This is an archive for the University of Texas at Austin EE460N Computer Architecture course lab assignments and uploaded with the intention to help future students taking the course to get started with the labs.
As said in the disclaimer, I have already removed or redacted files that contain actual answers. Students of the class will NOT find answers in this archive and should not worry about using this as a help tool.
The EE460N class as developed by Prof. Yale Patt contain six programming assignments as shown on his course webpage. http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~patt/14f.460N/labs.html
The course is based on a simplified computer architecture named LC3b devised by Dr. Patt for educational purpose. The first lab is to write an assembler that assembles a set of LC3b assembly language into .hex format. Subsequent labs implements LC3b simulators with different levels of simulation and with different additional feaatures (Interrupt and exception for Lab 4, Virtual Memory for Lab 5). Lab 6 is special in that it has a different implementation that supports pipling.
The lab assignments should be programmed in ANSI C standard.
ansify.py is a help script that converts the non-ANSI // comment into ANSI compliant /* comment */.
csv2ucode.py is a help script that converts the control_store.csv in lab 3-6 into useable ucode file. The script omits the first line (header) and converts each line in a csv file to a string of 0 and 1. This removes human error from the making of ucode file. However the code is not as general as it can be, and only scans for 24 columns. If you are adding more column to the csv file. You must edit the code to reflect that change.
upload is a one-liner help script that uploads the file to the UT ECE remote server. You need to edit it with your own username and set up the corresponding folder in the server for it to work.
The makefile should be self-explanatory. The check_error_code script runs the built program assemble against a series of faulty assemby code files and check the error code that it spits out. This is effective in ruling out corner cases.
contains the makefiles.
Makefile in Lab 4 and 5 builds a debug copy of the simulator that outputs more internal information than required for better debugging.
tst is just a one-liner that runs the debug copy of the code, loads it with the ucode file and takes any argument. This can
control_store.odt is a file of Libre Office Calc*, an able and free substitute of MS Excel. It along with control_store.csv, ucode6 shows the csv2ucode.py script in action. I only filled in the first group of rows.
autotest is somewhat of a testing script that uses the Expect utility to automate testing for the built program.