Computer Organization and Hardware, Fall 2003

Lectures are at 1:30 Monday and Wednesday in Room 70 Van Allen Hall.

Mon Aug 25 Chapter 1, Introduction

Wed Aug 27 Chapter 2, Data Representation

Mon Sep 1 [Labor Day, no class!]

Wed Sep 3 Chapter 3, Assembly into Memory

Mon Sep 8 Chapter 4, The Hawk architecture [last free drop]

Wed Sep 10 -- Load/Store and Macros

Mon Sep 15 Chapter 5, Assembly Programming [last add]

Wed Sep 17 -- Control Flow and Input Output

Mon Sep 22 Chapter 6, Subroutines,

Wed Sep 24 -- Local variables and Recursion

Mon Sep 29 Chapter 7, Byte addressing,

Wed Oct 1 -- text strings Midterm Exam I

Mon Oct 6 [Yom Kippur, no class!]

Wed Oct 8 -- efficient strings

Mon Oct 13 Chapter 8, Digital Logic

Wed Oct 15 -- ALUs and Shifters

Mon Oct 20 Chapter 9, Arithmetic

Wed Oct 22 -- BCD, Floating Point

Mon Oct 27 Chapter 10, Objects

Wed Oct 29 -- Polymorphism

Mon Nov 3 Chapter 11, Input-Output Devices [last undergrad drop]

Wed Nov 5 -- Video Displays

Mon Nov 10 Chapter 12, Exceptions, Interrupts and Traps

Wed Nov 12 -- Review Midterm Exam II

Mon Nov 17 -- Interrupts [spring preregistration begins]

Wed Nov 19 -- Virtual Machines

Mon Nov 24 [Thanksgiving break]

Wed Nov 26 [Thanksgiving break]

Mon Dec 1 Chapter 13, Memory Management

Wed Dec 3 -- Operating System Support

Mon Dec 8 Chapter 14, Inside the CPU

Wed Dec 10 -- Pipelines

Final Exam

Tue Dec 16, 4:30 PM