ECE498SL Spring 2010

Handouts and Notes:

• Course Overview
• Note #1: Linkage with Other Languages
• Note: A Few Comments on Inlining
• 391 Student Notes (the entire package, including new material that may not have been included in the class' web page yet; review, including C, is Set #0)
• ECE391 Notes on Posix Threads
• A Comparison of Exception Mechanisms within Functions (associated code package)
• Some Thoughts on Testing and Debugging
• Anatomy of a Bug (John Kelm on RigelSim)
• Examples from Integrating Systems Research into Undergraduate Curriculum (WCAE-09)
• Chapter 3 of my Ph.D. thesis (describes a lock-free multi-producer, single-consumer queue)
• Note #2: A Case Study in Approximation (from Lab #2) (a couple of (uncommented) programs)

Assignments:

• Homework #1 -- due in class on Tuesday 2 February
• Lab #1 -- due on Tuesday 16 February (extended to 23 February)
• Lab #2 -- due on Thursday 18 March (code package)
• Required Reading: Twelve Ways to Fool the Masses, by David Bailey
• Lab #3 -- due on Thursday 6 May (code package)

Examples:

• Netlink module in C
• NetLink module in C++
• C++ template binding example
• C++ constructor sequencing example
• Marbles game (mgame is a Tcl/Tk script)

Exams from Previous Semesters:

• Spring 2009 midterm
• Spring 2009 final

Lectures:

• Lecture 1 (Tuesday 19 Jan 2010)
• Lecture 2 (Thursday 21 Jan 2010)
• Lecture 3 (Tuesday 26 Jan 2010)
• Lecture 4 (Thursday 28 Jan 2010)
• Lecture 5 (Tuesday 2 Feb 2010)
• Lecture 6 (Thursday 4 Feb 2010)
• Lecture 7 (Tuesday 9 Feb 2010)
• Lecture 8 (Thursday 11 Feb 2010)
• Lecture 9 (Tuesday 16 Feb 2010)
• Lecture 10 (Thursday 18 Feb 2010)
• Lecture 11 (Tuesday 23 Feb 2010)
• Lecture 12 (Thursday 25 Feb 2010)
• Lecture 13 (Tuesday 2 Mar 2010)
• Lecture 14 (Thursday 4 Mar 2010)
• Midterm Exam in Class (Tuesday 9 Mar 2010)
• Lecture 16 (Thursday 11 Mar 2010)
• Lecture 17 (Tuesday 16 Mar 2010)
• Lecture 18 (Thursday 18 Mar 2010)
• Lecture 18 Supplement: Specification for a Task with No Parallelism (Thursday 18 Mar 2010)
• Lecture 19 (Tuesday 30 Mar 2010)
• Lecture 20 (Thursday 1 Apr 2010)
• Lecture 21 (Tuesday 6 Apr 2010)
• Lecture 22 (Thursday 8 Apr 2010)
• Lecture 23 (Tuesday 13 Apr 2010)
• Lecture 24 (Thursday 15 Apr 2010)
• Lecture 25 (Tuesday 20 Apr 2010)
• Lecture 26 (Thursday 22 Apr 2010)
• Lecture 27 (Tuesday 27 Apr 2010)
• Lecture 28 (Thursday 29 Apr 2010)

Archive: Spring 2009