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| Week | Reading | Lecture Topic(s) | Special Events |
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| 1 | COD 1, 2 |
Overview Evolution of Computer Organization Information representation - character and integer Instruction Set Architectures Assembly Language Programming using MIPS - Data Movement |
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| 2 | COD 2, App. B |
Assembly Language Programming using MIPS - Data Movement Assembly Language Programming using MIPS - Control Flow |
Last day to drop/add: Sun. start wk 2 |
| 3 |
COD 2, App. B; Notes |
Assembly Language Programming using MIPS - Control Flow Information representation - floating point |
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| 4 | COD App. B | Program Translation - Assemblers and Linkers | EXAM 1 |
| 5 | COD 2.4, App. C; Notes |
Introduction to Digital Design Boolean Algebra |
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| 6 | COD 3, App. C |
Digital Design Computer Arithmetic |
Report Final Exam Conflicts |
| 7 | COD App. C | Digital Design | EXAM 2 |
| 8 | COD 4, 6.5, App. C |
The ALU CPU Design |
Last day to withdraw: Fri. |
| 9 | COD 4; Notes | CPU Design | |
| 10 | COD 4, 5, 6.6, App. B.7 - B.8 |
CPU Design Pipelining Input/Output, Polling and Interrupts Memory |
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| 11 | Final exam | ||
Key to Reading
| tbd | Still under development |
| Notes | Topic-specific materials not covered in the textbook |
| COD | Computer Organization & Design, Fourth edition, by David Patterson and John Hennessy |
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