternoon
Sun, 5 Oct 2008, 01:04   It works "except for a few instances"
Sat, 4 Oct 2008, 17:38   extra office hours, solution sheets to prob sets 2,3, and Monday night
Sat, 4 Oct 2008, 17:27   a transistor problem on an old exam
Sat, 4 Oct 2008, 16:59   when you submit your program
Sat, 4 Oct 2008, 02:38   another student refuses to read email and asks the same question
Sat, 4 Oct 2008, 02:28   again, a question about stopping the program before TRAP x25
Sat, 4 Oct 2008, 01:50   if I am adding unsigned numbers, can I use signed numbers for control
Sat, 4 Oct 2008, 01:27   more on where the bitmasks go in the program + some insight into x3000
Thu, 2 Oct 2008, 17:00   the Simulator is an idiot also!
Thu, 2 Oct 2008, 16:11   the submission system is up and running
Thu, 2 Oct 2008, 01:41   more on the branch instruction. If you understand it, delete and ...
Wed, 1 Oct 2008, 23:43   what happens when a programmer WRITES a program and what happens when the computer EXECUTES that program
Wed, 1 Oct 2008, 18:44   my program uses x3000 to x3025. What do I put in x3026 to x30FF?
Wed, 1 Oct 2008, 17:57   on the email I am inundating you with
Wed, 1 Oct 2008, 14:43   rotating vs shifting
Wed, 1 Oct 2008, 04:05   solutions to the problems in the book
Wed, 1 Oct 2008, 03:16   bit masks and shifting right
Tue, 30 Sep 2008, 17:04   on lack of programming background
Tue, 30 Sep 2008, 16:55   Special discussion session on how the LC-3 Simulator works
Tue, 30 Sep 2008, 16:42   bit masks
Tue, 30 Sep 2008, 02:10   bit vectors (recall, in chapter 2)
Mon, 29 Sep 2008, 00:46   questions are starting to come in on the first programming assignment
Sun, 28 Sep 2008, 20:47   this is important for the program 1, but not for problem set 3
Sun, 28 Sep 2008, 18:10   problem 8
Sun, 28 Sep 2008, 18:08   If you have done problem 2 successfully, feel free to delete
Sun, 28 Sep 2008, 07:18   the first programming assignment has been posted
Sun, 28 Sep 2008, 03:22   problem 8
Sat, 27 Sep 2008, 19:37   more trouble understanding problem 2
Sat, 27 Sep 2008, 19:13   if you undertand what is going on in problem 1, feel free to delete
Sat, 27 Sep 2008, 18:59   Has anyone found the arrowhead that got misplaced from Figure 1?
Sat, 27 Sep 2008, 00:19   Questions on problem 1 and problem 8
Fri, 26 Sep 2008, 18:56   Problem set 3, question 8
Wed, 24 Sep 2008, 22:08   problem set 3, question 4
Tue, 23 Sep 2008, 17:33   one subtlety that one of my TAs picked up on my memory explanation
Tue, 23 Sep 2008, 06:06   master slave flipflops
Tue, 23 Sep 2008, 02:12   figure 3.21 on page 69, the memory diagram
Tue, 23 Sep 2008, 00:37   a question about transistor circuits
Sun, 21 Sep 2008, 22:49   the night before the problem set is due...
Sat, 20 Sep 2008, 03:46   the traffic light problem
Wed, 17 Sep 2008, 01:20   one more point: associativity
Tue, 16 Sep 2008, 23:08   since this is the second person who has asked, I will email all of you
Mon, 15 Sep 2008, 20:32   how many select lines do I need for an n-input MUX?
Mon, 15 Sep 2008, 04:07   Problem set 2 has been posted to the class web site
Sun, 14 Sep 2008, 23:52   problem 6 on the first problem set
Sun, 14 Sep 2008, 02:56   the information sheets you turned in (or didn't) on Friday
Thu, 11 Sep 2008, 00:28   email to me tomorrow
Wed, 10 Sep 2008, 23:07   once again, Problem 6
Wed, 10 Sep 2008, 00:32   someone is reading ahead. Feel free to ignore this until after Friday
Tue, 9 Sep 2008, 22:13   changing your discussion section
Tue, 9 Sep 2008, 18:24   Do we have to be able to convert a "strange" decimal fraction?
Tue, 9 Sep 2008, 00:17   2's complement - just negatives or both positives and negatives?
Tue, 9 Sep 2008   more on data types
Mon, 8 Sep 2008   floating point data type
Mon, 8 Sep 2008   office hours and remedial office hours
Mon, 8 Sep 2008   effective computability and finiteness, and what do we do with errors