Course Schedule

This is a tentative lecture and reading schedule for the course. It will be updated throughout the term.

Course materials (slides, source code, and documents) are available for some lectures. Lectures containing materials are marked with a check mark in the “Docs” column. To access the materials, click on the check mark icon.

Date	Topic	Reading	Other	Docs
08/26	Introduction to Computer Organization	Chapter 1: pp. 2 - 13
	intro.pdf
08/31	Data Representation	Chapter 2: pp. 87 - 94
09/02	Introduction to Assembly Language	Appendix B: pp. B1 - B22 Chapter 2: pp. 76 - 82	Hw #1
	Lecture Slides: assembly.pdf mips.pdf Resources: MIPS Reference
09/07	MIPS: Arithmetic	Chapter 2: pp. 76 - 82
	Lecture Slides mipsmath.pdf
09/09	MIPS: Memory Access	Chapter 2: pp. 82 - 87 Appendix B: pp. B42 - B45	Hw #1 due Hw #2
	Lecture Notes mipsmemory.pdf
09/14	MIPS: Bitwise Operations	Chapter 2: pp 102 - 105, 122 - 127
	Lecture Notes bitops.pdf
09/16	MIPS: Making Decisions	Chapter 2: pp. 105 - 112	Hw #2 due Hw #3
	Lecture slides: branching.pdf
09/21	Encoding Instructions	Chapter 2: pp. 94 - 101
	Lecture Slides encodings.pdf Mips Instructions opcodes.pdf
09/23	Arrays and Pointers	Chapter 2: pp. 157 - 161	Hw #3 due Hw #4
09/28	Arrays and Pointers	Chapter 2: pp. 157 - 161	Hw #4 due
09/30	Exam One	thru Arrays and Pointers
10/05	Arrays and Pointers		Hw #5
10/07	Floating-point Representation	Chapter 3
	Lecture slides: floatnums.pdf floatops.pdf
10/12	Fall Break
10/14	MIPS: Subroutines	Chapter 2: pp. 112 - 122	Hw #5 due Hw #6
	Lecture slides: functions1.pdf
10/19	MIPS: Subroutines	Chapter 2: pp. 112 - 122
	Lecture slides: functions2.pdf
10/21	Boolean Algebra	Appendix C: pp. C1 - C7	Hw #6 due Hw #7
	Lecture slides: algebra.pdf Appendix C from the book CD. appendixC.pdf
10/26	Combinational Logic	Appendix C: pp. C8 - C12
	Lecture slides: algreview.pdf circuits.pdf
10/28	Combinational Logic	Appendix C	Hw #7 due Hw #8
	Lecture Slides: circuitsrev.pdf
11/02	Arithmetic Logic Unit	Appendix C: pp. C26 - C35
11/04	Sequential Logic	Appendix C: pp. C48 - C56	Hw #8 due
11/09	Exam Two	thru sequntial logic
11/11	RAM and ROM	Chapter 5	Hw #9
	Lecture Slides: memory.pdf caches.pdf
11/16	Caching	Chapter 5
11/18	Caching	Chapter 5
11/23	Caching	Chapter 5	Hw #9 due Hw #10
11/25	Thanksgiving Break
11/30	Building a Datapath	Chapter 4
12/02	Building a Datapath	Chapter 4	Hw #10 due
12/07	Final Exam	2pm - 5pm