Computer Organization, Fall 2005

Lectures are at 1:30 Monday Wednesday and Friday in Room 109 EPB.

Mon Aug 22 Chapter 1, Introduction

Wed Aug 24 Chapter 2, Data Representation

Fri Aug 26 -- character codes

Mon Aug 29 -- number bases

Wed Aug 31 Chapter 3, Assembly into Memory

Fri Sep 2 -- structures [last free drop]

Mon Sep 5 -- LABOR DAY (no class)

Wed Sep 7 -- arrays

Fri Sep 9 Chapter 4, The Hawk architecture

Mon Sep 12 -- Load/Store

Wed Sep 14 -- Macros

Fri Sep 16 Chapter 5, Assembly Programming

Mon Sep 19 -- Control Flow

Wed Sep 21 -- Input-Output (example, sum.a)

Fri Sep 23 Chapter 6, Subroutines,

Mon Sep 26 -- Local variables (example, putdec.a)

Wed Sep 28 -- Recursion (example, traverse.a)

Fri Sep 30 Chapter 7, Byte addressing,

Mon Oct 3 -- text strings

Wed Oct 5 -- efficient strings [Day II, Rosh HaShannah; happy 5766]

Fri Oct 7 Midterm Exam I

Mon Oct 10 Chapter 8, Digital Logic

Wed Oct 12 -- ALUs [halfway through the semester]

Fri Oct 14 -- Shifters

Mon Oct 17 Chapter 9, Arithmetic

Wed Oct 19 -- Multiplication [Succot II]

Fri Oct 21 -- Division

Mon Oct 24 -- BCD [Succot VII]

Wed Oct 26 Chapter 10, Objects [Simchat Torah]

Fri Oct 28 -- Floating Point

Mon Oct 31 -- IEEE Format [last date to drop courses] [Haloween]

Wed Nov 2 -- Polymorphism

Fri Nov 4 Chapter 11, Input-Output Devices

Mon Nov 7 -- Flipflops

Wed Nov 9 -- Video Displays

Fri Nov 11 Chapter 12, Exceptions, Interrupts and Traps

Mon Nov 14 -- Virtual Machines

Wed Nov 16 a -- Interrupt Handlers

Fri Nov 18 b Midterm Exam II

Nov 19-27 [Thanksgiving break] No class

Mon Nov 28 Chapter 13, Memory Management

Wed Nov 30 b -- Caches

Fri Dec 2 -- Memory Management Units

Mon Dec 5 Chapter 14, Inside the CPU

Wed Dec 7 -- Pipelines

Fri Dec 9 -- Review

Tue Dec 13, 9:45 AM -- FINAL EXAM