ECE498SL Spring 2011

Lecture: TTh 11:00-12:20 in 1214 Siebel
Office Hours: T 1-3 upstairs in Caribou (in County Market at 4th+Springfield)

Handouts and Notes:

• Course Overview
• Note #1: Linkage with Other Languages
• Note: A Few Comments on Inlining
• 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)
• Note #2: A Case Study in Approximation (from Lab #2) (a couple of (uncommented) programs)
• Chapter 3 of my Ph.D. thesis (describes a lock-free multi-producer, single-consumer queue)
• Note #4: Synchronization Concepts
• Case Study: Rigel Task Model Livelock

Assignments:

• Homework #1 -- due in class on Tuesday 1 February
• Lab #1 -- due on Tuesday 22 February (a one week extension)
• Homework #2 (code package)-- due in class/by e-mail on Thursday 3 March
• Lab #2 -- due on Tuesday 15 March (code package)
• Lab #3 -- due on Tuesday 19 April (code package); group evaluation form due by final exam
• Lab #2B -- due on Wednesday 1 April (2009; NO LATE SUBMISSIONS: invent time travel to complete)
• Required Reading: Twelve Ways to Fool the Masses, by David Bailey
• Homework #4 (code package)-- due in class/by e-mail on Tuesday 3 May

Background Reading:

• 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

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 2010 midterm
• Spring 2010 final
• Spring 2009 midterm
• Spring 2009 final

Lectures:

• Lecture 1 (Tuesday 18 Jan 2011)
• Lecture 2 (Thursday 20 Jan 2011)
• Lecture 3 (Tuesday 25 Jan 2011)
• Lecture 4 (Thursday 27 Jan 2011)
• Lecture 5 (Tuesday 1 Feb 2011)
• Lecture 6 (Thursday 3 Feb 2011)
• Lecture 7 (Tuesday 8 Feb 2011)
• Lecture 8 (Thursday 10 Feb 2011)
• Lecture 9 (Tuesday 15 Feb 2011)
• Lecture 10 (Thursday 17 Feb 2011)
• Lecture 11 (Tuesday 22 Feb 2011)
• Lecture 12 (Thursday 24 Feb 2011)
• Lecture 13 (Tuesday 1 Mar 2011)
• Lecture 14 (Thursday 3 Mar 2011)
• Lecture 15 (Tuesday 8 Mar 2011)
• Midterm Exam in Class (Thursday 10 Mar 2011)
• Lecture 17 (Tuesday 15 Mar 2011)
• Lecture 18 (Thursday 17 Mar 2011)
• Lecture 18 Supplement: Specification for a Task with No Parallelism (Thursday 17 Mar 2011)
• Lecture 19 (Tuesday 29 Mar 2011)
• Lecture 20 (Thursday 31 Mar 2011)
• Lecture 21 (Tuesday 5 Apr 2011)
• Lecture 22 (Thursday 8 Apr 2011)
• Lecture 23 (Tuesday 12 Apr 2011)
• Guest Lecture by Matt Frank (Thursday 14 April 2011)
• Lecture 25 (Tuesday 19 Apr 2011)
• Lecture 26 (Thursday 21 Apr 2011)
• Lecture 27 (Tuesday 26 Apr 2011)
• Lecture 28 (Thursday 28 Apr 2011)
• Lecture 29 (Tuesday 3 May 2010)

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