Clarifications of PLA and ROM:


  • width of ROM=total # of outputs
  • height of ROM=2^total# of inputs
  • word size of ROM=# of outputs

  • size of the PLA=(# inputs*# of different products)+(# outputs*# of different products)

    If there are common products in the OR plane, they are counted only once.

    • NOTES:

    1) Look at /afs/cs.pitt.edu/usr0/melhem/public/html/447/manipulate.cc You will find some help in dealing with binary representations for Project 4.

    2) Your implementation may be simpler if you pass instances of classes to the members that will do the actual work. That is if "MemRead()" will need to access the members of pc_unit and alu_unit, then just pass these as parameters to "MemRead()". See the code in /afs/cs.pitt.edu/usr0/melhem/public/html/447/classes.cc for an example.

    3) In the class for Registers_unit{} given in the Project4 handout, please add a member void RegRead(). It is missing. (I made the correction in the version posted on the web).

    4) I included a file prog.dat in the directory /afs/cs.pitt.edu/usr0/melhem/public/html/447/. Note that I removed the blanks from the input lines. This should simplify the conversion of each line into a 32 bit number. All what you need to do now to convert a line into an unsigned integer x is

    where fin is your file stream.

    5) Michael Cocharan (a student in the class) has provided a second assembly language program that may be used to test your simulator. For details see cprog.dat. Of course, you may want to write your own program.

    OLD NOTES:

    1) Look at /afs/cs.pitt.edu/usr0/melhem/public/html/447/examples/prog3. You will find a program that will help you a lot in your assignment 2. I also modified the assignment sheet to point to this program. Get a new version of project2 from the web, or from /afs/cs.pitt.edu/usr0/melhem/public/html/447/assign2

  • Submitting the final project:

    Important Notes:

  • If you are using conio.h and iostream.h, in UNIX you can just comment conio.h out. Otherwise, you need to add iostream.h

  • Other header files you will need: stdio.h, stdlib.h, math.h

  • Late submissions will not be accepted. If late, you will receive a zero (0).

  • Make sure you finish your projects early, so, if you have any problems compiling in UNIX, you have time to get help.

  • Please submit only one file per person.

    1. please copy your fourth project file into
    cp /afs/cs.pitt.edu/usr0/meepani/public/447/submission_4

    for example: if Mary_Doe is submitting and her source program name is proj4 then she will type this command:
    cp proj4 /afs/cs.pitt.edu/usr0/meepani/public/447/submission_4/mary_doe.cpp

    2. People who are using PC C++ compilers make sure you compile and run your program in the unix c++ compiler before submitting.

  • type: g++ -lg++ filename
    to compile on unix. Your .exe file that is created is a.out. In order to run a.out, just type ./a.out

    -lg++ helps in linking your program. -l=include library)

    Warning: Once you have copied the file to the submission directory, you cannot read, write or delete the file. So, be sure to submit the final version of the files to the directory. The time stamp of the submitted files will be compared for the time it is due.

    NO LATE SUBMISSIONS