Computer Organization, Spring 2013

12:30 Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 118 MacLean Hall

Wed Jan 23 Chapter 1, Introduction

Fri Jan 25 Chapter 2, Data Representation

Mon Jan 28 -- character codes [last free add/drop]

Wed Jan 30 -- number bases

Fri Feb 1 Chapter 3, Assembly into Memory

Mon Feb 4 -- structures [last add, last refund for drop]

Wed Feb 6 -- arrays

Fri Feb 8 Chapter 4, The Hawk architecture

Mon Feb 11 -- Load/Store

Wed Feb 13 -- Macros [Ash Wednesday, Western Christian]

Fri Feb 15 Chapter 5, Assembly Programming

Mon Feb 18 -- Control Flow

Wed Feb 20 -- Input-Output

Fri Feb 22 Chapter 6, Subroutines,

Mon Feb 25 -- Local variables and recursion (putdec.a)

Wed Feb 27 -- Optimization

Fri Mar 1 -- Optimization

Mon Mar 4 Chapter 7, Byte addressing,

Wed Feb 6 -- Strings (hello.a demonstration)

Fri Mar 8 Midterm Exam I [Degree Applications Due]

Mon Mar 11 Chapter 8, Digital Logic

Wed Mar 13 -- ALUs [Midterm Day]

Fri Mar 15 -- Shifters [Spring Break starts]

Mon Mar 25 Chapter 9, Arithmetic

Wed Mar 27 -- Multiplication [Passover 2, Jewish]

Fri Mar 29 -- Division [Good Friday, Western Christian] [Passover 4, Jewish]

Mon Apr 1 Chapter 10, Objects [Passover 7, Jewish]

Wed Apr 3 -- Polymorphism

Fri Apr 5 Chapter 11, Floating Point

Mon Apr 8 -- doing it in software [last date to drop courses]

Wed Apr 10 Chapter 12, Input-Output Devices

Fri Apr 12 -- Flipflops

Mon Apr 15 -- Video Displays

Wed Apr 17 Chapter 13, Exceptions, Interrupts and Traps

Fri Apr 19 -- Virtual Machines

Mon Apr 22 -- Interrupt Handlers [Preregistration Begins]

Wed Apr 14 Review

Fri Apr 26 Midterm Exam II

Mon Apr 29 Chapter 14, Memory Management

Wed May 1 -- Caches

Fri May 3 -- Memory Management Units [Good Friday, Eastern Christian]

Mon May 6 Chapter 15, Inside the CPU

Wed May 8 -- Pipelines and Interlocks

Fri May 10 -- Superscalar and multicore processors

Tues May 14 5:30 PM -- FINAL EXAM (still tentative)

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