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 |
Jan 19 |
Syllabus and
instructor Web site review |
Syllabus from
coursebook |
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2 |
Jan 24 |
Introduction
to Computer Organization |
Ch. 1 |
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Jan 26 |
Introduction
to Assembly Language Programming |
Appendix A |
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3 |
Jan 31 |
Performance
evaluation, Amdahl's law |
Ch. 1.6, 1.9 |
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Feb 2 |
Data
Representations: Binary, Hexadecimal, Octal |
Ch. 2.3 |
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4 |
Feb 7 |
Number
Representations: signed, floating point |
Ch. 2.4 |
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Feb 9 |
Instruction
Representation |
Ch. 2.5 |
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5 |
Feb 14 |
Assembly
operations: Load, Store, Add, Subtract, etc. |
Ch. 2.2 |
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Feb 16 |
Comparing,
Branching, Looping |
Ch. 2.7 |
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6 |
Feb 21 |
Bit and byte
manipulation, etc. |
Ch. 2.6 |
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Feb 23 |
Test 1 Review |
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7 |
Feb 28 |
Test 1 |
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Mar 2 |
Subroutines
in Assembly Language |
Ch 2.8, A.6 |
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8 |
Mar 7 |
Comparing
ISAs |
Ch 2.16, 2.17 |
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Mar 9 |
Addressing
modes & System software |
Ch 2.10,
2.12-13 |
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9 |
Mar 14 |
Spring Break -- No classes |
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Mar 16 |
Spring Break -- No classes |
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10 |
Mar 21 |
Integer
Arithmetic |
Ch 3.1-3.4 |
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Mar 23 |
Floating
Point Arithmetic |
Ch 3.5 |
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11 |
Mar 28 |
Input &
Output |
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Mar 30 |
Interrupts
and Exceptions |
Ch. 4.9, A.7 |
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12 |
Apr 4 |
Processor:
Datapath & Control |
Ch. 4.1-4.4 |
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Apr 6 |
Test 2 Review |
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13 |
Apr 11 |
Test 2 |
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Apr 13 |
Processor:
Pipelining |
Ch. 4.5 |
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14 |
Apr 18 |
Processor:
Pipelined Datapath |
Ch. 4.6-4.8 |
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Apr 20 |
Advanced
Instruction Level Parallelism |
Ch. 4.10 |
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15 |
Apr 25 |
Introduction
to memory hierarchy |
Ch. 5.1-5.3 |
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Apr 27 |
Virtual
memory |
Ch. 5.4-5.7s |
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16 |
May 2 |
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May 4 |
Test Review |
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May 11 |
Test 3 |
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