CS 203, Fall 2012Computer OrganizationMatthew E. Taylor (Matt) taylorm@lafayette.edu AEC 522 Syllabus: Fall 2012 |
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Topic
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Assignment
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Lab
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Week 1: 8/28 |
What is this class about? Just for fun: Kingdom Rush Hack | Lab 1: Getting Started. Due by 11:59pm on Monday 9/3 | |
Hex, Bit operations | Read chapter 1 Upload picture of yourself to Moodle | ||
Week 2: 9/4 |
Signed and Unsigned ints | Lab 2 Writeup, Handout: Manipulating Bits. Due by 11:59pm on Thursday 9/13 | |
Addition and Multiplication | |||
Week 3: 9/11 |
Quiz and Floating point | Read through p.99 | |
Floating Point | Lab 3: Exploring Assembly. Due by 11:59pm on Friday 9/21 | ||
Week 4: 9/18 |
Floating Point Operations | ||
Assembly: Operators and Addressing | Finish chapter 2 | ||
Week 5: 9/25 |
Converting C to x86 and back again | Read up to p. 185 | Lab 4. Due by 11:59pm on Monday, 10/1 |
Stack | |||
Week 6: 10/2 |
Arrays and Structs | Lab 5. Due by 11:55pm on Friday 10/12 | |
Multi-dimentional Arrays | Read up to p. 251 | ||
Week 7: 10/9 |
Fall Break
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End of chapter 3 | |||
Week 8: 10/16 | Pratice for midterm | Finish reading chapter 3. Read chapter (on moodle) from A History of Modern Computing. Create a question + answer that could be on the midterm and post to moodle. | |
Midterm
| Some suggested problems: 2.84b, 2.88(a-e), 2.67, 2.83, 2.84, 2.88, 3.56, 3.58, 3.59, 3.62 | ||
Week 9: 10/23 | Review midterm and review of logic | Check out http://www.neuroproductions.be/logic-lab/ and load the Logic Ports from the Examples (bottom of the page). Use this to review the gates we covered in class. | Project 1 Due Monday, 11/12, 11:55pm Update - path is incorrect. You want to copy from 2012_CS203 not 2012_cs203. |
Gates and adders | |||
Week 10: 10/30 | |||
NO CLASS: No power
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Week 11: 11/6 | Clocks and Memory (see Moodle site for supplementary .pdf) | ||
Y86 | Suggested Logic problems (nothing to hand in): p. 766 (Boolean Algebra .pdf): 10, 13, 16, 17 | Lab 6: Circuits Due by Wednesday, 11/14, 11:55pm | |
Week 12: 11/13 | HCL, Memory, SEQ | Suggested Logic problems (nothing to hand in): p. 779 (Boolean Algebra .pdf): 4, 6, 12, 21, 30, 31 | |
SEQ | |||
Week 13: 11/20 | Pipelines |
Project 2 (Files) Lab 7: sum.ys (in part A) due by Monday, 11/26, 11:55pm Lab 8: iaddl (in seq-full.hcl) due by Friday, 11/30, 11:55pm Remainder of project due by Friday, 12/14, 11:55pm Notes: Makefile needs to be updated to use: TKINC=-isystem /usr/include/tcl8.5 (instead of tcl8.4) | |
Thanksgiving
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Week 14: 11/27 | Show me the Cache | Finish reading chapter 4 | |
Caching and Performance | |||
Week 15: 12/4 | Writing Better Code | Finish reading chapter 6 | |
Course Summary | |||
Week 16: 12/12 | Wednesday, 12/12, 8-11am |