Lecture Schedule (Fall 2008)
 
 
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        Date              Lecture (M)                        Lab (Tu)

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    Sep  3 (W)               Syllabus, Quiz, Number Systems (A)      

         5 (F)               Digital Logic (B)

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         8 (M)                                                        No lab

        10 (W)                               

        12 (F)               7-segment LED display, Gray code     

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        15 (M/T)             Quiz-1,  LED display, Gray code          1. Timing signal

        17 (W)               Computer Evolution (2)                      Generator                    

        19 (F)               Computer function and structure (3)                                                     

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        22 (M/T)                                                      2. Program counter                          

        24 (W)               Cache memory (4)                            Arithmetic Unit

        26 (F)               

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        29 (M/T)             Internal Memory (5)                      3. MAR, Register A,

    Oct  1 (W)                                                           Register B

         3 (F)               External Memory (6)         

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         6 (M/T)                                                      4. RAM and Instruction  

         8 (W)               I/O (7)                                     Decoder

        10 (F)                       

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        13 (M/T)                    Assembly language                 5. Control Signal

        15 (W)                      Assembly language                    Generator

        17 (F)                      Assembly language

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        20 (M/T)                    Assembly language                  Demonstration

        22 (W)               

        24 (F)               Midterm (15%)                              

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        27 (M/T)             Computer Arithmetic (9)                   Program-1

        29 (W)         

        31 (F)   

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    Nov  3 (M/T)             Instruction Sets (10)                     Program-2

         5 (W)                  

         7 (F)              

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        10 (M/T)                  Assembly language (mul)              Program-3

        12 (W)                    Assembly language (div)   

        14 (F)                    Assembly language      

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        17 (M/T)             Addressing (11.1)                         Program-4                   

        19 (W)               Processor (12)                                        

        21 (F)               Quiz-2 (Chapters 9 – 12)                        

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        24 (M/T)                                                       Program-5                                                        

        26 (W)             

        28 (F)                   No class (Thanksgiving)              

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    Dec  1 (M/T)             Control Unit (16), Macro                  Program-6 

         3 (W)               Control Unit (16)                  

         5 (F)               RISC (13)

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         8 (M/T)             Superscalar (14)                                                                                                             

        10 (W)               Parallel Processing (18)    

        12 (F)               Review and Evaluation       

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    Dec 16 (T)  4:00 – 5:50  FINAL (25%)            

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