Computer Organization, Fall 2009

Mon Aug 24 Chapter 1, Introduction

Wed Aug 26 Chapter 2, Data Representation

Fri Aug 28 -- character codes [last free add]

Mon Aug 31 -- number bases (Guest lecture)

Wed Sep 2 Chapter 3, Assembly into Memory

Fri Sep 4 -- structures [last add, last refund for drop]

Mon Sep 7 -- LABOR DAY (no class)

Wed Sep 9 -- arrays (example: array of months)

Fri Sep 11 Chapter 4, The Hawk architecture

Mon Sep 14 -- Load/Store

Wed Sep 16 -- Macros

Fri Sep 18 Chapter 5, Assembly Programming (example: a broken hello world program)

Mon Sep 21 -- Control Flow [Eid al Fitr (end of Ramadan)] (example: a definite loop)

Wed Sep 23 -- Input-Output (example: a more interesting loop body)

Fri Sep 25 Chapter 6, Subroutines,

Mon Sep 28 [No class, Yom Kippur]

Wed Sep 30 -- Local variables and recursion (example: a decimal print routine)

Fri Oct 2 -- Optimization (example: decimal print optimized and tested)

Mon Oct 5 Chapter 7, Byte addressing,

Wed Oct 7 -- Strings

Fri Oct 9 Midterm Exam I

Mon Oct 12 Chapter 8, Digital Logic

Wed Oct 14 -- ALUs [halfway through the semester]

Fri Oct 16 -- Shifters

Mon Oct 19 Chapter 9, Arithmetic

Wed Oct 21 -- Multiplication

Fri Oct 23 -- Division

Mon Oct 26 Chapter 10, Objects

Wed Oct 28 -- Polymorphism

Fri Oct 30 Chapter 11, Floating Point

Mon Nov 2 -- doing it in software [last date to drop courses]

Wed Nov 4 Chapter 12, Input-Output Devices

Fri Nov 6 -- Flipflops

Mon Nov 9 -- Video Displays

Wed Nov 11 Chapter 13, Exceptions, Interrupts and Traps

Fri Nov 13 -- Virtual Machines

Mon Nov 16 -- Interrupt Handlers [Preregistration Begins]

Wed Nov 18 Review

Wed Nov 20 Midterm Exam II

Nov 21-29 [Thanksgiving break] No class

Mon Nov 30 Chapter 14, Memory Management

Wed Dec 2 -- Caches

Fri Dec 4 -- Memory Management Units

Mon Dec 7 Chapter 15, Inside the CPU

Wed Dec 9 -- Pipelines and Interlocks

Fri Dec 11 -- Superscalar and multicore processors

Thu Dec 17 7:30-9:30 AM -- FINAL EXAM