From morris at ece.msstate.edu Thu Feb 3 18:58:13 2011 From: morris at ece.msstate.edu (morris@ece.msstate.edu) Date: Thu Feb 3 18:58:16 2011 Subject: [ece4743] Re: Lab 2 Verilog Submission In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Students, I fixed mycourses to allow submission of a zip without the webpage question. If you already submitted please resubmit. Thanks, Tommy Morris On Feb 3, 2011, at 6:39 PM, Jacob Bowen wrote: > Dr. Morris, > > The students seem to be having trouble with the Lab 2 Verilog .zip file submission. It appears that when they attempt to submit their .zip files, the submission system asks them to select a single Verilog file from the archive. When they select that file, it appears that the file they select is the only file in the .zip archive that actually gets submitted. > > - Jacob From morris at ece.msstate.edu Fri Feb 4 17:17:10 2011 From: morris at ece.msstate.edu (Tommy Morris) Date: Fri Feb 4 17:17:24 2011 Subject: [ece4743] Test 1 for DSD Message-ID: <000501cbc4c1$a155d440$e4017cc0$@msstate.edu> Students, the course website says we will have a take home test handed out next Monday. I am delaying this by one week. We will have a lab next week. I want you to do this lab before the exam. Thanks, Tommy Morris, PhD Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Mississippi State University 233 Simrall Hall - (662)325-3199 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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There will not be a new lab assigned next week. Reminder: I will hand out a take home test on Monday in class. Tommy Morris From morris at ece.msstate.edu Mon Feb 14 10:01:11 2011 From: morris at ece.msstate.edu (Tommy Morris) Date: Mon Feb 14 10:01:16 2011 Subject: [ece4743] Exam 1 - Take home exam In-Reply-To: <30302621.26311297695681250.JavaMail.root@zimbra.ece.msstate.edu> Message-ID: <14778168.26621297699271847.JavaMail.root@zimbra.ece.msstate.edu> Students, please find exam 1 attached. There are 2 versions of the exam. A version for students enrolled in ECE 4743 and a version for students enrolled in ECE 6743. Please be sure to download the correct version. Thanks, Tommy Morris, PhD Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Mississippi State University 233 Simrall Hall - (662)325-3199 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Tommy Morris, PhD Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Mississippi State University 233 Simrall Hall - (662)325-3199 From: Melissa Webb [mailto:mnw67@msstate.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 12:54 PM To: Tommy Morris Subject: Re: ECE 4743 Thanks! Also, I'm working on the test and I'm not sure if you can answer this but for number 3 I have the 4 bit ripple carry adder written down differently than in the slides. I'm pretty sure that you told us they were wrong in the slides and you wrote the correct way on the board for us but I would like to know if you could confirm this for me. The only difference is the order of cin and cout. Is this correct? On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Tommy Morris wrote: Next week. I updated the class website and mycourses. Thanks. Tommy Morris, PhD Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Mississippi State University 233 Simrall Hall - (662)325-3199 From: Melissa Webb [mailto:mnw67@msstate.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 11:11 AM To: Tommy Morris Subject: ECE 4743 Dr. Morris, I just want to make sure when exactly our Lab 4 will be due. Online it says it's due tomorrow but in class I thought you gave us an extra week. Do you mind letting me know so I can get my checkoff today if needed. Thanks, Melissa Webb mnw67 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.ece.msstate.edu/pipermail/ece4743/attachments/20110217/46df50cc/attachment.html From morris at ece.msstate.edu Thu Feb 17 20:08:18 2011 From: morris at ece.msstate.edu (morris@ece.msstate.edu) Date: Thu Feb 17 20:08:29 2011 Subject: [ece4743] Re: ECE 4743 In-Reply-To: References: <00a801cbcec6$472d7900$d5886b00$@msstate.edu> <00e201cbced4$d1579e40$7406dac0$@msstate.edu> Message-ID: <89FD9D68-6E5A-49E9-8EC7-718C7EA5F194@ece.msstate.edu> Students, don't forget that you are allowed to use google and other sources to find information related to the test. Melissa, try google. The term is in the notes and has been discussed in class, but, I did notice it is a bit buried in the notes. Tommy Morris On Feb 17, 2011, at 2:15 PM, Melissa Webb wrote: > I have another question. On number 4 the directions ask us to use a single conditional assignment statement and I'm not really sure what that means. > By the word conditional it leads me to believe you want an if, else set up. Is it possible for you to explain this to me. > Thanks, > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Melissa Webb wrote: > Yes that is what I have in my notes! > Thanks again, > Melissa Webb > > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Tommy Morris wrote: > I just updated the slide on the website. ?Combinatorial Verilog Examples? slide 14. Please confirm your notes match the new version of the slide. Thanks. > > > > Tommy Morris, PhD > > Assistant Professor > > Electrical and Computer Engineering > > Mississippi State University > > 233 Simrall Hall - (662)325-3199 > > > > From: Melissa Webb [mailto:mnw67@msstate.edu] > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 12:54 PM > To: Tommy Morris > Subject: Re: ECE 4743 > > > > Thanks! Also, I'm working on the test and I'm not sure if you can answer this but for number 3 I have the 4 bit ripple carry adder written down differently than in the slides. I'm pretty sure that you told us they were wrong in the slides and you wrote the correct way on the board for us but I would like to know if you could confirm this for me. The only difference is the order of cin and cout. Is this correct? > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Tommy Morris wrote: > > Next week. I updated the class website and mycourses. Thanks. > > > > Tommy Morris, PhD > > Assistant Professor > > Electrical and Computer Engineering > > Mississippi State University > > 233 Simrall Hall - (662)325-3199 > > > > From: Melissa Webb [mailto:mnw67@msstate.edu] > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 11:11 AM > To: Tommy Morris > Subject: ECE 4743 > > > > Dr. Morris, > > I just want to make sure when exactly our Lab 4 will be due. Online it says it's due tomorrow but in class I thought you gave us an extra week. Do you mind letting me know so I can get my checkoff today if needed. > > Thanks, > > Melissa Webb > > mnw67 > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.ece.msstate.edu/pipermail/ece4743/attachments/20110217/29595cdf/attachment.html From morris at ece.msstate.edu Mon Feb 21 22:35:21 2011 From: morris at ece.msstate.edu (Tommy Morris) Date: Mon Feb 21 22:35:25 2011 Subject: [ece4743] Lab 5 Message-ID: <011b01cbd249$e7ee70c0$b7cb5240$@msstate.edu> Lab 5 is now posted on the class website. WARNING: Please use the .ucf file provided with the lab. Up until this lab the pins ps2c and ps2d have been commented out in the .ucf file. They need to uncommented and a 3rd line related to ps2c needs to be added. There is no warning if you miss this step. The keyboard will just not work. 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