Computer Organization, Summer 2005

Lectures are at 9:00 and 9:50 Monday Wednesday and Friday (two lectures per day) in Room 113 MacLean Hall.

Wed Jun 8 a Chapter 1, Introduction

Wed Jun 8 b Chapter 2, Data Representation

Fri Jun 10 a -- character codes

Fri Jun 10 b -- number bases

Mon Jun 13 a Chapter 3, Assembly into Memory

Mon Jun 13 b -- structures [last free add/drop courses]

Wed Jun 15 a -- arrays

Wed Jun 15 b Chapter 4, The Hawk architecture

Fri Jun 17 a -- Load/Store

Fri Jun 17 b -- Macros [last date to add courses]

Mon Jun 20 a Chapter 5, Assembly Programming

Mon Jun 20 b -- Control Flow

Wed Jun 22 a -- Input-Output

Wed Jun 22 b Chapter 6, Subroutines,

Fri Jun 24 a -- Local variables

Fri Jun 24 b -- Recursion

Mon Jun 27 a Chapter 7, Byte addressing,

Mon Jun 27 b -- text strings

Wed Jun 29 a -- efficient strings

Wed Jun 29 b Midterm Exam I

Fri Jul 1 a Chapter 8, Digital Logic

Fri Jul 1 b -- ALUs [halfway through the semester]

Mon Jul 4 -- NO CLASS!

Wed Jul 6 a -- Shifters

Wed Jul 6 b Chapter 9, Arithmetic

Fri Jul 8 a -- Multiplication

Fri Jul 8 b -- Division

Mon Jul 11 a -- BCD

Mon Jul 11 b Chapter 10, Objects

Wed Jul 13 a -- Floating Point

Wed Jul 13 b -- IEEE Format

Fri Jul 15 a -- Polymorphism

Fri Jul 15 b Chapter 11, Input-Output Devices

Mon Jul 18 a -- Flipflops

Mon Jul 18 b -- Video Displays [last date to drop courses]

Wed Jul 20 a Chapter 12, Exceptions, Interrupts and Traps

Wed Jul 20 b -- Virtual Machines

Fri Jul 22 a -- Interrupt Handlers

Fri Jul 22 b Midterm Exam II

Mon Jul 25 a Chapter 13, Memory Management

Mon Jul 25 b -- Caches

Wed Jul 27 a -- Memory Management Units

Wed Jul 27 b Chapter 14, Inside the CPU

Fri Jul 29 a -- Pipelines

Fri Jul 29 b -- Final Exam