COMP3222 Notices

Returning lab kits

Posted by Oliver Diessel Wednesday 29 November 2023, 07:39:18 PM.

If you did not return your lab kit at the end of today's Practical exam, please return it as soon as possible to the CSE School Office on level 3 of building K17.

Please ensure you include your name and zID on a slip of paper inside the box so that it can be marked off a having been returned.

Unfortunately, if your lab kit is not returned, a financial block will be placed on your record. Until the block is cleared, this will prevent you from enrolling in further courses and from obtaining academic transcripts.

Thanks and have a good break!

Final exams tomorrow

Posted by Oliver Diessel Tuesday 28 November 2023, 12:49:54 PM.

As announced previously, the final exams are commencing at 2 pm tomorrow in the oboe, brass, sitar and kora labs on level 3 of J17. Please arrive by 1:50 pm and come prepared with writing implements and your seat allocation (see https://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~exam/23T3/seating/register.cgi/allocations/ ).

The practical exam will require you to use the Quartus tools provided by the fpga-tools virtual machine available from your CSE account in the above labs. Instructions for using the tools in this way are provided on the webpage above the Quartus II Introduction PDF file at Introduction to Quartus II v13.0 . If you have never done so, practice logging onto your CSE account, starting the fpga-tools vm, unarchiving, archiving and synthesising VHDL projects as well saving files to your CSE home or USB device from the vm TODAY to avoid dismay!

Please bring a face mask to help protect you and to help prevent the spread of COVID as well as other respiratory ailments. Obviously, if you are unwell, please do not attend the exam - submit a request for special consideration instead.

Good luck with your exams!

Progressive marks finalised

Posted by Oliver Diessel Tuesday 28 November 2023, 12:29:53 PM.

Most lab11 submissions have been marked and uploaded, thereby completing the final Labs score for the course.

If we have not finalised your mark it is likely because we are still marking late submissions. Please get in touch with me by email if you have any query about your recorded marks, whether for labs or quizzes.

IMPORTANT thread from Ed

Posted by Oliver Diessel Monday 27 November 2023, 11:11:57 AM.

An anonymous questioner asked:

Just for confirm, during the exam, we can view course website, all sources in cse machine, all sources in usb driver we taken into the examination room, like lec sides, lab codes, notes....?

To which I would have just answered yes, as this is true BUT only for static material as Thomas pointed out:

Just a really important addendum - we're not permitted to run executables during the exam, as it constitutes academic misconduct, and you'll get in heaps of trouble for it.

We can't write or take any programs to automate parts for us.

So it's not really anything you can store on a usb. Notes, slides, code, etc, are fine though.

This includes both theory and practical parts. This isn't explicitly stated in the instructions itself, but is outlined in the actual practice exam, under the declaration, and is easy to overlook.

And I wish to emphasise:

You are ABSOLUTELY correct Thomas. Use of executable code is NOT PERMITTED. It is easy, even for lecturers to overlook this point. So, running a program to minimise a boolean statement IS NOT PERMITTED. Running a program to layout some boolean expression as a K-map IS NOT PERMITTED. Running a program to minimise a K-map IS NOT PERMITTED. This should be obvious, but perhaps it needs to be spelled out.

Exams

Posted by Oliver Diessel Tuesday 21 November 2023, 02:54:07 PM.

As some students appear to be confused, please note that the one-hour theory and two-hour practical papers will both be held from 2 pm - 6 pm on Wednesday 29 November with a 10-15 minute break in between the exam papers.

Sample exam papers that are indicative of the question style you can expect are provided under the Exams link on the course website. Please note that I have just uploaded updated instructions that will apply to the 2023 exams.

It is also worth mentioning that you are required to use the fpga-tools virtual machine for the practical exam. Please familiarise yourself with its use. In order to avoid losing work if the lab workstation or virtual machine crash, I recommend you regularly save your work to your CSE home directory or USB storage device.

lab09 results uploaded for on-time submissions

Posted by Oliver Diessel Tuesday 21 November 2023, 01:16:14 PM.

Feedback is now available for on-time lab09 submissions.

Quiz4 and total quiz scores available

Posted by Oliver Diessel Monday 13 November 2023, 04:41:53 PM.

These have been uploaded and calculated. Please let me know of any errors/ommissions.

On time lab07 submissions marked; Quiz 4 this Friday

Posted by Oliver Diessel Wednesday 08 November 2023, 12:06:32 PM.

Hi all - the marks for the on time lab07 submissions have now been uploaded for you to collect.

Please remember that the final quiz is available to you for 24 hours from 12:01am this Friday.

lab09 submission deadline extended by 1 week

Posted by Oliver Diessel Thursday 02 November 2023, 04:41:23 PM.

To help everyone out with scheduling, and to provide enough time to give lab09 proper consideration, I'm extending its submission deadline by a week. However, I recommend that you work on the lab as if the deadline had not been extended so that you give yourself enough time to complete the last lab, lab11, which is due on Monday of Week 11.

Quiz 3 marks have been released

Posted by Oliver Diessel Wednesday 01 November 2023, 02:28:16 PM.

Apologies for the delay... busy days.

lab04 marks released for on-time submissions

Posted by Oliver Diessel Thursday 26 October 2023, 03:49:58 PM.

There are a few late lab03 and lab04 submissions that are still being processed or are yet to be processed. I will let individuals know when these are available.

Quiz 3 tomorrow!

Posted by Oliver Diessel Thursday 26 October 2023, 09:46:52 AM.

Quiz 3, covering the theory discussed in Weeks 1 - 5, is scheduled to be available on Moodle for 24 hours from 12:01 am Friday 27 October.

On time lab03 submissions have been marked

Posted by Oliver Diessel Wednesday 18 October 2023, 06:19:53 PM.

Results and feedback are now available. Apologies for the delay.

Quiz 2 marks available

Posted by Oliver Diessel Monday 16 October 2023, 12:54:12 PM.

The Quiz 2 marks have been uploaded. There is a delay in finalising lab03 results - I will announce availability later this week.

lab02 feedback and marks available

Posted by Oliver Diessel Wednesday 11 October 2023, 02:03:07 PM.

The on-time lab02 submissions are ready for collection.

Quiz 2 this Friday

Posted by Oliver Diessel Tuesday 10 October 2023, 03:39:58 PM.

Quiz 2 will be available for you to complete over a 24 hour period from 00:01 on Friday morning until 00:01 on Saturday morning.

The quiz will cover the theory content for the first 4 weeks of lectures including the first 25 slides of Lecture 5 on Flip-flops, Registers and Counters.

Important notes re lab submissions

Posted by Oliver Diessel Wednesday 04 October 2023, 10:55:03 AM.

A few things have cropped up during the marking of lab01.

1. Several students submitted paper designs that were unrelated to their code. We will deduct marks for minor differences and attempt to explain the discrepancies in our feedback. However, if we judge that the code could not have been derived from your design we will mark this part as a 0, even if the code is (largely) correct. You are expected to create a design first and to code from your design. If you change the code, update your design to avoid losing marks.
2. Late submissions have their mark capped at 10% less per day late - submissions will only be marked if they are submitted within a week of their due dates.
3. We will not mark resubmissions made after submissions have been collected on the morning following a due date.
4. Please ensure you use the correct lab submission page, or use the correct lab designation if using "give" from the command line, so that we can find your submission.

lab01 results released

Posted by Oliver Diessel Tuesday 03 October 2023, 03:27:39 PM.

lab01 results for students who submitted on-time are available now. Results for late lab01 submissions will be released by Friday afternoon.

Quiz1 results available

Posted by Oliver Diessel Tuesday 03 October 2023, 01:24:45 PM.

The Quiz1 results have been recorded in SMS - click on the grades icon at the bottom of the WebCMS3 menu for COMP3222 to access your results record.

The lab01 results will be processed as soon as possible - I will make another announcement when they are available, hopefully today.

2 day lab02 extension deadline

Posted by Oliver Diessel Tuesday 03 October 2023, 01:21:45 PM.

Hi all,

I have extended the deadline for the lab02 submission by two days due to network restrictions that were imposed without warning on the J17 labs including the Brass lab. The new deadline is midnight tomorrow (Wednesday night). If you have already submitted, you may resubmit without penalty until tomorrow night, but please ensure that you do not accidentally destroy work you want marked.

Regards, Oliover

Lyre lab has vm fpga-tools installed

Posted by Oliver Diessel Wednesday 27 September 2023, 01:34:19 PM.

Hi. If you are looking for another lab that has the QEMU vm fpga-tools installed, you should be able to access the Lyre lab on the ground floor of K17 building. Availability can be checked here: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~give/Timetables/labs/T3/

Tuesdays until 4pm, Thursday and Friday mornings appear to provide the best access to Lyre.

Practice Quiz and Quiz 1 available on Moodle

Posted by Oliver Diessel Wednesday 27 September 2023, 11:42:12 AM.

Hi all - I have made the Practice Quiz and access to Quiz 1 available on Moodle. You will be able to access Quiz 1 for 24 hours from 00:01 am on Friday.

Week 3 Quiz

Posted by Oliver Diessel Friday 22 September 2023, 10:51:41 AM.

Hello everyone. I hope you have managed to catch up with the first couple of weeks of university this term and are settling into a routine that works for you.

We will have our first of 4 quizzes for COMP3222/9222 next Friday. The quiz will be online (held on Moodle) and available from 00:01 Friday until 00:01 Saturday. The standard time allowed for the quiz is 15 minutes to answer 5 multiple choice questions chosen at random from a question bank I have prepared. The scope of the quiz is the material covered in Weeks 1 & 2 of the course. More instructions are provided on the Moodle COMP3222 Quiz 1 link, which will become active next Wednesday.

I will make a practice quiz available on Wednesday as well. The Practice Quiz has the same format, instructions and rules as the actual quiz. In effect, it is like a dry run at Quiz 1. You will be allowed one attempt at the Practice Quiz at any time from next Wednesday on. To make the most of the Practice Quiz, prepare for Quiz 1, then attempt the Practice Quiz before you attempt Quiz 1.

I will provide you with scores for your Quiz 1 attempt early in Week 4.

Best of luck!