CSCE 212: Introduction to Computer Architecture

Meeting Times: Tuesday, Thursday 11:00 - 12:15

Location: Swearingen 2A31

Instructor: Dr. Jason D. Bakos

Announcements

9/29 -- Someone found another mistake on the answers sheet, on question C2.3. The branches there should be BGEZ. Here's the PDF with all three corrected answers. [answers]

9/4 -- The TA's office hours are TTH 2:00-3:00.

Downloads

Course syllabus: [pdf]

Links

SPIM: MIPS simulator [html]

SPIM: Quick References [html]

MIPSter! A hyper-nifty MIPS code editor! [html]

Companion site for the textbook [html]

Blackboard [html]

CSE Secure Site (Dropbox) [html]

Course Schedule

Date	Topic	Assignment	Downloads
Thurs - 8/21/08	Introduction	Read Chapter 1	[slides]
Tues - 8/26/08	Chapter 2: MIPS ISA	Exercises 1.46-1.48, 1.50-1.54, due 9/2 Read Sections 2.1-2.9, 2.16	[slides]
Thurs - 8/28/08	Chapter 2: MIPS ISA	none	none
Tues - 9/2/08	Chapter 2: MIPS ISA	Exercises 2.2-2.4, 2.6, 2.29-2.32, 2.37, due 9/9	none
Thurs - 9/4/08	Chapter 2: MIPS ISA	none	none
Tues - 9/9/08	Chapter 2: MIPS ISA	Project 1, due 9/18	[project]
Thurs - 9/11/08	Chapter 2: MIPS ISA	none	[example code]
Tues - 9/16/08	Chapter 3: Computer Arithmetic	Read Sections 3.1-3.7	[slides]
Thurs - 9/18/08	Chapter 3: Computer Arithmetic	Exercises 3.3, 3.5, 3.10, 3.12, 3.30, 3.40, 3.41, 3.44, 3.46, due 9/30	none
Tues - 9/23/08	Chapter 3: Computer Arithmetic	none	[example exam questions]
Thurs - 9/25/08	Chapter 3: Computer Arithmetic	none	[example exam answers]
Tues - 9/30/08	Exam 1	none	none
Thurs - 10/2/08	Discuss exam, Chapter 4: Performance	Read Chapter 4 Project 2, due 10/14	[slides] [project]
Tues - 10/7/08	Chapter 4: Performance	none	none
Thurs - 10/9/08	Fall break, no class	none	none
Tues - 10/14/08	Chapter 5: Datapath and Control	Read Sections 5.1-5.6 Chapter 4 exercises 4.2, 4.3, 4.6-4.12, 4.17, 4.18, 4.45, 4.46, due 10/21	[slides]
Thurs - 10/16/08	Chapter 5: Datapath and Control	none	none
Tues - 10/21/08	Chapter 5: Datapath and Control	Project 3, due 10/28	[project]
Thurs - 10/23/08	Chapter 5: Datapath and Control	Exercises 5.1, 5.8-5.10 (explain), 5.11, 5.13, 5.14, 5.26-5.31, 5.35, 5.43, due 10/30	none
Tues - 10/28/08	Chapter 6: Pipelining	none	[slides]
Thurs - 10/30/08	Chapter 6: Pipelining	Exercises 6.1-6.4, 6.17-6.19, 6.21-6.22, 6.33, 6.35, 6.47, 6.50, due 11/13	none
Tues - 11/4/08	No class (election day)	none	none
Thurs - 11/6/08	Chapter 6: Pipelining	Extra credit project, due 12/4	[project]
Tues - 11/11/08	Chapter 6: Pipelining	none	[example exam questions] [example exam answers]
Thurs - 11/13/08	Chapter 7: Memory Hierarchy	Read Sections 7.1-7.5, exercises 7.1, 7.5, 7.9, 7.10, 7.14, 7.20, 7.28, 7.29, 7.45, due 11/25	[slides]
Tues - 11/18/08	NO CLASS (travel day)	none	none
Thurs - 11/20/08	Exam 2	none	none
Tues - 11/25/08	Discuss Exam 2	none	none
Thurs - 11/27/08	NO CLASS (Thanksgiving)	none	none
Tues - 12/2/08	Chapter 7: Memory Hierarchy	none	[example exam questions]
Thurs - 12/4/08	Chapter 8: Storage and Networks	none	[slides]
Fri - 12/12/08	Final exam, 9:00am	none	none

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