Computer Organization, Fall 2008

9:30 Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 105 MacLean Hall

Mon Aug 25 Chapter 1, Introduction

Wed Aug 27 Chapter 2, Data Representation

Fri Aug 29 -- character codes [last free add]

Mon Sep 1 -- LABOR DAY (no class)

Wed Sep 3 -- number bases

Fri Sep 5 Chapter 3, Assembly into Memory

Mon Sep 8 -- structures [last add, last refund for drop]

Wed Sep 10 -- arrays example.a

Fri Sep 12 Chapter 4, The Hawk architecture

Mon Sep 15 -- Load/Store

Wed Sep 17 -- Macros

Fri Sep 19 Chapter 5, Assembly Programming

Mon Sep 22 -- Control Flow

Wed Sep 24 -- Input-Output babbage.a

Fri Sep 29 Chapter 6, Subroutines,

Wed Oct 1 [No class, Rosh Hashana II]

Fri Oct 3 -- Local variables and recursion putdec.a (original)

Mon Oct 6 -- Optimization putdec.a (optimized)

Wed Oct 8 Chapter 7, Byte addressing,

Fri Oct 10 Midterm Exam I

Mon Oct 13 -- Strings

Wed Oct 15 Chapter 8, Digital Logic [halfway through the semester]

Fri Oct 17 -- ALUs

Mon Oct 20 -- Shifters

Wed Oct 22 Chapter 9, Arithmetic

Fri Oct 24 -- Multiplication

Mon Oct 27 -- Division

Wed Oct 29 Chapter 10, Objects

Fri Oct 31 -- Polymorphism

Mon Nov 3 Chapter 11, Floating Point [last date to drop courses]

Wed Nov 5 -- doing it in software

Fri Nov 7 Chapter 12, Input-Output Devices

Mon Nov 10 -- Flipflops

Wed Nov 12 -- Video Displays

Fri Nov 14 Chapter 13, Exceptions, Interrupts and Traps [Preregistration Begins]

Mon Nov 17 -- Virtual Machines

Wed Nov 19 -- Interrupt Handlers

Fri Nov 21 Midterm Exam II

Nov 22-30 [Thanksgiving break] No class

Mon Dec 1 Chapter 14, Memory Management (guest lecture due to jury duty)

Wed Dec 3 -- Caches (no lecture due to jury duty)

Fri Dec 5 -- Memory Management Units (guest lecture due to jury duty)

Mon Dec 8 Chapter 15, Inside the CPU (guest lecture due to jury duty)

Wed Dec 10 -- Pipelines and Interlocks

Fri Dec 12 -- Superscalar and multicore processors

Thu Dec 18 9:45-11:45 AM -- FINAL EXAM