I have two finals on Monday. Good news: those are the only two finals I have. Bad news: I still have a paper and a technical report to write. Good news: I drafted the technical report, on my microprocessor design, tonight. Bad news: The person testing the microprocessors said he found that mine loaded a wrong number into a wrong register. Good news: I can probably fix that pretty easily, or it might be a problem with his test bench so I can blame him. Bad—oh heck! Anyway, I also recalled that I left out a feature (stalling the pipeline when the instruction following a load from memory needs the loaded value), but I obsessed over it for a while and figured out how to implement it with not too many lines of code. I'm going into the lab early tomorrow to test it. I've been spending this evening studying ineffectively for my software engineering final. Now I'm going to study ineffectively for my computer architecture final, wash the dishes, do my physical therapy, and go to bed. At a reasonable hour. So I can get up early and hit the Sun lab.
193 words | December 9, 2004 10:27 PM | Ivory tower