UMBC CMSC 313, Computer Organization & Assembly Language, Fall 2001, Section 0101

Old News

• [Fri, 30 Nov 2001 1235]   Project 3 grades were emailed to the students.

• [Tue, 27 Nov 2001 1912]   Some instructions for Homework 4 has been posted.

• [Fri, 16 Nov 2001 1625]   The topics page brought up to date. The page for some of the lectures now include links to circuit diagrams in DigSim for circuits relevant to that lecture. The archive digsim.tar.gz was updated again.

• [Fri, 16 Nov 2001 1355]   The circuits for a half adder and a full adder in the standard DigSim distribution are erroneous. I've updated the directories with correct circuits. The archive digsim.tar.gz has also been updated.

• [Thu, 15 Nov 2001 1657]   Information on how to use DigSim posted.

• [Wed, 14 Nov 2001 1130]   Project 2 grades were sent out by email.

• [Mon, 12 Nov 2001 1150]   Homework 3 posted.

• [Wed, 07 Nov 2001 1005]   A midterm grade report was emailed to all the students who took Exam 1. No new scores were reported (Project 2 grading is not yet finished).

• [Tue, 30 Oct 2001 1652]   Project 1 grades were sent out by email.

• [Tue, 30 Oct 2001 1145]   Project 3 is available in PDF. Note that the project description handed out in class has a typo: I_READ and I_WRITE should be S_IREAD and S_IWRITE instead.

• [Tue, 23 Oct 2001 1200]   Late penalties for Project 2 have been revised as follows:

  Submitted by:	Penalty
  Fri 10/26	-10%
  Mon 10/29	-20%
  Tue 10/30	-30%

  Submissions 2 minutes after 11:59pm on Tuesday 10/30 will not be accepted.

  Also, do turn in your main program and a typescript file showing which the features you have implemented.

• [Sat, 20 Oct 2001 0012]   Lecture Topics page brought up to date.

• [Wed, 18 Oct 2001 2233]   Revised notes on C Function Call Conventions and the Stack for better compatibility with the Nescape browser.

• [Wed, 10 Oct 2001 1607]   Notes on C Function Call Conventions and the Stack have been posted.

• [Tue, 9 Oct 2001 1205]   Project 2 has been posted. It also available in PDF. Note: the paper handout did not say this explicitly, but do make a typescript file and submit that.

• [Thu, 4 Oct 2001 1645]   Separated the syllabus page from the Lecture Topics page.

• [Tue, 2 Oct 2001 2232]   Material on PDP-8 posted.

• [Sun, 30 Sep 2001 2302]   Project 0 grade reports were sent out by email.

• [Thu, 20 Sep 2001 1300]   Updated versions of "toupper.asm" are now available. This fixes the bug where writing the "Read Error" message to the screen did not specify the file descriptor for stdout.

• [Tue, 18 Sep 2001 1300]   In the syllabus page, the topic for each day is "clickable". The link will take you to a page that has a summary of the topics covered in lecture that day. The text of the programs and sample runs shown on the overhead projector will also be posted.

• [Tue, 18 Sep 2001 1230]   Tutorials on running NASM, using gdb and Linux system calls have been posted on the project web page. Project 0 is also available.

• [Mon, 10 Sep 2001 2008]   Homework 2 has been posted.

• [Sun, 09 Sep 2001 2115]   Email sent to CMSC313 class list. If you did not get this message, send email to Prof. Chang <chang@umbc.edu> with your real email address.

• [Wed, 29 Aug 2001 1515]   Advising Note: This course is a replacement for CMSC 211 Assembly Language Programming and CMSC 311 Computer Organization. Students who have taken either CMSC 211 or CMSC 311 previously should not take this class. Furthermore, computer science majors who take this class must also take CMSC 411 Computer Architecture to satisfy the requirements of a BS degree in computer science. CMSC 313 by itself will not be sufficient for graduation.

• [Wed, 29 Aug 2001 1500]   Course web site up.