From kenmac Tue Feb  4 11:45:25 -0500 2003
From: "Kenneth M. Mackenzie" <kenmac@midway.cc.gatech.edu>
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Subject: Project 1
Reply-to: kenmac@cc.gatech.edu

Hi all,

  o  I'd like to push back the Project 1 deadline to next week (Friday,
     14-Feb).  The simulation are taking longer with simplescalar than
     with the previous simulator I used for this class, for one thing
     and the lectures are running a little behind what I'd like for
     another.

     The downsides are:

       (a) you get less formal grade feedback before drop date (pretty
           minor because you can tell for yourself how well you're
           doing the project)

       (b) less intuition gained from the project to apply to the quiz.

     I guess the message is don't stop working this week just because
     the deadline moved -- get at least a first-cut cache design on
     paper, simulated and AMAT'd before the quiz!

     Note that I don't intend in general to spring "suprise" deadline
     changes on you!

  o  Couple of bugs in the Project 1 handout (kudos to Duke for both):

	2B: "limit associativity to 1 < N < 8-way"
	    should read "1 <= N <= 8-way".  Then there's the spelling
	    error in there as well...

        2F: the example uses a memory cost of 100nS when it should be
            200nS (200 cycles).

-- Ken