Computer Organization, Fall 2014

Mon Aug 25 Chapter 1, Introduction

Wed Aug 27 Chapter 2, Data Representation

Fri Aug 29 -- character codes [last free add/drop] [Ganesh Chaturthi (Hindu)]

Wed Sep 3 -- number bases

Fri Sep 5 -- structures

Mon Sep 8 -- arrays [last add, last refund for drop]

Wed Sep 10 Chapter 4, The Hawk architecture

Fri Sep 12 -- Load/Store

Mon Sep 15 -- Macros

Wed Sep 17 Chapter 5, Assembly Programming

Fri Sep 19 -- Control Flow

Mon Sep 22 -- Input-Output

Wed Sep 24 Chapter 6, Subroutines,

Fri Sep 26 -- no class [Rosh Hashana II(Jewish)]

Mon Sep 29 -- Local variables and recursion

Wed Oct 1 -- Optimization

Fri Oct 3 -- Optimization [Day of Arafa (Muslim)]

Mon Oct 6 Chapter 7, Byte addressing,

Wed Oct 8 -- Strings

Fri Oct 10 Midterm Exam I [Degree Applications Due] [Succot II (Jewish)]

Mon Oct 13 Chapter 8, Digital Logic [Succot V (Jewish)]

Wed Oct 15 -- ALUs [Midterm Day] [Succot VII (Jewish)]

Fri Oct 17 -- Shifters [Simchat Torah (Jewish)]

Mon Oct 20 Chapter 9, Arithmetic

Wed Oct 22 -- Multiplication

Fri Oct 24 -- Division

Mon Oct 27 Chapter 10, Objects

Wed Oct 29 -- Polymorphism

Fri Oct 31 Chapter 11, Floating Point [Halloween (Christian?)]

Mon Nov 3 -- doing it in software [undergrad drop deadline]

Wed Nov 5 Chapter 12, Input-Output Devices

Fri Nov 7 -- Flipflops

Mon Nov 10 -- Video Displays [Preregistration Begins]

Wed Nov 12 Chapter 13, Exceptions, Interrupts and Traps

Fri Nov 14 -- Virtual Machines

Mon Nov 17 -- Interrupt Handlers

Wed Nov 19 Review

Fri Nov 21 Midterm Exam II

Mon Dec 1 Chapter 14, Memory Management

Wed Dec 3 -- Caches

Fri Dec 5 -- Memory Management Units

Mon Dec 8 Chapter 15, Inside the CPU

Wed Dec 10 -- Pipelines and Interlocks

Fri Dec 12 -- Superscalar and multicore processors

Wed Dec 17 5:30-7:30 PM W307 PBB -- FINAL EXAM

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