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University of Illinois in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
These notes serve as an outline for the ECE291 course,
not as a substitute for regular classroom attendance.
Additional discussion, clearification, and examples are provided in the classroom.

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• The lecture notes were written and created by John Lockwood.
• Numerous individuals have made major contributions to ECE291, including:
  • Prof. John Lockwood
    • Fall'98, Spring'98, Fall'97, Spring'97, Fall'96 Professor
    • Networking, MMX, FPU, graphics, code optimization
  • Jay Moorman (Summer 98 Instructor)
  • Matt Plavcan (Summer 97 Instructor)
  • Prof. Michael Loui
    • Spring '96, Fall '95, Spring '95, Fall '94, Spring '94 Professor
    • Bresenham's algorithm, stack examples
  • Joseph Gebis
  • Eric Meidel
  • Prof. Kent Fuchs
    • Development of LegoBot System
  • Prof. Gernot Metz
    • Peripheral I/O
  • Tom Maciukenas
  • Jonathan Greenlaw
  • Andy Assad
  • David Eprim Pearah
  • Michael Thiems
  • Doug Stirrett
  • Allan M. Krol
  • Brandon Long
  • Jeff Stahl

• The 'Art of Assembly' is copyright by Randall Hyde. It is included in this collection with the permission of the author.

• The interactive GradeBot and the online grading applications were written and created by John Lockwood.

• Homeworks and Machines Problems for Fall 1998 Copyright John Lockwood
  with help from Brandon Tipp (Encryption), Josh Scheid (AI)

• Homeworks and Machines Problems for Summer 1998 Copyright Jay Moorman.

• Homeworks and Machines Problems for Spring 1998 Copyright John Lockwood
  with help from Mike Carter (graphics) and Dan Restelli (sorting)

• Homeworks and Machines Problems for Fall 1997 Copyright John Lockwood

• Homeworks and Machines Problems for Summer 1997 Copyright Matt Plavcan

• Homeworks and Machines Problems for Spring 1997 Copyright John Lockwood

• Homeworks and Machines Problems for Fall 1996 Copyright John Lockwood
  (first on-line class)

• Notes
  • Software examples can be assembled with Microsoft MASM 6.11
    (patched to 6.13 to support MMX).
  • Diagrams in these lecture notes were created with Corel Draw