CSE 3666 - Spring 2024

This repo is for CSE 3666 in Spring 2024. We will use multiple platforms in this course.

• HuskyCT. Most of the course materials, including syllabus, schedule, lecture slides, and homework assignments, will be posted in HuskyCT. Submission links and online quizzes will also be posted in HuskyCT.

  Here is the Blackboard help center for students

• Gradescope. We will use Gradescope to grade most of the lab assignments and some homework questions. The submission links will be created in HuskyCT.

  Here are the instructions for submitting an assignment on Gradescope.

• This repo. Lab assignments will be posted here. For example, lab0 folder has all the files for Lab 0 and the description is in lab0.md. The submission portals/links are in HuskyCT.

  It is a good idea to bookmark this page.

• iClicker. For lecture participations.

  iCliker student login page

• Discord server. For online discussions.

• CSE 3666 supplementary materials in a public repo

Your submitted work in lab, homework, quiz, exam, etc. should be clean and tidy. Always write good, concise comments in code.

For all autograded assignments, including quizzes, you can see the results shortly after submission. You have chance to revise your submission for better grades. We do not manually adjust the grades for autograded assignments.

When grading coding questions manually, we check the correctness but also the quality. For example, RISC-V idioms should be recognized and written properly. Some idioms are listed on this page. In addition, good code should be easy to read.

Textbook

The textbook is

David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy. Computer Organization and Design
RISC-V Edition: The Hardware Software Interface (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in
Computer Architecture and Design) 2nd Edition, Morgan Kaufmann. Dec 2020.
ISBN-13: 978-0128203316.

Note that it is the second edition (NOT the first edition) of the RISC-V version. The UConn bookstore should have the correct edition. Here is the textbook on Amazon.com.

Link to the textbook on Amazon.com

The following is the page on the publisher's website that provides additional contents like online chapters. You can also download the reference card (in the textbook) from there. Search "RISC-V Reference Data" on the page.

Additional resources from the textbook

File storage

Important: Save your files to cloud storage like OneDrive. Local storage on lab computers or UConn AnyWare Desktop may be purged.

As of January 2023, UITS has enabled OneDrive on UConn Anyware Desktop. The File Explorer has a link (OneDrive - University of Connecticut) to the user's OneDrive folder. In PowerShell, the folder "OneDrive - University of Connecticut" is in the user's home directory. The files can also be accessed with the Web interace through email.uconn.edu.