This schedule is tentative and subject to change. Readings are from the textbook.
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Tentative schedule of topics.
This is subject to change |
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Week |
Date |
Topic |
Reading |
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1 |
Aug 22 |
Syllabus and
instructor Web site review |
Syllabus from
coursebook |
| Aug 24 |
Introduction
to Computer Organization |
Ch. 1 |
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2 |
Aug 29 |
Introduction
to Assembly Language Programming |
Appendix A |
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Aug 31 |
Assembly Language Programming Performance evaluation, Amdahl's law |
Appendix A
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3 |
Sep 5 |
Labor Day holiday -- No class |
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Sep 7 |
Data
Representations: Binary, Hexadecimal, Octal |
Ch. 2.3 |
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4 |
Sep 12 |
Addressing modes |
Ch. 2.10 |
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Sep 14 |
Assembly
operations: Load, Store, Add, Subtract, etc. |
Ch. 2.2 |
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5 |
Sep 19 |
Instruction
Representation |
Ch. 2.5 |
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Sep 21 |
Comparing,
Branching, Looping |
Ch. 2.7 |
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6 |
Sep 26 |
Bit and byte
manipulation, etc. |
Ch. 2.6 |
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Sep 28 |
Test 1 Review |
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7 |
Oct 3 |
Test 1 |
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Oct 5 |
Subroutines
in Assembly Language |
Ch 2.8, A.6 |
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8 |
Oct 10 |
Memory Allocation and the Heap |
Slides |
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Oct 12 |
Addressing
modes & System software |
2.12-13 |
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9 |
Oct 17 |
Integer
Arithmetic |
Ch 3.1-3.4 |
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Oct 19 |
Floating
Point Arithmetic |
Ch 3.5 |
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10 |
Oct 24 |
Input &
Output |
Ch. 4.9, A.7 |
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Oct 26 |
Interrupts
and Exceptions |
CH. 4.10 | |
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11 |
Oct 31 |
Memory-Mapped I/O |
Ch. A.8 |
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Nov 2 |
Test 2 Review |
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12 |
Nov 7 |
Test 2 |
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Nov 9 |
Processor:
Datapath & Control |
Ch. 4.5 |
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13 |
Nov 14 |
Processor:
Pipelined Datapath |
Ch. 4.6-4.8 |
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Nov 16 |
Advanced
Instruction Level Parallelism |
Ch. 4.11 |
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14 |
Nov 21 |
Thanksgiving Break |
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Nov 23 |
Thanksgiving Break |
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15 |
Nov 28 |
Comparing ISAs |
Ch 2.16, 2.17 |
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Nov 30 |
Introduction
to memory hierarchy |
Ch. 5.1-5.3 |
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16 |
Dec 5 |
Virtual
memory |
Ch. 5.4-5.7s |
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Dec 7 |
Test Review |
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TBA |
Test 3 |
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