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Date | Topic and/or Event | Readings |
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Sept. 8 | Introduction and Overview | Tanen Ch. 1 |
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Sept. 11 | Binary Data Representations | Tanen App. A |
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Sept. 11/12 | Lab 1: Binary Representations and C Practice | K&R |
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Sept. 13 | Binary Arithmetic, Signed Representations | Tanen App. B |
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Sept. 15 | Signed Arithmetic, Logical Operations | |
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Sept. 18 | Floating Point Representations, vonNeumann Architectures, MC68K Organization | Handouts |
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Sept. 18/19 | Lab 2: Programming the Palm Pilot | |
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Sept. 20 | MC68K Instruction Set, Assembly Programming | |
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Sept. 22 | More Assembly Programming, Addressing Modes | Tanen Ch. 5.3 |
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Sept. 25 | More Assembly Programming | |
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Sept. 25/26 | Lab 3: Assembly on the Palm Pilot | |
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Sept. 27 | Introduction to Logic, Combinational Circuits | Tanen Ch. 3.1, 3.2.2 |
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Sept. 29 | Combinational Circuits, Simplification | Tanen Ch. 3.2.3 |
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Oct. 2 | Multiplexers and Demultiplexers, Half-Adders, Full Adders | |
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Oct. 2/3 | Lab 4: Digital Logic Lab I | |
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Oct. 4 | Ripple-Carry Adders, Subtractors, Faster Adders, Encoders/Decoders, Exam Out | |
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Oct. 6 | No class - Mountain Day! | |
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Oct. 9 | No class - Fall Reading Period | |
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Oct. 9/10 | No formal lab meeting - Fall Reading Period Lab 5: Assembly Subroutines | |
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Oct. 11 | Subroutine Calls in Assembly | |
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Oct. 13 | Assembly Subroutines | |
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Oct. 16 | Sequential Circuits, Latches and Flip-Flops | Tanen Ch. 3.2.4, 3.3.1-3.3.2 |
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Oct. 16/17 | Lab 6: Sequential Circuits | |
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Oct. 18 | More Latches and Flip-Flops, Counters | |
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Oct. 20 | Synchronous Counters, Arrays in Assembly Language | |
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Oct. 23 | Saving Registers for Procedure Calls, Building Memory | |
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Oct. 23/24 | Lab 7: Assembly Programming with Arrays | |
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Oct. 25 | Building Memory | Tanen Ch. 3.3.3-3.3.5 |
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Oct. 27 | SIMM Layout, Memory Parity and Error Correction | |
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Oct. 30 | Memory Error Correction, Computation Circuits | |
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Oct. 30/31 | Lab 8: Memory with TTL | |
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Nov. 1 | Computation Circuits, Bonus Lab: Computation Circuit | |
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Nov. 3 | Microarchitecture: Intro and the MIC1 | Tanen 1990 Ch. 4 Handout |
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Nov. 6 | Exam Review | |
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Nov. 6/7 | No lab - Exam This Week | |
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Nov. 8 | MIC1 Data Path, Exam Out | |
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Nov. 10 | Instruction Set Architecture, MIC1 Microprogramming | |
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Nov. 13 | MIC1 Microprogramming, Microcode Project Overview | |
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Nov. 13/14 | Final Project: The WC34000 Implementation Project | |
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Nov. 15 | MIC1 Microprogramming, The WC34000 Computer | |
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Nov. 17 | The WC34000 Computer | |
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Nov. 20 | RISC vs. CISC | Tanen Ch. 2.1.3 |
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Nov. 20/21 | No New Lab. Optional lab meeting to learn Subversion | |
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Nov. 22-24 | No class - Happy Thanksgiving | |
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Nov. 27 | Exam Back, Assembly Examples | |
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Nov. 27/28 | No New Lab - Work on Final Project | |
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Nov. 29 | Pipelines, Branch Prediction, Register Windows | |
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Dec. 1 | Register Windows, Cache Memory | Tanen Ch. 4.5.1 |
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Dec. 4 | Cache Memory | |
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Dec. 4/5 | No New Lab - Work on Final Project | |
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Dec. 6 | Virtual Memory | |
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Dec. 8 | Current Architectures, Parallelism | |
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Dec. 9-17 | 24-Hour Take-Home Final Exam, Pick up from the Registrar | |
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