Midterm 2

• The second midterm exam will be during class on Wednesday, October 29, from 2:00 to 2:50 pm.
• The exam focuses on floating point representation (lecture 8), performance and MIPS processor organizations (lectures 10 - 15).
• The format of the exam will be similar to mid-term 1, including 2 long answer problems and a few conceptual questions. You can see the review notes and a practice exam . Solutions to the practice exam can be found here .
• We have only a limited time (50 minutes) for the test. To keep things fair for everyone, do not start the exam before we say so, and do not continue working after we tell you to stop.
• No books, notes, or calculators are allowed. Instead we'll provide information that we think you will need, such as data path and control diagrams. You can also look at the past exams.

Midterm 1

• The first midterm exam will be during class on We, October 1st, from 2:00pm-2:50pm.
• The exam covers the material introduced in Lectures 1-7 and Sections 1-4 and focuses on bitwise logical and shifting operations in C and MIPS assembly language programming, specifically on your ability to translate from C to MIPS and from MIPS to C. More details will be provided with the exam review notes. These topics are largely covered in chapter 3 of the textbook.
• We have only a limited time (50 minutes) for the test. To keep things fair for everyone, do not start the exam before we say so, and do not continue working after we tell you to stop.
• No books, notes, or calculators are allowed. Instead we'll provide information that we think you will need, such as a summary of MIPS instructions and lists of caller-save and callee-save registers. Please see the past exams below to get an idea of what the exam format is.

Past Exams

Here are some past exams, along with solutions where available.

• Before Spring 2004 this class had 2 mid-terms and a full length final, so some of the material on the pre-2004 mid-term 1 is on your mid-term 2, and some of the material on the pre-2004 mid-term 2 & final is on your mid-term 3.
• While there will likely be similarities, we make no claims regarding how similar your exams will be to these, so use them at your own risk. The questions found on exams for this semester will likely be similar in style to those found in the web exercises and discussion section problems.
• For best results, please try to solve the exams in the allotted time before you look at any available solutions. Seeing the answers for even a second can make the problems much easier to solve and possibly give you a false sense of security.