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Sept. 7 | Introduction and Overview; Review of Bits and Numbers | P&H Ch. 1, Topic Notes: Intro, Topic Notes: Bits and Numbers |
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Sept. 10 | Computer Arithmetic and Bitwise Operations; Lab 1: Bit Manipulations in C | - |
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Sept. 12 | Floating Point Representations; Instruction Set Architecture; MIPS Assembly: Simple Arithmetic, Registers | Topic Notes: MIPS ISA, P&H Ch. 2.1-2.3 |
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Sept. 17 | MIPS ISA: Instruction Formats, Logical Operations, Branches; Lab 2: Decoding MIPS Instructions | P&H Ch. 2-4-2.6 |
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Sept. 19 | More MIPS ISA | P&H Ch. 2.9, 2.16-2.17 |
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Sept. 24 | MIPS ISA Wrapup; Brief look at IA-32; Introduction to Digital Logic; Lab 3: Introduction to Digital Logic | Topic Notes: Digital Logic, P&H App. B.1 |
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Sept. 26 | Combinational Circuits; Simplifications | P&H App. B.2-B.3 |
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Oct. 1 | Meet in lab to complete Lab 3 circuits | - |
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Oct. 3 | Adders, Multiplexers, Demultiplexers, Encoders, Decoders; Exam 1 Out (due Oct. 5) | P&H App. B.5 |
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Oct. 8 | No Class - Mid-Semester Break | - |
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Oct. 10 | Sequential Circuits; Lab 4: Sequential Circuits | Topic Notes: Sequential Circuits, P&H App. B.8 |
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Oct. 15 | More Sequential Circuits: Latches, Flip Flops, Counters | - |
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Oct. 17 | Synchronous Counters; Building Memory; Lab 5: Memory with TTL | Topic Notes: Building Memory, P&H App. B.9 |
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Oct. 22 | Building Larger Memory, working on Lab 5 | |
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Oct. 24 | SIMM Layout; Memory Parity and Error Correction | - |
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Oct. 29 | Review | |
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Oct. 31 | More Review | |
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Nov. 5 | Building a Data Path; Exam 2 Out (due Nov. 9) | Topic Notes: Data Paths and Microprogramming, P&H Ch. 5.1-5.4 |
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Nov. 7 | A Sample MIPS Implementation | P&H Ch. 5.5 |
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Nov. 12 | Multicycle control: Finite State and Microprogramming; Lab 6: MIPS Multi-Cycle Control | P&H Ch. 5.7 |
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Nov. 14 | Class Cancelled - Supercomputing '07 | |
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Nov. 19 | Microprogramming | - |
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Nov. 21 | No Class - Happy Thanksgiving! | - |
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Nov. 26 | Exceptions | Topic Notes: Exceptions, P&H Ch. 5.6 |
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Nov. 28 | RISC vs. CISC, Pipelining Introduction | Topic Notes: Pipelines, P&H Ch. 6.1 |
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Dec. 3 | Pipeline Details | P&H 6.2-6.9 |
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Dec. 5 | Memory Hierarchies and Caches | Topic Notes: Memory Hierarchies, P&H 7.1-7.3 |
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Dec. 10 | Virtual Memory; Course Evaluations | P&H 7.4-7.6 |
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Dec. 12 | Modern Architectures: Parallelism | Topic Notes: Modern Architectures: Parallelism |
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Dec. 15-19 | Take-Home Final Exam | - |
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