| Date |
Subject |
Assignment |
| Week 1 |
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Mon, Aug. 22
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Introduction; Terminology; Digital Circuits
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Wed, Aug. 24
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Basic assembly; converting between numeric representations
(In-class notes)
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Assignment 1: See Canvas for details/submission
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| Week 2 |
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Mon, Aug. 29
|
Registers and simple loops
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Wed, Aug. 31
|
Arithmetic operations; simple functions
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| Week 3 |
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Mon, Sep. 05
|
Labor Day
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Assignment 2
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Wed, Sep. 07
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Branching
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| Week 4 |
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Mon, Sep. 12
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Branching and conditions -- applications
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Wed, Sep. 14
|
Functions and the stack
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| Week 5 |
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Mon, Sep. 19
|
Functions continued
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Wed, Sep. 21
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Functions continued
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| Week 6 |
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Mon, Sep. 26
|
Interop. with C; Floating-point operations
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Wed, Sep. 28
|
Floating point and vector operations
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| Week 7 |
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Mon, Oct. 03
|
Floating point, continued
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Assignment 3
Group project 3
Assigmnent 4
Group project 3
Group project 4
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Wed, Oct. 05
|
Instruction-level parallelism; pipelining on MIPS
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| Week 8 |
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Mon, Oct. 10
|
Bitwise operations
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Assignment 5 — Caching
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Wed, Oct. 12
|
Midterm Review
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Midterm practice test
(Solutions)
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| Week 9 |
|
Mon, Oct. 17
|
Midterm exam
|
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Wed, Oct. 19
|
Midterm Recap; Computer Organization and Caching
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| Week 10 |
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Mon, Oct. 24
|
C-compatible structures; alignment and packing
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Wed, Oct. 26
|
C-compatible structures continued
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| Week 11 |
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Mon, Oct. 31
|
Assembly on the Z80 processor
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Wed, Nov. 02
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C-style strings; string operations
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| Week 12 |
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Mon, Nov. 07
|
Macros part 1
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Wed, Nov. 09
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Macros part 2
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| Week 13 |
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Mon, Nov. 14
|
Macros part 3
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Wed, Nov. 16
|
Instruction formats
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| Week 14 |
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Mon, Nov. 21
|
Memory Management
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Assignment 6 — Decoding MIPS
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Wed, Nov. 23
|
Operating systems part 1: the boot process
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| Week 15 |
|
Mon, Nov. 28
|
Operating systems pt. 2: boot process continued
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Wed, Nov. 30
|
Operating systems pt. 3: 32-bit mode
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Assignment 7 — Hello world in 16-bit mode
Final practice test
(Solutions)
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| Week 16 |
|
Mon, Dec. 05
|
Final review
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Wed, Dec. 07
|
Final exam
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