ECE352F: Computer Organization

Paul Chow

Fall 1998

More questions are now available in the handouts section.

No calculators are permitted for the exam. You can bring a VHDL book for reference.

In the labs, we are using the XESS Corporation XS40-010XL as the hardware platform.

We would like to acknowledge Xilinx for providing the FPGA hardware and software. We are also using Synopsys software for VHDL simulation.

In many cases there are two links. The primary version is in HTML for (usually) quicker viewing. The one marked `ps' should be used if you want a printed copy.

Other Info

• Errata to Gizmo Manual, version 2.2 Some minor, but important things to note.
• Using the PC Monitor with the Gizmo Read this to be able to talk to the gizmo board.
• Postscript schematics for the boards: Version 1.0, 854724 bytes, Version 1.2, 852238 bytes
• Lots of other documentation about the boards is available at the XESS Corp. website.
• 1997 home page If you want to see stuff from last year.
• To generate a license file you will need the serial number given to you in class. Online installation instructions and tutorial guides are also available. I have a local copy of the docs as a zippified pdf file (as of October 14, 1998). It is 1.9MBs.

  Starting on page 4-8 of the Express Application Note Supplement, there is a description of how to simulate a netlist generated from Foundation Express.