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Fall 2006, Dr. Ken Hoganson
Lecture time Clendenning CS Building, Room 3028
All lectures are live online, and recorded at:
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This first course in the two-course sequence (8421&8422) will focus on computer
organization and architecture, performance enhancements and an
introduction to operating systems. Topics will include basic digital
logic, assembly language, architecture layers, buses, memory
organization, CPU design, RISC, cache, pipelines, parallel computing.
This course will be taught as a hybrid-course -
where some class meeting times will be used for project work and three previously recorded lectures will be viewed, a simulation system will be utilized,
and a programming project using Java threads will be the final exam project.
This course will include the downloadable lecture formats for use with iPODs and PDAs.
Textbook:
My Concepts in Computing textbook will also be a useful reference for various sections.
| Saturday August 26: First day of class: Lecture 1 | Course Introduction and start on Layer 0. |
| August 26 : Lecture 2 | Gates & Boolean Logic |
| Sept 6 : Lecture 3 | Computer Number Systems |
| Sept 11 : Lecture 4 | Computer Number Systems & Homework |
| Sept 13 : Lecture 5 | Transistor/Gate Experiments |
| Sept 18 : Lecture 6 | Constructing Simple Devices from Gates |
| Sept 20 : Lecture 7 | CPU Functions |
| Sept 25 : Lecture 8 | Interrupts & Interconnects |
| Sept 27 : Lecture 9 | Boolean Function Example
Bus Design |
| Oct 2 : Lecture 10 | Memory Design: S-R Latch, D-Latch, Flip-Flops, Integrated Circuit, System Memory |
| Oct 4 : Lecture 11 | System Memory Design Problems |
| Oct 9 : Lecture 12 | Minimal Mult & Div in HW |
| Oct 11 : Lecture 13 | Cache Part 1 |
| Oct 13-22 : Midterm Exam | Due BEFORE Monday Oct 23 |
| Oct 23 : Lecture 14 | Cache Part 2, Examples & Homework |
| Oct 25 : Lecture 15 | Instruction Set Design |
| Oct 30 : Lecture 16 | Instruction Analysis & CPU |
| Nov 6 : Lecture 17 | CPU & Microcode |
| Nov 8 : REDO Lecture 17 | Repeat of CPU & Microcode |
| Nov 15 : Lecture 18 | Pipeline |
| Nov 20 : Lecture 19 | Intro to Operating Systems |
| Nov 27 : Lecture 20 | OS Time Management |
| Nov 29 : Lecture 21 | OS Time Management P2 |
| Dec 4 : Lecture 22 | OS Memory Management |
| Dec 6 : Lecture 23 | Introduction to Parallel Processing |
| Final Exam | Final Exam Due on Thursday, December 14. |