Announcements

• TODAY is your LAST ECE291 class!
  • Congratuations on your hard work throughout this semester
  • Award Exceptional Performance

• FINAL EXAM
  • Thursday, 8am, in class
  • All material covered in class

• NEW DELUXE CDROM, VERSION 5.0 (May'99) AVAILABLE:
  • Contains
    • Revised Lecture Notes
    • All new and previous Homeworks
    • All new and previous Machine Problems
    • All Class Resources (including new MMX and 3DNow references)
    • All new Final projects (Programs and writeups)
      (With one-click startup)
    • Full archive of past semster Projects (Programs and writeups)
    • Complete 32-bit protected-mode programming environment
      • NASM
      • GCC
      • CV32
      • Allegro

  • Availability
    • Discs available:
      • Tuesday, May 4, 1999, before and after class
      • Thursday, May 13, 1999, before and after Final Exam
    • From: Prof. Lockwood

Applications of your ECE291 Knowledge

• Hardware Design
  • CPU Architectures
  • I/O Systems
  • Networks

• Operating Systems
  • Use interrupts swtich between processes
  • Preserve process state (registers, memory)
  • Preemptive Multitasking

• Algorithms
  • Minimize Running time vs. problem size: O(n) Analysis

• Compilers
  • Automate generation of assembly code

• Graphics
  • Technqiues for rendering 3D views
  • NCSA Cave

• Networking
  • Exchanging data between CPUs

• Digital Signal Processing
  • Specialize CPU optimized for numeric transforms

• Embedded Control
  • Medical/Automotive/Consumer electronics
  • Network appliances

Where can I go from here ..

• ECE Classes
  • ECE312: Computer Architecture
  • ECE338: Computer Networks
  • ECE328: Networking protocols and software
  • ECE382/ECE325: Circuit Implementations

• CS Classes
  • CS225: Data structures (trees, sorting)
  • CS373: Algorithms (DFS, BFS, ..)
  • CS323: Operating Systems
  • CS321: Compilers
  • CS318: Computer Graphics / BSP trees / Ray tracing
  • CS319: (one test/final/one project) Bump Mapping, Shading
  • ECE310: DSP (Fourrier)

• ECE Labs
  • ECE249: Logic Circuits (TTL Logic, breadboard)
  • ECE311: VHDL, Microcontrollers
  • ECE246: ADSL: (Prof. Uribe) - Like a Final Project all semester!
  • ECE320: DSP (take after ECE310)

• Misc
  • ARTGD332 Experimental Visualization Technologies
  • ECE302: Music Synthesis (Requires 310)

• Individual
  • Graduate School
  • Internships
    • Hardware: Intel/AMD/National/Digital/HP
    • Software: Microsoft/Netscape/SGI/Sun
    • Networking: Cisco/Nortel/Qualcomm/3Com
    • Graphics: Matrox/S3
    • Embedded: Motorola/TI
    • Peripherals: Adaptec
    • More..
  • TA Positions
  • Consulting

Course Evaluation

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