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Re-Exam Inspection

Written on 13.10.23 by Shrey Sharma

The re-exam inspection will take place next Wednesday from 16:00 to 17:00 in room 401 (building E1 3).

Exam Results

Written on 02.10.23 by Jan Reineke

We have finished grading the re-exam. You can see your results in the CMS.

We will announce the date and time of the exam inspection at a later time.

The re-exam will take place on Friday, September 29th, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm in the Günter-Hotz-Hörsaal (GHH, E2 2). You can find your assigned seat on your personal status page. Please be in front of the lecture hall no later than 9:50 am.

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You are allowed to bring a (double-sided) handwritten DIN A4 sheet to the exam. You may not use your own paper for the exam solution. Please bring a document-proof pen, i.e., no pencil, and neither the colors red nor green.

Exam Inspection

Written on 28.07.23 by Shrey Sharma

The exam inspection will take place on Monday in HS 001 (E1 3).

We will have two time slots. If the last digit of your matriculation number is between 0 to 4, you can inspect your exam between 10:00 and 11:00. If it is between 5 to 9, you can inspect your exam between 11:00 and 12:00.

Exam Results and Exam Inspection

Written on 27.07.23 by Jan Reineke

We have finished grading the exam. You can see your results in the CMS.

The exam inspection will take place on Monday, July 31 from 10:00 to 12:00. More details on the location of the inspection will follow.

Exam Information

Written on 21.07.23 by Shrey Sharma

The exam will take place on Tuesday, July 25th, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm in the Günter-Hotz-Hörsaal (GHH, E2 2). You can find your assigned seat on your personal status page. Please be in front of the lecture hall no later than 9:50 am.

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Exam Registration Deadline

Written on 19.07.23 by Shrey Sharma

The deadline for registering for the final exam is today.

Please make sure that you are registered for the exam in the LSF portal if you intend to take part in it.

Project 2 Results and Extended Exam Registration Deadline

Written on 15.07.23 by Shrey Sharma

We have finished grading the second project. You can find your results on your personal status page. There, you can also see whether you are admitted to the exam.

The registration deadline for the final exam in the LSF system has been extended until July 19th. Please register for the exam only if you are admitted.

Results Quiz 7

Written on 11.07.23 by Shrey Sharma

We have finished grading the 7th quiz. You can find the result on your personal status page.

You will have a chance to inspect your quiz during your next tutorial.

Results Quiz 6

Written on 05.07.23 by Shrey Sharma

We have finished grading the sixth quiz. You can find the result on your personal status page.

You will have a chance to inspect your quiz during your next tutorial.

Course Evaluation

Written on 05.07.23 by Jan Reineke

Please help us improve the course by participating in the course evaluation.

Submit your evaluation using the following links by July 9:

Lectures: https://qualis.uni-saarland.de/eva/?l=142636&p=fnj9qg
Tutorials: https://qualis.uni-saarland.de/eva/?l=1426361&p=5zhyzz

Project 1 Results

Written on 28.06.23 by Shrey Sharma

We have finished grading the Project 1 submissions. You can find your results on your personal page.

In addition, you will find the outputs of the test run there as feedback for the submission. For some tasks, we have automated testing for typical error cases. If your code was correct, these (faulty) test cases consequently failed. These test cases only play a role in the evaluation if the actual test case failed.

No Lecture on Friday

Written on 28.06.23 by Shrey Sharma

There will be no lecture on Friday June 30, 2023.

See you next week!

Project 2

Written on 26.06.23 by Shrey Sharma

Project 2 starts today, June 26, 2023 and must be submitted by Wednesday, July 12, 2023.

The project description and skeleton files are available in the materials section of the CMS.

Please refer to the project description for further details.

Extra Quiz

Written on 23.06.23 by Shrey Sharma

On July 10th, we will offer an additional, optional 7th quiz. This quiz will cover the material of the entire semester.

To be admitted to the exam, you will need to achieve 50% of the points from the six best quizzes, i.e., we will drop the quiz with the lowest score.

Results Quiz 5

Written on 23.06.23 by Shrey Sharma

We have finished grading the fifth quiz. You can find the result on your personal status page.

You will have a chance to inspect your quiz during your next tutorial.

Results Quiz 4

Written on 09.06.23 by Shrey Sharma

We have finished grading the fourth quiz. You can find the result on your personal status page.

You will have a chance to inspect your quiz during your next tutorial.

No Lecture on Friday

Written on 07.06.23 by Shrey Sharma

There will be no lecture on Friday June 9, 2023.

See you next week!

Online Session

Written on 05.06.23 by Shrey Sharma

As a substitute for the canceled tutorial from last Monday, the tutors will offer an online session on Tuesday (06 June, 2023) where they will discuss a selection of Verilog problems. Please find the corresponding exercises in the materials section.

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Results Quiz 3

Written on 24.05.23 by Shrey Sharma

We have finished grading the third quiz. You can find the result on your personal status page.

You will have a chance to inspect your quiz during your next tutorial.

Verilog Exercises in Tutorials

Written on 21.05.23 by Shrey Sharma

The upcoming tutorials will have exercises on Verilog programming.

Please bring your laptop to these tutorials.

Results Quiz 2

Written on 11.05.23 (last change on 11.05.23) by Shrey Sharma

We have finished grading the second quiz. You can find the result on your personal status page.

You will have a chance to inspect your quiz during your next tutorial.

Lectures in HS I, building E2 5

Written on 08.05.23 by Shrey Sharma

The Eurographics Conference is taking place in Günter-Hotz-Hörsaal (GHH, E2 2) this week.

Hence, this week's lectures will take place in HS I, building E2 5.

Results Quiz 1

Written on 28.04.23 by Shrey Sharma

We have finished grading the first quiz. You can find the result on your personal status page.

You will have a chance to inspect your quiz during your next tutorial.

Office Hours

Written on 25.04.23 by Shrey Sharma

Office hours will be held every Wednesday from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm in building E1 3, Room 401.
The first office hours will take place tomorrow.

Tutorials

Written on 17.04.23 by Shrey Sharma

We have assigned the tutorial slots. You can find the time and location of your tutorial on your “Personal Status” page.

The first tutorial and quiz takes place next Monday. Please be there on time.

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General Information

The lecture System Architecture of the summer semester 2023 takes place every Wednesday from 8:30 am to 10:00 am and every Friday from 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm at Günter-Hotz-Hörsaal (GHH, E2 2) and teaches basic knowledge in the field of computer architecture and operating systems.

For students of the 2020 (and beyond) curriculum, the lecture is located in the fourth semester. However, participation is also possible for second semester students.

Registration

Registration for this course will open after the first lecture on April 12.

Organisation

Lectures will be held in presence on campus at scheduled times. Recordings of the lecture will be made available for download or streaming.

Tutorials will also be held in presence on Mondays between 8:00 am to 2:00 pm.

Materials for the 2022 course can be found under Materials in the CMS.

In the Literature section, you will also find a list of topics expected to be covered this year and corresponding chapters in textbooks. If you already want to prepare for the course, it is a good idea to study these book chapters as well as the lecture slides of 2022.

Examination modalities

Examinations

The final exam covers the material of all the lectures.
Participation requires that a total of 50% of the points from the mini-tests and 50% of the points from the projects have been achieved.
The re-exam also covers the material of all the lectures.
Participation requires that a total of 50% of the points from the mini-tests and 50% of the points from the projects have been achieved.
Even those who have passed the final exam may participate in the re-exam and try to improve their grade.
You are allowed to bring a (double-sided) handwritten DIN A4 sheet to the exam.
Further details about the exam procedure will be announced during the semester.

Quizzes

Quizzes will take place every two weeks in the beginning of the tutorials. The completion time is 15 minutes.
A quiz not taken will be graded with 0 points.

Assignments

There are weekly assignment sheets to be worked on voluntarily. These are published each Wednesday in the CMS under Materials.
You can work on the assignment sheets in any group. You can hand in your solution before the end of the lecture on Wednesdays in the CMS. Normally, you have one week to work on your solution.
You will receive the corrected sheets back in your tutorial. Solutions to the exercises will be discussed there as well.

Projects

There are two projects during the semester, one in the area of computer architecture and one in the area of operating systems.
Projects that are not submitted will be graded with 0 points.
Plagiarism will be assessed with 0 points and reported to the examination board.

Grading

The total score for the system architecture lecture is calculated as follows from the points earned in the final or re-exam, the points earned in the quizzes, and the points earned in the projects:

k = max(pointsFinalExam/totalPointsFinalExam, pointsReExam/totalPointsReExam).
t = pointsQuizzes/totalPointsQuizzes
p = min(pointsProjects, totalPointsProjects)/totalPointsProjects

passed = k >= 0.5 && t >= 0.5 && p >= 0.5
q = 0.8 * k + 0.2 * p

The number q is then mapped to the grading scale.

Hence, in each of the three areas at least 50% of the points must be reached. The grade is based on 80% of the exam result and 20% of the project result.

Due to bonus tasks, pointsProjects can be > totalPointsProjects. min(pointsProjects, totalPointsProjects) therefore caps the project score at 100% of the regular project points to be achieved.

System Architecture for Computer Science Teachers (6 CP)

For student teachers taking the 6 CP variant of the course, the following adjustments apply:

Only the computer architecture project must be completed.
The first 4 quizzes are relevant for the exam admission.
The exam covers only the computer architecture part of the lecture, not the operating systems part.