CS310 Spring 2009 Schedule, Handouts, and Reading

 
Week Date Lec # Topic Reading BEFORE this date  Additional Resources Out In
(Due)
1 1/21 L1 Course Introduction        
  1/22 D1 Meet your TA, unix, course logistics        
2 1/26 L2 Digital representations and switch logic Patt and Patel: 1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2; Maccabe: 1.1 1.2 CMOS switch demo applet HW #1  
  1/28 L3 Boolean logic, NAND and NOR gates Patt and Patel: 3.2; Maccabe: 2.1 CMOS logic gate demo applets    
  1/29 D2 Binary/hex numbers, boolean algebra and switch logic review        
3 2/2 L4 Combinational logic blocks (adder, mux, decoder, ...) Patt and Patel: 3.3; Maccabe: 2.3 Adder demo applets Combinational logic demo applets HW #2  
  2/4 L5 Storage - latches, flip-flops, registers Patt and Patel: 3.4 Storage element demo applets    
  2/5 D3 Logic design review and practice        
4 2/9 L6 Memory, clocks, sequential circuits Patt and Patel: 3.5; Maccabe: 2.2, 2.4, 3.1   HW #3 HW #1
  2/11 L7 State machines, intro to LC-3 datapath Patt and Patel: 3.6, 3.7      
  2/12 D4 State elements, sequential circuits       HW #2
5 2/16 L8 Binary representations - integers, chars, floating point Patt and Patel: 2.3, 2.5-2.7; Maccabe: 7, 8   HW #4  
  2/18 L9 Floating point operations Patt and Patel: 4.1, 4.2;      
  2/19 D5 State machine, binary representation review   HW #5   HW #3
6 2/23 L10 Indroduction to von Neumann computers, LC-3 ISA overview Patt and Patel: 4      
  2/25 L11 LC-3 Memory organization, load/store instructions Patt and Patel: 5.1-5.5; Maccabe 3.2, 4.1-4.4      
  2/26 D6 Conditional branches, loops       HW #4
7 3/2 L12 Wrap-up and quiz review   Sample old quiz    
  3/4 Q1 Quiz #1        
  3/5 D7 Quiz review        
8 3/9 L13 Instruction execution, register transfer level (RTL), Traps
Example code 		Patt and Patel: 5.5, 6   HW #6
Programs for HW #6 		 
  3/11 L14 Instruction execution and the datapath - RTL description        
  3/12 D8 RTL examples
RTL Examples 		      HW #5
SB 3/16   Spring Break        
  3/18   Spring Break        
  3/19   Spring Break        
9 3/23 L15 RTL for more instructions, introduction to I/O
RTL Examples 		    HW #7
Programs for HW #7 		 
  3/25 L16 Interrupt driven I/O
Example code 		       
  3/26 D9 Datapath, RTL, I/O Review       HW #6
10 3/30 L17 Assemblers, linking and loading Patt and Patel: 9; Maccabe: 10   HW #8
Programs for HW #8 		 
  4/1 L18 Examples of linking and loading
Example code 		       
  4/2 D10 Review of assembly, linking, loading       HW #7
11 4/6 L19 Wrap-up and quiz review        
  4/8 Q2 Quiz #2        
  4/9 D11 Quiz review        
12 4/13 L20 Introduction to C programming - data types procedure calling, linkage conventions
Example Code 		Patt and Patel: 10-14 Maccabe: 6      
  4/15 L21 Procedure calling, activation records
        
  4/16 D12 Activation record contruction, stack management        
13 4/20 L22 Pointers and dynamic memory allocation
Example Code		 Patt and Patel: 16, 17   HW #9
Programs for HW #9 		 
  4/22 L23 Heaps and data structures
Example Code
More Example Code 		Patt and Patel: 19      
  4/23 D13 Data structures and heaps       HW #8
14 4/27 L24 LC-3 control logic, microprogramming Patt and Patel: appendix C      
  4/29 L25 LC-3 timer interrupts, multiprogramming Patt and Patel: 10; Maccabe: 11.3, 12.2, 12.3      
  4/30 D14 Control logic and microcode examples       HW #9
15 5/4 L19 Wrap-up and quiz review        
  5/6 Q3 Quiz #3        
  5/7 D15 Quiz and final exam review        
EX May 13-16, 18-19 EX Final exam - Day and time TBD        

Last modified: 01/21/10 Don Fussell, fussell@cs.utexas.edu