CS 2734 Computer Organization II -- Spring 2002
Lectures, Exams, and Laboratories

Lectures, Exams, and Laboratories, Spring 2002
Week Dates Lecture Topics Lab Assignment Exams / Quizzes
1 Jan 14, 16, 18 Introduction, overview.
Binary numbers, 2's complement.		 1. Intro. to
    Sun Lab		  
2 Jan 23, 25
(Jan 21: MLK)		 Floating point, intro to assembly
language.		 2. Binary
    Arithmetic		  
3 Jan 28, 30, Feb 1 Loops and arrays in MIPS.  3. Floating Point
    Numbers		 Quiz: Binary
  Numbers
4 Feb 4, 6, 8 More loops, automatic variables. 4. Simple Array Quiz: Floating
  Point Numbers
5 Feb 11, 13, 15 Functions, parameters.
Static and auto storage.		 5. Loops and
    Arrays		 Quiz: Loops
6 Feb 18, 20, 22 Recursive functions,
MIPS machine language.		 6. Functions,
    auto storage		 Quiz: Arrays
7 Feb 25, 27, Mar 1 Gates from CMOS trans.,
review of combinational logic.		 7. Recursive
    Functions		 Exam 1
(Review )
8 Mar 4, 6, 8 MIPS instruction cycle,
single-cycle implementation.		   NO QUIZ
Spring Break, Mar 11-15
9 Mar 18, 20, 23
(Mar 22: Last drop)		 Multi-cycle implementation. 8. Hand Assembly
   of MIPS Code		 NO QUIZ
10 Mar 25, 27, 29 Exception handling. 9. Parsing MIPS
Instructions		 Quiz:
  Single-cycle
11 Apr 1, 3, 5 Pipelined implementation. 10. Exception
    Handling		 Quiz:
  Multi-cycle
12 Apr 8, 10, 12 Caching. Continue Lab 10 Exam 2
(Review)
13 Apr 15, 17, 19 Information theory: Source coding,
channel coding, secrecy coding		 Start work on Lab 11 NO QUIZ
14 Apr 22, 24, 26
(Apr 26: B of F)		 Data busses.   POSSIBLE QUIZ
15 Apr 29, May 1
(May 2, 3: Study)		 Extra topics. 11. Hamming
    codes		 Quiz:
  Something
  May 8, 1:30 pm     Final (review )

Notes:

  1. Hour exams (in red) are on Fridays, Mar 1 for Exam 1 and April 12 for Exam 2. The final exam is on Wednesday, May 8, 1:30-4:15 pm.

  2. Laboratories (in blue) are on Mondays and Wednesdays. In general, you should prepare for the lab ahead of time and finish it by Wednesday of the assigned week. If the Lab TA approves, you may put finishing touches on a lab during the next Monday lab period.

  3. Laboratory Quizzes (in green) are usually on Mondays. On each Monday when there is a lab quiz (starting on Jan 28), the quiz will be given in the lab classroom, HSS 3.04.24, starting at 12:40 pm. (In this way, you can take the quiz and then continue with the lecture session in the same room.)

Revision date: 2002-01-07. (Please use ISO 8601, the International Standard Date and Time Notation.)