Date |
Subject |
Assignment |
Week 1 |
Mon, Jan. 23
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Introduction; Terminology; Digital Circuits
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Wed, Jan. 25
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Basic assembly; converting between numeric representations
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Group Project 1
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Week 2 |
Mon, Jan. 30
|
Registers and simple loops
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Wed, Feb. 01
|
Arithmetic operations; simple functions
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Assignment 1
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Week 3 |
Mon, Feb. 06
|
Branching
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Wed, Feb. 08
|
Branching and conditions -- applications
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Week 4 |
Mon, Feb. 13
|
Functions and the stack
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Group Project 2
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Wed, Feb. 15
|
Functions continued
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Week 5 |
Mon, Feb. 20
|
President's Day Holiday
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Wed, Feb. 22
|
Functions continued (Lecture files to date)
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Week 6 |
Mon, Feb. 27
|
Interop. with C; Floating-point operations
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Wed, Mar. 01
|
Floating point and vector operations
|
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Week 7 |
Mon, Mar. 06
|
Floating point, continued
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Group Project 3
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Wed, Mar. 08
|
Instruction-level parallelism; pipelining on MIPS
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Week 8 |
Mon, Mar. 13
|
Bitwise operations
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Group Project 4
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Wed, Mar. 15
|
Midterm Review
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Midterm practice exam (Solutions)
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Week 9 |
March 20 — 24
|
Spring Recess
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March 20 — 24
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Spring Recess
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Week 10 |
Mon, Mar. 27
|
Midterm exam
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Wed, Mar. 29
|
Midterm Recap; Computer Organization and Caching
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Week 11 |
Mon, Apr. 03
|
C-compatible structures; alignment and packing
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Assignment 2
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Wed, Apr. 05
|
C-compatible structures continued
|
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Week 12 |
Mon, Apr. 10
|
Assembly on the Z80 processor
|
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Wed, Apr. 12
|
C-style strings; string operations
|
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Week 13 |
Mon, Apr. 17
|
Macros part 1
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Wed, Apr. 19
|
Macros part 2
|
Group Project 5
|
Week 14 |
Mon, Apr. 24
|
Macros part 3
|
Assignment 3
|
Wed, Apr. 26
|
Instruction formats
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Week 15 |
Mon, May. 01
|
Memory Management
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Wed, May. 03
|
Operating systems part 1: the boot process
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Week 16 |
Mon, May. 08
|
Operating systems pt. 2: boot process continued
|
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Wed, May. 10
|
Operating systems pt. 3: 32-bit mode
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Week 17 |
Mon, May. 15
|
Final review
|
Final practice exam (Solutions)
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Wed, May. 17
|
Final exam
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Assignment 4 Assignment 5
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