| Week 0: |
| Fri |
Aug |
28 |
Introduction |
Syllabus |
Read Chapter 1 |
| Week 1: |
| Mon |
Aug |
31 |
Memory Model, Binary, Hex |
2.1 |
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| Tues |
Sept |
1 |
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| Wed |
Sept |
2 |
Quiz; Byte Ordering, Fixed word conventions: MSB/LSB etc. |
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| Fri |
Sept |
4 |
Booleans and Bit Operations (bool.c); Integer Representations; Conversions |
2.2 |
Datalab Out (datalab-handout.tar)
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| Week 2: |
| Mon |
Sept |
7 |
Two's Complement (hexdec.cpp) |
2.2-2.3 |
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| Tues |
Sept |
8 |
HWLab1: Breadboard/Arduino Intro |
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| Wed |
Sept |
9 |
Quiz; Conversions, Truncation/Sign Extension, View from C/C++ |
2.3 |
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| Fri |
Sept |
11 |
Integer Arithmetic |
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Lab2 Prelab Out |
| Sun |
Sept |
13 |
6-8 p.m.: Recitation / Datalab Strategy / Open Lab |
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Optional Session |
| Week 3: |
| Mon |
Sept |
14 |
Program Encodings, Data Formats |
3.1-3.3 |
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| Tues |
Sept |
15 |
HWLab2: Combinational Building Blocks IC Docs; MuxValidate.cpp |
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Lab2 Prelab Due |
| Wed |
Sept |
16 |
Assembly Language Intro |
3.4 |
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| Fri |
Sept |
18 |
Operands; Movement; classexercise1.c, GDB |
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Datalab Due by classtime; Lab3 Prelab Out |
| Week 4: |
| Mon |
Sept |
21 |
Operands and movl; Stack Use Intro |
3.5 |
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| Tues |
Sept |
22 |
HWLab3: Combinational Logic Simplification; pot2binary.cpp |
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| Wed |
Sept |
23 |
Continue Stack Use; Arithmetic and Logic instructions |
3.5 |
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| Fri |
Sept |
25 |
Introduction to Control; Condition Codes; Start Basic Branching (class4.c) |
3.6 thru 3.6.4 |
NC1: Demo of Arith/Logic Instructions through class2.c, class3.s |
| Week 5: |
| Mon |
Sept |
28 |
Control: Loops |
3.6.5 - 3.6.6 |
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| Tues |
Sept |
29 |
HWLab4: Sensors and Actuators |
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| Wed |
Sept |
30 |
while loop translation cont'd; review |
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ALUlibrary Project and ALUlibrary.circ template; bomblab Out |
| Fri |
Oct |
2 |
Midterm 1 (Thursday eve) |
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| Week 6: |
| Mon |
Oct |
5 |
Switch statements; other loops |
3.6.7, 3.8 |
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| Tues |
Oct |
6 |
HWLab5: More Sensors and Servo Motor Actuator |
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| Wed |
Oct |
7 |
Data structures; Stack Discipline |
3.7, 3.9 |
IA32-V1, IA32-V2a (A-M), IA32-V2b (N-Z) |
| Fri |
Oct |
9 |
Finish stack convention; forloop.c, forloop.dis |
3.7, 3.9 |
Lab6 Prelab Out | ,
| Week 7: |
| Mon |
Oct |
12 |
Buffer Overflow |
3.12 |
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| Tues |
Oct |
13 |
Lab6: Sequential Circuit and FSM |
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| Wed |
Oct |
14 |
Y86 Instruction Set |
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bomblab Due; buflab Out |
| Fri |
Oct |
16 |
No class: Fall Study Break |
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| Week 8: |
| Mon |
Oct |
19 |
Class Cancelled |
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| Tues |
Oct |
20 |
HWLab7: Ant Brain - ant.tar |
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| Wed |
Oct |
21 |
Y86 Instruction Set Architecture and Encoding |
4.1 |
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| Fri |
Oct |
23 |
Y86 CPU Implementation I |
4.3 |
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| Week 9: |
| Mon |
Oct |
26 |
Y86 CPU Implementation II - Stage definitions and Instruction RTL |
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buflab Due |
| Tues |
Oct |
27 |
HWLab7 Part II: Ant Brain Continued |
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| Wed |
Oct |
28 |
Y86 SEQ Datapath in Logisim |
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Antbrain Due (Hand in Lab Report in class and email ant.circ); Y86 ALU/Datapath Out |
| Fri |
Oct |
30 |
Y86 SEQ Wrapup and Review for Midterm |
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SEQ Instruction Flow for call and pop; Y86 ALU Datapath Out (cpulab-f15.tar) |
| Week 10: |
| Mon |
Nov |
2 |
Midterm 2 (really Sunday at 7pm, and no class on Monday) |
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| Tues |
Nov |
3 |
Interrupts and Stepper Motor Controller: StepperMotor.zip |
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| Wed |
Nov |
4 |
Exceptional Control Flow I: Concepts to Processes |
8.1, 8.2 |
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| Fri |
Nov |
6 |
Exceptional Control Flow II: Fork, Exec, Process Control (slides) |
8.3, 8.4 |
Shell Lab Out, shlab-handout.tar; Y86 ALU/Datapath Due at midnight on Sunday |
| Week 11: |
| Mon |
Nov |
9 |
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8.5 |
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| Tues |
Nov |
10 |
Y86 Control - cpulab-f15.tar |
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| Wed |
Nov |
11 |
Exceptional Control Flow III: Signals (slides) |
8.5 |
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| Fri |
Nov |
13 |
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6.4 |
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| Week 12: |
| Mon |
Nov |
16 |
Memory Hierarchy I: Concepts to Caches |
Light Read 6.1; 6.2 and 6.3 in detail |
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| Tues |
Nov |
17 |
Final Project: Exploration |
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CPU Hardware Lab Report due by classtime |
| Wed |
Nov |
18 |
Memory Hierarchy II: Caches (slides) |
6.4 |
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| Fri |
Nov |
20 |
Memory Hierarchy II: Caches |
6.5 |
Shell Lab Due |
| Thanksgiving Break: Nov 21-29 |
| Week 13: |
| Mon |
Nov |
30 |
Floating Point Representation |
2.4 |
Cachelab Out (cachelab-handout.tar) |
| Tues |
Dec |
1 |
Final Project Work |
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| Wed |
Dec |
2 |
Floating Point Conclusion (slides) |
4.4 |
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| Fri |
Dec |
4 |
Pipelining Detail I |
4.5 |
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| Week 14: |
| Mon |
Dec |
7 |
Pipelining Detail II (slides) |
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Cache Lab Due |
| Tues |
Dec |
8 |
HW Lab Final Project Completion |
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(Demo by 5pm Wednesday) |
| Wed |
Dec |
9 |
Midterm 3 |
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| Fri |
Dec |
11 |
No class rsum |
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Take Home Final Distributed |
| Takehome Final Exam - Due by normal exam time by email |
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