CS 310H Spring 2010 Schedule

CS310H Spring 2010 Schedule, Handouts, and Reading

This schedule is subject to revision during the course of the semester.


Week	Date	Lec #	Topic	Reading BEFORE this date	Out	In (Due)
1	1/20	L1	Course introduction, computer system abstractions
	1/21	D1	Meet your TA, unix, binary/hex numbers		HW #1
	1/22	L2	Digital representations, basic electronics	P&P 1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2
2	1/25	L3	Transistors, transistor circuits	P&P: 3.1-3.2.5
	1/27	L4	Boolean algebra, logic design	P&P: 3.3
	1/28	D2	Digital representations, switch logic		HW #2
	1/29	L5	Combinational logic circuits
3	2/1	L6	Multiplexors, encoders/decoders
	2/3	L7	Storage, latches, flip-flops
	2/4	D3	Multiplexors, decoders		HW #3	HW #1
	2/5	L8	DRAM, SRAM, registers, memory
4	2/8	L9	Clocks and synchronous circuits
	2/10	L10	State machines and sequential circuits
	2/11	D4	State elements, sequential circuits		HW #4	HW #2
	2/12	L11	Intro to LC-3 datapath
5	2/15	L12	Numerical representations	P&P: Chapter 2
	2/17	L13	Logical operations, floating-point encodings
	2/18	D5	State machines, two's complement, floating point		HW #5	HW #3
	2/19	L14	Floating point operations, double precision
6	2/22	L15	Introduction to von Neumann computers	P&P Chapter 4
	2/24	L16	LC-3 ISA overview	P&P Chapter 5.1-5.3
	2/25	D6	LC3 ISA		HW #6 HW #6 code	HW #4
	2/26	L17	LC-3 Memory organization, load/store instructions	P&P 5.4-5.5
7	3/1	L18	Instruction execution and RTL Example code	P&P 5.5, P&P Chapter 6
	3/3	L19	TRAP instruction, register transfer level (RTL)
	3/4	D7	More RTL examples		HW #7 HW #7 code	HW #5
	3/5	L20	Assemblers	P&P Chapter 7
8	3/8	L21	Assemblers, linking, loading	P&P Chapter 7
	3/10	L22	Programming, I/O	P&P Chapter 8
	3/11	D8	Details on Assembly, linking, loading			HW #6
	3/12	L23	I/O programming	P&P Chapter 8
	3/15		Spring Break
	3/17		Spring Break
	3/18		Spring Break
	3/19		Spring Break
9	3/22	L24	Quiz Review
	3/24	Q1	Quiz #1
	3/25	D9	Go over quiz		HW #8
	3/26	L25	Traps, subroutines, and linkage I	P&P Chapters 9 and 10
10	3/29	L26	Stacks and linkage	P&P: Chapter 10
	3/31	L27	Procedures and activation records
	4/1	D10	Stack management
	4/2	L28	Intro to C	P&P: Chapter 11
11	4/5	L29	C Variables and Operators	P&P: Chapter 12
	4/7	L30	C Storage and Linkage	P&P, Skim Chapter 13, Read Chapter 14
	4/8	D11	Practice with data types, activation records		HW #8 HW #8 code	HW #7
	4/9	L31	C Pointers I	P&P: Skim Chapters 15,17,18 Read Chapters 16,19
12	4/12	L32	Exam review
	4/14	L33	C Pointers II	P&P: Skim Chapters 15,17,18 Read Chapters 16,19
	4/15	D12	C Pointers, parameter passing		HW #9 HW #9 code
	4/16	L34	C Dynamic Variables, malloc, free	P&P: Skim Chapters 15,17,18 Read Chapters 16,19
13	4/19	L35	C Heap Management	P&P: Skim Chapters 15,17,18 Read Chapters 16,19
	4/21	L36	LC-3 Control Structure	P&P: Appendix C
	4/22	D13	Interrupts			HW #8
	4/23	L37	Microprogramming the LC-3	P&P: Appendix C
14	4/26	L38	Microinstruction sequencing in the LC-3	P&P: Appendix C
	4/28	L39	Caches, virtual memory
	4/29	D14	Microprogramming and Interrupts			HW #9
	4/30	L40	Interrupt and exception handling on the LC-3	P&P: Appendix C
15	5/3	L41	Quiz Review	Microprogramming question from example quiz
	5/5	Q2	Quiz #2
	5/6	D15	Course material review
	5/7	L42	Topics in computer architecture
17	5/17	EX	Final Exam --- 9:00am-12:00pm --- UTC 1.130

Last modified: 05/06/10 Don Fussell, fussell@cs.utexas.edu