CMPE232: Arithmetic Processor/ Winter 2003

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Requesting academic accommodations:

If you would like to request academic accommodations due to a disability, please contact the Disabled Resource Center , 146 Hahn Student Services, (831)459-2089(voice) (831)459-4806(TDD/TTY). They can authorize specific accommodations for you in CMPE202 on an Accommodation Request Form. Please present this form to me early in the quarter so that we can discuss the accommodations you might need for class. You will need to see me again at least three weeks before each exam to arrange for testing accommodations.  

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Course Information

• Time and Place: TueThur 10:00-11:45pm Kresge Clrm 319
• Prerequisite: CMPE 202 Computer Architecture
• Staff:
• Instructor: Pak K. Chan
  Location: Baskin Engineering 325 Phone: (831)459-4156
  Office Hours: Tues. 2:30-3:30pm

• Grading: You must turn in ALL homeworks.

  • 20% 3 or 4 Homeworks, (late homeworks will not be accepted)
  • 25% mid-term examination (approximately 5.5th week, in class).
  • 30% At least three journal paper critiques AND possible practical implementation, reports AND class presentation. Papers shall cover arithmetic processor implementations, and/or frontier in arithmetic algorithms.
  • 25% final examination (in class Wednesday, March 19 12:00-3:00 P.M).

  Policy concerning homeworks:
  I'll hand out the homeworks in lecture and each homework assignment must be due 7 days later. Your homework will be graded (though not necessarily corrected). You are not allowed to submit your homeworks, reports, exams etc by electronic mail or fax. Please don't be late for classes.

  Academic Integrity:

  • Thou shall not cheat !
  • Thou shall do thy work individually
  • Thou shall do thy work honestly
  • Thou shall not copy thy neighbor's work

  List of papers that you must read: List of must-read papers . I will furnish a master copy on the second day of class. Send a summary of each paper to me on a weekly bases.

  Weekly summary of papers

  Topics

  1. Number Representation Systems
     1.1 Weighted Number System
     1.2 Chinese Reminder Representation (CRR)
     1.3 Continued Fraction
     1.4 Redundant Representation
  
  2. Elementary Arithmetic Operations and Implementations
     2.1 Two-operand Addition
     2.2 Multi-operand Addition
     2.2 Multiplication
     2.3 Division
  
  3. Higher-Level Operations and Implementations
     3.1 Trigonometric Function Evaluation
     3.2 Vector and Matrix Evaluation
  

Homework Assignments

• Homework 1 : due ?? beginning of class.

Paper Critque Suggestion

1. Subject: iterative division : papers by ....
2. Subject: array divider : papers by ....
3. Subject: array multiplier : papers by ....
4. Subject: addition : papers by ....

Handouts

1. Verilog manaul: manual
2. IEEE Trans. on Computers: link
3. IEEE review form: form