CS/ECE 354 Machine Organization and Programming Fall 2008 Section 1 Instructor Mark D. Hill TAs Mark Liu & Somayeh Sardashti

Lecture

Time: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays
Place: 1240 Computer Science & Statistics (new room effective Mon Sep 8)

Approximate Schedule

All students are responsible for the material under the headings of Writings and Lecture Notes and On Your Own. The difference between these 2 categorizations is that the material under the heading of On Your Own will not be covered in class.

Weeks	Topics	Writings and Lecture Notes	On Your Own	Beyond 354	Due Dates
prereq material			number systems
9/3-5	class policies, how computers work	the basics of computer operation
9/8-12	C programming	introduction, I/O, on pointers, on functions and memory allocation	on argv and argc: questions, questions with answers
9/15-19	C programming	pointers, arrays, etc.	integer representations: questions, questions with answers character representation: questions, questions with answers	floating point representation	finish the optional Assignment 0 by Monday
9/22-26	finish C programming, integer arithmetic and logical operations	integer arithmetic, logical, and shift operations		two's complement multiplication	Assignment 1 due Friday???: C program
9/29-10/3	Assembly language: with MIPS R2000 examples	motivation for registers, basics of MAL (MIPS assembly language), MIPS instructions, code implementation examples	need-to-know aspects of MAL
10/6-10	MIPS assembly language	on addressing modes	addressibility: questions, questions with answers		Exam 1 MONDAY in lecture (covers thru arithmetic and logical operations) Assignment 2 due Friday???: super simple MAL program
10/13-17	data structures	arrays, stacks, and queues	array code implementation: questions, questions with answers
10/20-24	functions	function implementation		MIPS conventions	Assignment 3 due Friday???: MAL program using arrays
10/27-31	finish material on functions, the assembly process	the assembly process		linking and loading
11/3-7	finish material on the assembly process on I/O	input and output, more on I/O and DMA			Assignment 4 due Monday???: MAL program implementing functions
11/10-14	finish material on I/O				Exam 2 FRIDAY in lecture (covers thru function implementation)
11/17-21	exception handling	interrupts, an incomplete kernel, and a complete, non-reentrant kernel.	Just for fun, read The Story of Mel.		Assignment 5 due Wednesday???: hand assembly
11/24-28	finish exception handling				No class Fri Nov 28
12/1-5	performance	on perfomance issues		pipelining	Assignment 6 due Friday???: MAL program using interrupts
12/8-12	extra topics	floating point appreciation, Intel x86 appreciation
Monday, Dec 15 2:45pm					Exam 3 during Summary Activity period (Covers the assembly process, I/O, interrupts, performance, and end-of-semester topics.) Location: 113 Psychology