| DATE | SUBJECT |
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|---|---|---|
| 5/17/03 |
Final
Project Race |
Don't forget that the final
project race is tonight at 5:00 in the lab. See you there! |
| 5/10/04 |
Final Project Update | The revised TFTP black boxes for the Final Project are now ready. |
| 5/6/04 |
Unfair Benchmarks | In light of the midterm, we are pushing the due date for the unfair benchmarks to Friday (5/7) at 11:59 pm. You should mail the benchmarks directly to John at cs152-tb@cory. If you have already mailed your benchmark to either Jack or Kurt, simply mail a copy to John before the deadline. |
| 5/6/04 |
CS150 Movie Night | CS150 is holding a movie night tomorrow (5/7) beginning at 7 pm in 125 Cory. We have been invited to join them, if you go you should bring a movie that you want to watch. Finally, if you aren't going to be going to the party, bear in mind that you probably won't be able to work in 125 Cory during the party. |
| 5/4/04 |
Graded Quizzes | Quiz #5 has been graded and is in Kubi's office, see him if you want your results. |
| 5/4/04 |
Midterm Reminder | We are holding the second midterm tomorrow evening from 5:30-8:30 pm in 306 Soda. You may bring 1 page of handwritten notes and you may use both sides of the page. |
| 5/2/04 |
Review Session | The TA's are holding a review session in 310 Soda tonight (5/2) from 7 - 9 pm. Bring questions or we'll just ramble aimlessly. Kurt's slides. |
| 4/27/04 |
Final
Project |
The Final Project has been updated to remove the scaled grading option. |
| 4/27/04 |
John's
Office Hours |
John's Office Hours for today are cancelled due to illness. If you have questions I can be reached via email. |
| 4/24/04 |
Final
Project |
The Final Project has been updated to fix some problems with memory-mapped I/O space. In addition final guidelines for the unfair benchmarks have been added. |
| 4/23/04 |
Final
Project |
The Final Project has
been posted on the handouts
page. |
| 4/20/04 |
ModelSim
Library Change |
The ModelSim libraries in m:\lib\cs152 have been updated. This should allow you to simulate Xilinx primitives (BUFGs, SRL16Es, etc.). If anyone has any problems with the new libraries contact John immediately. |
| 4/15/04 |
Lab
5 Bugfix |
There have been a few bugfixes to the ascii rom for lab 5. It should be possible to synthesize the module now. |
| 4/14/04 |
Homework
5 |
Homework 5 has now been added to
Homework
5/Lab 5. Note that we have moved the
homework due date to Monday 4/26. |
| 4/13/04 |
YAL5U
(Yet Another Lab 5 Update) |
There has been a minor update to lab 5 fixing a bug in I/O space (apparently I can't count). Now there is a NEW FPGA_TOP2.v in m:\lab5 for you to with the new boards. You'll need to use this because it supports the new, larger memory chips on the new board. If for some reason you still need to use an old board then you can use the files FPGA_TOP2_wrapper.v and FPGA_TOP.v. It has been tested against the memory and the network interface with satisfactory results. If you find any problems with these files then let John know immediately. Also there has been a bugfix to the blackboxes and you can find the new ones in m:\lab5 as well. Finally there is a readme.txt that may clarify a few issues. |
| 4/13/04 |
John's
Office Hours |
John's office hours are rescheduled to 3:00 - 5:00 today. |
| 4/12/04 |
Lab
5 Update |
There has been a minor update to lab 5 fixing some bugs in I/O space. Also, we placed an FPGA_Top and FPGA_Top2 in m:\lab5 for you to with the new boards. It has been tested against the memory with satisfactory results. If you find any problems with these files then let John know immediately. |
| 4/07/04 |
Lab
5 Update |
There has been a minor update to lab 5 about creating FIFOs using CoreGen and dual porting in general. |
| 4/06/04 |
Homework/Lab
5 |
A preliminary version of Homework 5/Lab 5
has been
posted on the handouts
page. There is no homework there yet, but it will be posted soon. |
| 3/30/04 |
John's
Office Hours |
John's office hours for today have been rescheduled to 3:00 - 5:30. Sorry for the short notice. |
| 3/18/04 |
Lab
4 Stuff |
The TFTP interface should be up and running. You should make sure that you have access to the server that will allow you to connect to the private network (c119-calinx). You can test this out by trying to ssh to the machine using your windows account name prefixed with "EECS\". You should do this immediately (ie. before Spring Break) so that if there is a problem it can be corrected. All the files for lab 4 are in M:\lab4 for your perusal. You also should have received TFTP blackboxes from your TAs. If you didn't then contact them and bother them. If they really can't be reached, then let me (John) know and I'll send you the files that you need. |
| 3/16/04 |
John's
Office Hours |
John's office hours for today have been rescheduled to 3:30 - 6:00. Sorry for the short notice. |
| 3/15/04 |
Homework/Lab
4 |
Homework 4/Lab 4 has been posted on the handouts page. |
| 3/11/04 |
Submit
Program Broken |
The submit program is broken. No, this does not mean you don't have to turn in your lab. Instead you should leave your submission on the U: drive of one member of your group in a folder named LAB3SUBMISSION. After creating it don't touch it, because you will mess up the timestamp. The TAs will copy the directory to a secure location for grading. Hopefully we will fix the submit program by Friday and you can submit the normal way, but there will be no guarantees. |
| 3/9/04 |
John's
Office Hours |
John's office hours for today have been rescheduled to 3:30 - 6:00. Sorry for the short notice. |
| 3/8/04 |
Review
Session |
There will be a review session
on Tuesday, 3/9/04, in 405 soda from 7:00 - 9:00. |
| 3/8/04 | YAL3U (Yet Another Lab 3 Update) | Homework/Lab 3 has been updated because ChipScope is incapable of displaying the output of the entire register file off of one trigger. |
| 3/8/04 | Bug in Simulation Model of Asynchronous RAM | There is a bug in the simulation model of the asynchronous ram scram.v. In particular if the initial clock value is 1 rather than 0 then the memory will be initialized to all X's. As a work around simply start your clock at 0 rather than 1 while a real fix is in the works. |
| 3/8/04 | Coregen | You are not allowed to use CoreGen to create components for Lab 3. So if you CoreGenned part of your register file, then you should change it to use normal logic. |
| 3/5/04 | Review Session | The TAs will be holding a review session on Tuesday evening, in 405 Soda at 7 pm. |
| 3/1/04 | Board Upgrades | Boards in 125 Cory have been upgraded
to Calinx2. This means that if you are doing work in 125 Cory then you
will need to use a different top level module. You can find it in
M:\components\FPGA_TOP2.v Eventually, 119 will be upgraded as well and then everything will use the new top level module. But until then you should use the old top level for 119 and the new one for 125. Sorry for the hassle. |
| 2/27/04 | Homework/Lab 3 Updated Again | Homework/Lab 3 has been updated again, this time with new cvs requirements as well as info about the new tools. Also a new supplementary document on how to use the new memory with lab 3 is in M:\lab3. |
| 2/26/04 | Sample Design Doc | Your TAs have also made a sample design document for you. All design docs you submit from now on whould have a structure similar to this one. |
| 2/26/04 | Online Assembler/RAM creator | Your TAs have built an assembler/ram generator for you. To get an async ram verilog module dump, type in your mips and go to advanced->create async ram. |
| 2/23/04 | Homework/Lab 3 Updated | Homework 3/Lab 3 has been updated to include the design document as well as the new due date. |
| 2/22/04 | Homework/Lab 3 | Homework 3/Lab 3 has been posted on the handouts page. |
| 2/22/04 | Prereq Quiz Answers | As if you care, answers to the prereq quiz have been posted. |
| 2/4/04 | Homework/Lab 2 | Homework 2/Lab 2 has been posted on the handouts page. |
| 2/1/04 | Prereq. Quiz Review Session | Here is the sample MIPS program that was supposed to be included in the review session, but wasn't because of an email SNAFU. Note that this program is rather contrived. If you find bugs then email them to cs152-tb AT cory DOT eecs DOT berkeley DOT edu |
| 1/22/04 | Homework/Lab 1 | Homework 1/Lab 1 has been posted on the handouts page. |
| 1/21/04 | Survey | Please file out the survey and return it on Monday or Wednesday next week. The survey is available on the handouts page HERE. |
| 1/21/04 | Mailing List | Please sign up for the CS152 mailing list by clicking HERE. |
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CS152 | Welcome to CS152 for Spring 2004! |