Progress

This page lists the material and assignments for each week in the semester. We update the contents on at least a weekly basis. For the past weeks, it is a record of what we have done. For the current week, watch out for updates and changes.

Week 1 : 6/17-6/23
Reading	Chapter 1 (pp 1-16); Chapter 2 (pp 21-42); Chapter 11 (pp. 289-304); Chapter 12 (pp. 307-337); Chapter 13 (pp. 344-366)
	Number Conversions
	Number Systems and Radix Conversion
Lectures	Chapter 1: Welcome Aboard
	Chapter 11: Programming in C
	Chapter 2: Bits; Data Types; and Operations
	Chapter 12: Variables and Operators
	Chapter 13: C Control Structures
Assignments	P1: Number Conversion (due 6/20)
	P2: Floating Point Math (due 6/23)
Recitations	R0: Hello World
	R1: Number Crunching
	Quiz 1 - Number representation and Intro to C / R2: C Programming
	R3: Bit Fields in C
Week 2 : 6/24-6/30
Reading	Chapter 14 (pp 378-398); Chapter 16 (pp 427-451); Chapter 19 (pp 497-516); Chapter 18 (pp. 481-493); Chapter 17 (pp. 457-473)
Lectures	Chapter 15 – Debugging
	Chapter 16 – Pointers and Arrays
	Chapter 19 – Data Structures
	Chapter 18 – C Input/Output
	Chapter 17 – C Recursion
	ExtraCMaterial
Assignments	P3 Stack Trace: (due 6/27)
	P4A Symbol Table part A: (due 6/30)
Recitations	Stack Dump
	Quiz 2 - Pointers and Arrays
	R4: C Structures
	R4B: Starting P4A
Exams	Midterm 1 Review
Week 3 : 7/1-7/7
Reading	Chapter 4; Chapter 5 (pp 123-145); Chapter 7 (pp 177-190)
Lectures	Midterm 1 Review
	Chapter 4 - Von Neumann Architecture
	Chapter 5 - LC-3 Architecture
	Chapter 6 - LC-3 Programming
Assignments	P4B Symbol Table: (due 7/5)
	P5 Some Assembly Required: (due 7/9)
Recitations	R5: Debug Valgrind
	R5.1 Java and C
	Midterm Exam
	R6: LC-3 Programming Introduction
Exams	Midterm 1 Review
	Midterm Exam Wednesday 7/3 in recitation
Week 4 : 7/8-7/14
Reading	Chapter 4 (pp 97-111); Chapter 6 (pp 155-171); Chapter 9 (pp 219-240)
	Chapter 10 (pp. 251-258); Chapter 14 (pp. 379-398); Chapter 8 (pp. 199-214)
Lectures	Chapter 6 - LC-3 Programming
	Chapter 7 - LC-3 Assembly Code
	Chapter 9 - TRAP Routines and Subroutines
	LC3 Stack
Assignments	P6A: LC-3 String Library - Part A (due July 12)
	P6B: LC-3 String Library - Part B (due July 15)
Recitations	R6: LC-3 Programming Introduction
	R7: More LC-3 Programming
	Quiz 3 - LC3
	R8: The Stack
	IntAdd.asm recitation example
Week 5 : 7/15-7/21
Reading	Chapter 10 (pp. 251-258); Chapter 14 (pp. 379-398); Chapter 8 (pp. 199-214)
Lectures	Chapter 10 - Stack
	LC3 Instruction Review
	Technology Trends
	Memory Hierarchy
	Midterm 2 Review
Assignments	P7: The LC3 Stack (due July 21)
Recitations	R9: I/O
	P7 help
	Quiz 4 - LC3 / LC3 Macros
	LC3 OS Extension / Buffer Overflow
Week 6 : 7/22-7/28
Exams	Midterm Exam 2 Monday 7/22 in recitation
Reading	Chapter 3
Lectures	Lecture 22: Logic Circuits
	Lecture 23: Storage Elements & Sequential Circuits
Assignments	H1: Combinational Logic and Transistors (due 7/28)
Recitations	Midterm Exam 2 Monday 7/22 in recitation
	R10: Introduction to Logisim
	R11: Decrementer
	Q5 / Object Oriented C
Week 7 : 7/29-8/4
Reading	Appendix C
Lectures	Transistors and State Machines
	Microarchitecture and Register Transfer Notation
	Memory Hierarchy
	Caches
Assignments	H2: State Machines (due 8/1)
Recitations	R12: Designing Finite State Machines
	R13: Implementing A Simple State Machine
	R14: eLC-3 (due 8/8)
	Intro to P8 (due 8/8)
Exams	Exam 2 makeup due 8/5
Week 8 : 8/5-8/11
Lectures	Caches
	Pipelining
	Final Exam Review
Assignments	P8: LC-3 Simulator Due 8/9
Recitations	R14 Checkin: eLC-3 Due 8/9
Exams	Final Exam 8/8 in recitation Review Sheet