22C:18, Lecture Notes and Schedule, Fall 1996

Mon Aug 26 -- What is this course?

Wed Aug 28 -- Number Systems

Fri Aug 30 -- Arithmetic

Mon Sep. 2 [Labor Day, no class!]

Wed Sep. 4 -- Memory, architecture and assembly language

Fri Sep. 6 -- The Hawk architecture

Mon Sep. 9 [Last free drop/add] -- Hawk memory reference instructions

Wed Sep 11 -- Macros and assembly language

Fri Sep 13 -- Hawk branch instructions

Mon Sep 16 [Last add] -- Control Structures

Wed Sep 18 -- Memory Mapped Output and Byte Addressing

Fri Sep 20 -- Debugging and Packed versus Unpacked Structures

Mon Sep 23 [Yom Kippur] -- No classes!

Wed Sep 25 -- Relative Addresses, Procedures, Calling Sequences

Fri Sep 27 -- Hawk byte, half and doubleword arithmetic

Mon Sep 30 -- Russian Peasant Multiplication

Wed Oct. 2 -- Review

Fri Oct. 4 -- Exam I

Mon Oct. 7 -- Separate Assembly, Linking and Commons

Wed Oct. 9 -- Recursion and Activation Records

Fri Oct 11 -- Fixed Point Numbers

Mon Oct 14 -- Floating Point Numbers

Wed Oct 16 [Midpoint] -- BCD, Double Precision, and Fast String Ops

Fri Oct 18 -- Arrays and the case statement

Mon Oct 21 -- Lexicographic trees and heaps

Wed Oct 23 -- Recursive tree traversal

Fri Oct 25 -- Object Oriented Programming

Mon Oct 28 -- Polymorphic Objecs in Assembly Language

Wed Oct 30 -- Review

Fri Nov. 1 -- Exam II

Mon Nov. 4 [Drop deadline] -- A large example (an RPN calculator)

Wed Nov. 6 -- Compilers (illustrated with compiling RPN)

Fri Nov. 8 -- Compiling Procedure Calls

Mon Nov 11 -- Design Choices and Adding Loops to the RPN Example

Wed Nov 13 -- Compiling Control Structures, Advanced Macros

Fri Nov 15 -- A Second Approach to Compiling While Loops

Mon Nov 18 -- Traps and Interrupts

Wed Nov 20 -- Extending the Instruction Set (Virtual Machines)

Fri Nov 22 -- Privilege, Protection and Security

Mon Nov 25 -- Memory Management and Virtual Memory

Mon Dec. 2 -- I/O interrupts (Keyboard Input and Type-Ahead)

Wed Dec. 4 -- Disk Geometry

Fri Dec. 6 -- Disk Software

Mon Dec. 9 -- Pedagogical Lies Revealed (pipelines, caches, bus structure)

Wed Dec 11 -- Review

Fri Dec 13 -- Review

Final Exam

Mon Dec 16, 2:15 PM