COMP3222 Notices

Final exams

Posted by Oliver Diessel Monday 02 December 2024, 10:50:46 AM.

The following is a longish announcement re the COMP3222/9222 exams coming up this THURSDAY 5 NOV starting at 13:45 in the J17 Lvl 3 CSE LABS .

The seating allocation for the exam is available at https://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~exam/24T3/seating/register.cgi/allocations/ .

If your allocated seat is in the flute lab , please be aware that some students will already have begun their exam in that lab when you are allowed into the lab, so please be as respectful as you can be of their need for quiet. These students will also finish their practical exam after you, so please leave quietly when you finish at 17:45!

When you are invited into your exam room, please take your seat promptly at 13:45 to commence reading your Theory paper at 13:50.

Theory paper reading 13:50 – 14:00.
Theory paper writing 14:00 – 15:00.

Remain seated while the theory papers are collected. After staff have collected your theory papers the lab is to be vacated. You may leave your belongings in the room if you wish. The rooms will not be available while the practical exam papers are distributed.

You may have a break until the exam rooms are again opened. Please return to your allocated seats at 15:20 to commence reading your Practical paper at 15:25.

Practical paper reading 15:25 – 15:40.
Practical paper writing 15:40 – 17:40.

The COMP3222/9222 exams are open book. You are permitted to bring with you and use any printed materials and files stored on USB-based removable storage devices; use of the lab workstations is permitted during both exams to access the course website, personal files stored on CSE servers, and USB devices.

The fpga-basics virtual machine is configured with Windows 10 and will allow access to CSE servers including WebCMS, but will not provide Internet access during the exams. INTERNET ACCESS IS NOT PERMITTED. Please regularly save your files on a removable device or to the CSE servers to minimize loss of work should the virtual machine crash for any reason.

NOTE THAT USE OF YOUR OWN COMPUTING DEVICES, INCLUDING LAPTOPS & PHONES IS NOT PERMITTED.

You are required to bring your Basys-3 board with you to complete the practical exam. Your board is to be returned to the CSE School Office in K17-111D before the Christmas shutdown or in the early New Year. Failure to return your board may result in a block being placed on your enrolment and graduation.

Practce theory and practical papers have been provided on the course website at https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP3222/24T3/resources/102573 . These will be available until 13:00 on 5 Nov.

I wish you every success in preparing for the exams.

lab07 marked

Posted by Oliver Diessel Saturday 30 November 2024, 04:39:03 PM.

lab07 has been marked and feedback is available for collection.

Please check with your marker for any lab07 marking queries, and let me know of any discrepancies in your overall lab marks.

Good luck with your studies - Oliver

lab06 marked

Posted by Oliver Diessel Tuesday 19 November 2024, 02:19:48 PM.

The marks and feedback for lab06 are now available.

Forcing the Vivado simulator to run a revised testbench

Posted by Oliver Diessel Friday 15 November 2024, 09:57:55 AM, last modified Friday 15 November 2024, 10:07:43 AM.

There have been recent reports of students making changes to their testbench code, but Vivaldi's simulator not seemingly running the new code. It has been found that unticking the "Enable incremental compilation" option in the Tools → Settings → Simulation → Advanced menu can clear this problem by forcing the simulator to recompile each time the testbench is run after it is saved. Please try this option if you experience a similar problem.

Change venue for PASS session 1pm on 19 November

Posted by Oliver Diessel Wednesday 13 November 2024, 04:53:08 PM.

We have been moved to H13 Lawrence West 4034 for the last PASS session from 1-2pm next Tuesday.

quiz4 marks & all late lab05 submissions marked

Posted by Oliver Diessel Tuesday 12 November 2024, 02:31:20 PM.

The quiz4 results have been uploaded - you should now be able to also see your total quiz mark in the "Quizzes" field.

All late lab05 submissions have also been marked.

Please check that we have correctly recorded all your marks to date and let me know of any discrepancies. Thanks.

On-time lab05 submissions marked

Posted by Oliver Diessel Thursday 07 November 2024, 01:46:45 PM.

Marks and feedback for all but a few late submissions have been uploaded.

Quiz 4 tomorrow

Posted by Oliver Diessel Thursday 07 November 2024, 09:37:19 AM.

The last quiz is scheduled to run from 12:01 am tomorrow (Friday) until 12:01 am Saturday.

The quiz covers lecture material presented during Weeks 1 - 8.

Use of Ed forum

Posted by Oliver Diessel Wednesday 06 November 2024, 09:17:48 AM, last modified Wednesday 06 November 2024, 01:30:15 PM.

It's late to say this: if you have specific theory problems you would like help with, an alternative to posting on the forum is to attend one of the remaining PASS sessions held in Quad 1042 on Wednesdays from 1-2 pm in Weeks 9 & 10 or in Goldstein G07 on Tuesday from 1-2 pm in Week 11.

If you have specific debugging problems that may involve looking at longish excerpts of code, then you can attend ANY lab session: Wed 5-7 & 7-9 pm, Thu 12-2 & 6-8 pm and Friday 5-7 & 7-9 pm to seek one-on-one personal assistance.

We will endeavour to answer all other questions on the forum. If there is energy left, we will try our best to answer the above types of questions as well, although that is not the main focus of our assistance on the forum.

lab04 and quiz3 results uploaded

Posted by Oliver Diessel Saturday 26 October 2024, 09:04:14 AM.

On-time and most late lab04 submissions have been marked and feedback is available.

Quiz 3 results have also been uploaded.

Streamlined LLM bug help

Posted by Oliver Diessel Thursday 24 October 2024, 04:07:09 PM.

Hi COMP3222 students!

We have released an update for the LLM bug-help plugin on the lab machines. You now can simply press the "LLM help" button when an error occurs - you no longer need to copy and paste in the two TCL commands ahead of time.

These instructions are being updated on the llm4hw.com website, as well as updated instructions for those students who have installed it on your own machine!

Best,

Hammond Pearce and Siyu Qiu

lab03 results released

Posted by Oliver Diessel Friday 18 October 2024, 03:47:59 PM.

All but 3 late lab submissions have been marked and the feedback is available. I will contact the individuals when their marks are available.

Quiz 2 marks released

Posted by Oliver Diessel Tuesday 15 October 2024, 11:12:13 AM.

Believe it or not, we had another systems mishap with last week's quiz. 32 students received a question about carry lookahead adders, which I had removed from the question set as we hadn't covered these in class. However, as I have now discovered, Moodle uses references to the original question sets when rolling over quizzes from year to year, and while I deleted the references to these questions form this term's quiz, Moodle uses the question set being pointed to rather than the questions themselves when generating its random question selection for each student. So, it was a meaningless deletion, and I find myself once again apologising for a stuff up that shouldn't have happened. In the interests of fairness, I have rescored all students out of 4 and scaled the resulting score up to 5 so that your quiz 2 score carries the same weight as the other quizzes. These results are recorded in SMS and can be viewed along with your other grades in the course by clicking on the bar chart icon bottom right of the COMP3222 WebCMS screen.

On-time lab02 submissions marked

Posted by Oliver Diessel Friday 11 October 2024, 02:13:18 PM.

The on-time lab02 submissions and some late submissions have now been marked. There are about 20 late submissions still being worked on. These will be released as soon as they are available.

Lab 4 Part I step 2 explanation of F_max​ REVISED at 10:40 am, 11 October.

Posted by Oliver Diessel Friday 11 October 2024, 10:28:29 AM.

It seems I made an error in my explanation of the derivation of F_max on page 2 of the Lab 4 exercise sheet. Please reload the exercise and read over the explanation once more to dispel the previous erroneous statement.

Quiz available from 9:00 am for 24 hours

Posted by Oliver Diessel Friday 11 October 2024, 08:57:57 AM.

Second systems stuff up in a week! Hopefully no more this year!

I have adjusted the date on Quiz 2 so that you should be able to commence after 9am this morning. The quiz will be available for 24 hours.

My apologies to anyone inconvenienced - I'm very sorry. Oliver

On-time lab03 submissions accepted until midnight tonight

Posted by Oliver Diessel Tuesday 08 October 2024, 11:16:40 AM.

Submissions are once again working - apparently an overzealous git submission in another class filled the disk preventing further writes to the disk.

I have extended the on-time submission deadline until midnight tonight.

If you sent me your files by email, please resubmit them in the usual way for them to be marked. I cannot process project files that are emailed to me.

Please note that we collect on-time submissions the day after the deadline. If you resubmit sometime after we collect your submissions, any resubmissions will not be marked. To be safe, please don't resubmit after 9am on the day following a deadline.

lab03 submissions

Posted by Oliver Diessel Tuesday 08 October 2024, 09:21:43 AM.

Clearly there are problems with give at the moment. I will let you know when systems are back up and running properly and then allow time for people to submit. Hang in there!

lab01 feedback and results released

Posted by Oliver Diessel Friday 04 October 2024, 12:11:23 PM.

Your lab01 submission has been marked - feedback and your result can be obtained by collecting your submission using the tab from the Lab 1 exercise sheet.

If you have questions about your score, please contact the demonstrator who marked your lab by email in the first instance. The demonstrator's email address should appear at the end of the feedback you received.

My apologies for the delay - it has been tricky with a number of new elements to deal with. We hope to improve our future turnaround times.

PASS sessions

Posted by Oliver Diessel Tuesday 01 October 2024, 12:21:19 PM.

In response to requests for help, we are arranging for one or two PASS sessions in COMP3222/9222. These sessions will be led by Rajdeep Virdy, who completed COMP3222 last year and has since completed all follow-on courses.

The plan is to offer one session per week, excluding Week 6 but including Week 11, with two sessions made available in weeks with quizzes (Weeks 5, 7 & 9). Sessions will be held in Quad 1042 on Wednesdays from 1-2 pm in Weeks 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 & 10. Sessions will also be held in Goldstein G07 on Tuesdays from 1-2 pm in Weeks 5, 7, 9 and 11.

These sessions will focus on helping with theory questions you may have. Practical questions could and should be raised with the lab demonstrators in the Brass lab on Wednesdays 5-9 pm, Thursdays 12-2 pm and 6-8 pm and Fridays 5-9 pm.

All things going well the first PASS session will be held tomorrow from 1-2 pm in Quad 1042. I'll let you know by email if we haven't been able to manage the start this week. Please come prepared with questions you're having trouble with.

After hours lab access

Posted by Oliver Diessel Tuesday 24 September 2024, 12:40:57 PM.

Please be advised that you have access to all general labs as well as Lyre, which together with Brass are the two labs that have the virtual machine fpga-basics installed, from 8:00am - 10pm M-F and 8:00am - 7pm on weekends.

Practice Quiz available in Moodle

Posted by Oliver Diessel Monday 23 September 2024, 12:29:46 PM.

Moodle now has a Practice Quiz set up for you to take ONCE - you only get once chance at getting a feel for the real quiz. It may be worth giving it a shot before you finish your prep for the Quiz on Friday.

Vivado AI help plugin

Posted by Oliver Diessel Thursday 19 September 2024, 04:04:01 PM, last modified Thursday 19 September 2024, 04:04:23 PM.

Here are the instructions .

The national Student Experience Survey is open

Posted by Oliver Diessel Monday 16 September 2024, 11:53:27 AM.

The national Student Experience Survey is open from 12 September to 13 October 2024. You could win $1K for filling it in!

https://www.student.unsw.edu.au/ses

Video explainer: Complete the SES - What's all the fuss about...?

Reminder: Lab kits

Posted by Oliver Diessel Wednesday 11 September 2024, 12:04:23 PM.

As previously advised, please collect a lab kit from the School Office before your first lab session this week.

Welcome to COMP3222/9222

Posted by Oliver Diessel Monday 09 September 2024, 09:07:48 AM.

Welcome everyone to the 24T3 offering of COMP3222/9222.

Lectures and labs start on Wednesday this week.

Please pick up a lab kit from the CSE School Office on the first floor of K17 before your first lab! Complete the Lab kit loan form and then proceed to K17-111D from 12pm - 2pm Monday - Friday during Week 1.

I look forward to seeing you in Colombo Theatre C at 2pm on Wednesday.