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ENCM 369 Winter 2010: Index Page for Old Final Exams

Author: Steve Norman
Last modified: Sun Apr 25 15:43:58 MDT 2010

General Advice

Please keep in mind that topic coverage has varied from year to year:

Topic coverage changed a little between 2004 and 2005 due to the switch to the 3rd edition of the textbook.
New and important for 2009 and 2010! A processor design called the `multi-cycle machine', which was not pipelined, and which had a finite state machine for a main control unit, was covered in the 2nd and 3rd editions of the textbook. Coverage of this design does not appear in the 4th edition, and so this design was not covered in the Winter 2009 version of ENCM 369, and won't be in Winter 2010. Do not spend time trying to understand the old exam problems related to the `multi-cycle machine'.
The `single-cycle machine' in Chapter 4 of the 4th edition is the same as the `single-cycle machine' in Chapter 5 of the 3rd edition.

Figure numbers in exams from 2001 to 2004 refer to the 2nd edition of the textbook, but the designs of the single-cycle and multicycle machines of Chapter 5 did not change from the 2nd edition to the 3rd. In all of the 2001-2004 papers, I have tried to add text indicating changes in figure numbers, but I might have missed a few places where figure numbers are mentioned.

2009

The exam (both documents in PDF format):

2009 question paper
Corrections to question paper ...
- (March 19.) Problem 4, extra information needed to solve the problem: The argument to bar goes in the single-precision $f12 register.
2009 reference material

Solutions, all PDF, to be completed by early April 2010. (If you find an error, please send email to norman@ucalgary.ca):

Problem 1 (Correction, 19 April: In part a, $t4 gets 0xffff_ffff, not 0xffff_fffe. The explanation of what mult did is correct, but somehow I read mflo $t4 instead of mfhi $t4.)
Problem 2
Problem 3
Problem 4
Problem 5
Problem 6
Problem 7 (Correction, 25 April: The answer for part d should be "ID/EX.RegisterRt gets 01001 (base two) for $9;" that was what comes from bits 20-16 of the OR instruction.)
Problem 8
Problem 9
Problem 10

2008

The exam (both documents in PDF format):

Solutions, all PDF.

Problem 1: original solution
Problem 1: corrected solution posted Wed Apr 22
Problem 2
Problem 3
Problem 4 was about ``multi-cycle'' processors, a topic covered in the 3rd edition of the textbook but not the 4th. Multi-cycle processors were not covered in ENCM 369 in Winter 2009, so students in 2009 should ignore Problem 4.
Problem 5
Problem 6
Problem 7
Problem 8
Problem 9

2007

This year's instructors don't have access to the 2007 final exam material.

2006

The exam (both documents in PDF format):

Solutions, all PDF. (If you find an error, please send email to norman@ucalgary.ca):

Problem 1
Problem 2
Problem 3
Problem 4 (Note that this problem got recycled as Lab 9 Exercise B in 2008.)
Problem 5
Problem 6
Problem 7
Problem 8
Problem 9

2005

The exam (both documents in PDF format):

Solutions:

Problem 1 (ASCII text)
Problem 2 (ASCII text) (correction to part (a) made about 1pm Tue Apr 18, correction to part (c) made about 10 minutes later)
Problem 3 (ASCII text)
Problem 4 (ASCII text)
Problem 5 (PDF)
Problem 6 (ASCII text)
Problem 7 (ASCII text)
Problem 8 (ASCII text)
Problem 9 (ASCII text)

2004

The exam (both documents in PDF format):

Solutions:

Problem 1 (ASCII text)
Problem 2 (ASCII text)
Problem 3 (ASCII text)
Problem 4 (ASCII text)
Problem 5 (PDF format)
Problem 6 (ASCII text)
Problem 7 (ASCII text)
Problem 8 (ASCII text)
Problem 9 (ASCII text)
Problem 10 (ASCII text)

2003

The exam (both documents in PDF format):

Solutions:

Problem 1 (ASCII text)
Problem 2 (ASCII text)
Problem 3 (HTML)
Problem 4 (HTML)
Problem 5 (ASCII text)
Problem 6 (ASCII text)
Problem 7 (ASCII text)
Problem 8 (ASCII text)
Problem 9 (ASCII text)
Problem 10 (ASCII text)

2002

The exam (both documents in PDF format):

Solutions:

2001

The exam (both documents in PDF format):

Solutions: