Sigh... don't you hate it when you think you are going to get an A, and then the last assignment is a back breaker...

[LivinLaVivaPollo]

http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~larrabee/ce100/Lab7.pdf

I'm so owned.

 

[minendo]

http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~larrabee/ce100/Lab7.pdf

 

[Kemosabe1447]

Never happened

 

[MeanMeosh]

i had a high A going into the final.... must have messed up pretty bad cause my final grade was a b =(

 

[dabuddha]

Simple.

 

[notfred]

You go to school in my hometown. Santa Cruz rocks.

 

[yoda291]

what year are you in?

 

Political Science majors like me don't have this problem.

 

[polypterus]

Nevermind.

 

[LivinLaVivaPollo]

About to finish my 2nd year. And yes, Santa Cruz does rock.

 

[Stojakapimp]

Make truth tables. Those make logic design stuff real simple

 

[LivinLaVivaPollo]

Hehe. I don't think I'll need truth tables, k-maps, or the Q/M method for this one. I need religion.

 

[NutBucket]

I like digital stuff but man this is pretty freakin' involved!

 

[LivinLaVivaPollo]

Digital Design is usually the class that solidifies your status as a CE major. If you like it, chances are that you'll like CE, if you don't, then well... you know. It's not all bad. The lecture is pretty interesting. The lab is an abundance of work. I put in 10 hours a week easily, not including time for typing up the lab report. This last lab is just killer. I think I'm going to end up collaborating with ten other people or something,

 

[NutBucket]

I think you'd have to be nuts not to collaborate with MANY other people

 

[Kev]

no, because grades don't matter.

 

[LivinLaVivaPollo]

This would have been my first A though, within courses in my major... :frown:

 

[dighn]

digital logic = teh fun

 

[mfs378]

Awww... poor you.

At the start of my third year I took a class where I had to build a complete CPU. Some specs...

It was fully piplined with the basic five stages. It was a 32-bit machine. It had level-1 instruction and data caches, both of which were two-way assosciative. It also had a combined 512KB level-2 cache that was also two-way assosciative. All caches used LRU replacement policies. It had a wallace-tree 5-cycle multiplier, and a 32 cycle divider. It had a 256 bit interface to memory. It had two parallel execution pipes. It had a 1024 entry branch predictor and a branch lookup table.

It would have had four pipelines and out-of-order execution with a 64-instruction window and the ability to speculate across four branches at once, if only there had been more time.

Pull yourself together, this isn't that hard.

 

[Yossarian]

I built an abacus once. It didn't work.

 

[wyvrn]

Man I had an A going into my Unix II final. I ended up missing my A by one point, as I got an 89 for the class. An 89 is a B Unfortunately, I sacrificed this final to study for my other 4 thinking I could still get the A, but the final was waited so heavily that it didn't happen. But I did pull A's in two other classes and A- in the others. So I ended up with a decent GPA.