Instructor:

John Kubiatowicz, Assistant Professor
673 Soda Hall, 643-6817.  kubitron@cs.berkeley.edu
Office Hours: W4:00-5:30,  673 Soda Hall

Teaching Assistants:

Henry Lam
henryl@uclink.berkeley.edu
Office Hours: TuTh 2:00 - 3:00pm, 119 Cory Hall

Jiagen (Jason) Ding
jgding@eecs.berkeley.edu
Office Hours: M 1:30-2:30pm, Th 3-4pm, 119 Cory Hall

Ben Liao (Laboratory Development)
didohunterwinamp@yahoo.com
Office Hours: Monday 1-2:30, 119 Cory Hall

Administrative Assistant:

Veronique Richard
676 Soda Hall,  642-4334, nicou@cs.berkeley.edu

Locations / Times:

 

	Day	Time	Location	Instructor / TA
Lecture	M/W	2:30-4:00	405 Soda Hall	John Kubiatowicz
Section 101	Th	10:00-12:00	310 Hearst Mining	Henry Lam
Section 102	Th	4:00-6:00	3 Evans	Jason Ding
Lab			119 Cory Hall

Course Operation:

You can email the staff at: cs152@eecs.berkeley.edu. The newsgroup ucb.class.cs152 will be used extensively to communicate information on the course and labs. You must read it regularly.  In addition, there is a class mailing list (cs152-announce@kubi.cs.berkeley.edu), which will be used for class-related announcements.
Although these will be forwarded to the newsgroup, you can subscribe to this list directly by clicking HERE.

Homework exercises will reinforce the readings and lectures. Laboratory assignments will help you develop experience with the design tools, and let you experiment with the design of an actual processor.

Homework exercises and lab assignments will be typically available on Mondays, with homework exercises due at the beginning of class on Wednesday (1 or 2 weeks later).  No late homeworks will be accepted. Labs will be demonstrated in Section on Monday, and reports will be due by Midnight on Mondays via the submit program.

Homework exercises will be checked and graded for completeness only --- not for content.  We will have a short quiz (15 minutes) in class on homework due days to check your understanding of the homework exercises.  we will take a problem, with slight modifications, from the homework set.

For the laboratory assignments, we will be using the workstations in 119 Cory Hall.  However, you will also be able to login remotely. You should be able to access your home directory on any of the instructional computers, but the CAD tool will only run on the Windows 2000 workstations in 119 Cory Hall. Although the freedom to work outside the lab is valuable, so is the collective environment of the lab, so we encourage you to do some of each.

Final projects will be presented to the course staff at the end of the term, with a written project due the following week.

Consult the class schedule for due dates of homework exercises, labs, and projects.

Course Grading:

The CS Division guideline for an upper division CS class is that the overall class GPA should be between 2.7 and 3.1. Thus, the average grade in this class will be a B or B+. Please set your expectations accordingly.

There will be two midterm exams covering the material from the readings and class---and no final. They will be given over a 3-hour period in the evening to reduce time pressure: consult the class schedule to see the dates, times, and locations.
 

Two Midterm Exams:	35%	combined
Lab Projects:	35%
Homework Completion:	5%
Quizzes:	15%
Project Group Participation:	5%
Class and Discussion Section Participation:	5%