Computer Organization, Spring 2005

Lectures are at 12:30 Monday Wednesday and Friday in Room 113 MacLean Hall.

Wed Jan 19 Chapter 1, Introduction

Fri Jan 21 Chapter 2, Data Representation

Mon Jan 24

Wed Jan 26

Fri Jan 28 Chapter 3, Assembly into Memory

Mon Jan 31 [last date to add courses]

Wed Feb 2

Fri Feb 4 Chapter 4, The Hawk architecture

Mon Feb 7 -- Load/Store

Wed Feb 9 -- Macros

Fri Feb 11 Chapter 5, Assembly Programming

Mon Feb 14 -- Control Flow

Wed Feb 16 -- Input-Output

Fri Feb 18 Chapter 6, Subroutines,

Mon Feb 21 -- Local variables

Wed Feb 23 -- Recursion

Fri Feb 25 Chapter 7, Byte addressing,

Mon Feb 28 -- text strings

Wed Mar 2 -- efficient strings

Fri Mar 4 Midterm Exam I

Mon Mar 7 Chapter 8, Digital Logic

Wed Mar 9 -- ALUs [halfway through the semester]

Fri Mar 11 -- Shifters

spring break

Mon Mar 21 Chapter 9, Arithmetic

Wed Mar 23 -- Multiplication

Fri Mar 25 -- Division

Mon Mar 28 -- BCD

Wed Mar 30 Chapter 10, Objects

Fri Apr 1 -- Floating Point

Mon Apr 4 -- IEEE Format [last date to drop course]

Wed Apr 6 -- Polymorphism

Fri Apr 8 Chapter 11, Input-Output Devices

Mon Apr 11 -- Flipflops

Wed Apr 13 -- Video Displays

Fri Apr 15 Chapter 12, Exceptions, Interrupts and Traps

Mon Apr 18 -- Virtual Machines [fall and summer preregistration begins]

Wed Apr 20 -- Interrupt Handlers

Fri Apr 22 Midterm Exam II

Mon Apr 25 Chapter 13, Memory Management

Wed Apr 27 -- Caches

Fri Apr 28 -- Memory Management Units

Mon May 2 Chapter 14, Inside the CPU

Wed May 4 -- Pipelines

Fri May 6

Final Exam

Mon May 9, 7:30 AM