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CDA3100 - Computer Organization I

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[Week 13] [Week 14] [Week 15] [Week 16]

Assignment code

E - Exercise (do not need to turn in).
H - Homework (need to turn in hardcopy).
P - Programming projects.
M - Midterm exam.
Q - Assessment and feedback quiz.

Week 1

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Assignments
No Recitation
8/26 - Lecture	Class Organization General Introduction	Organizational Issues Introduction
8/28 - Lecture	Introduction (Contnued) Number Representations	Number Representations - I	2.4		H: Assignment #1 (Due 09/13/2019) C program for Bit Fields (C++ version)
8/30 - Lecture	Number Representations (continued)	Number Representations - II	2.4, 3.5

Week 2

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Assignments
Recitations	Overview of the computing environment at the Computer Science Department Number representations Hints for Homework #1 Note: No recitation on Monday, Sept. 2 and please attend one of the other recitations if your session is on Monday.	Week 2 Recitation Slides
9/2 - No class (Labor Day)
9/4 - Lecture	MIPS Instructions	Week02-5.ppt	2.1-2.3, 2.5
9/6 - Lecture	MIPS Instructions	Week03-3.ppt

Week 3

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Assignments
Recitations	QtSPIM - MIPS Simulator MIPS Assembly	Week03 Recitation
9/9 - Lecture	MIPS Instructions (Continued)		2.5 - 2.6		H: Assignment #2 (Due 9/27/2019)
9/11 - Lecture	MIPS Instructions (Continued)	Week03-5.ppt	2.7-2.9
9/13 - Lecture	MIPS Calling Convention	week04-1.ppt	2.8, A.6

Week 4

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Assignments
Recitations	Assembly Programming	week04 recitation
9/16 - Lecture	MIPS Calling Convention (Continued)	Week04-1.ppt (Same as previous)	2.9, 2.10	tak_c.c tak.s
9/18 - Lecture	Assembly Programming (MIPS)	Week04-1.ppt (Continued; slides same as last time)	2.9 and 2.10	Complete leaf_example program Complete fact program
9/20 - Lecture	MIPS Assembly Programming	Week04-1.ppt (Continued; slides same as last time)	2.9 and 2.10	Complete strcpy program	H: Assignment #3 (Due 10/14/2019) test_inthist.s test_mips_palindrome.s test_set.s test_my_fib.s

Week 5

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Assignments
Recitations	Assembly Programming (Continued)	Week05-rect.pptx	A.8, A.9, A.10
9/23 - Lecture	MIPS Assembly Programming (Continued)	Week05-1.ppt	2.12-2.14, A.2-A.4, A.9
9/25 - Lecture	MIPS Assembly Programming (Continued) Instruction Set Styles	Week05-3.ppt	1.6, 1.7, 2.21		H: Assignment #4 (Due 11/4/2019) A reference C program for the first problem: base64-decimal-hw4.c MIPS program you can use: test_histogram.s Test images: seminoles_tiny.bin (43 rows x 21 columns) (seminoles_tiny_bin_hist.txt (Expected output)) seminoles.bin (349 rows x 170 columns) (seminoles_bin_hist.txt (Expected output)) lena.bin (256 rows x 256 columns) (lena_bin_hist.txt (Expected output)) You can test your functions using test_prob2.s (test_prob2_output.txt (Expected output))
9/27 - Lecture	Instruction Set Styles (Continued) Single instruction architectures	week05-5.ppt

Week 6

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Assignments
Recitations	Questions and answers for MIPS Assembly Programming	Week06-rect.pptx
9/30 - Lecture	IA-32 MMX and SSE Instructions Inline Assembly	Week06-3.ppt	2.17
10/2 - Lecture	IA-32 MMX and SSE Instructions Inline Assembly	Week06-5.ppt	2.17
10/4 - Lecture	Arithmetic Operations	Week07-3.ppt	3.2 - 3.4 A.7

Week 7

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Assignments
Recitations	Go over Homework #4 MIPS Assembly Questions and Answers	Week07 Recitation Slides
10/7 - Lecture	Arithmetic Operations (Continued)			sum-overflow.s addition_overflow_mips.s	H: Assignment #5 (rop_examples.c, instruction_strings_cda3100.c) (Due 10/28/2019)
10/9 - Lecture	Floating point operations	Week07-5.ppt	3.5
10/11 - Lecture	Floating point operations (Cont.)	Week07-5.ppt	3.5

Week 8

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Assignments
Recitations	Midterm Exam Review
10/14 - Lecture	Midterm Exam Review	Week08-1.ppt Midterm Exam Review	Chapters 1-3 and Appendix A (see slides for sections included)	Study Guide for the Midterm Exam
10/16 - Lecture	Midterm Exam Review Digital Logic	Week08-1.ppt (Same as last time) Week09-1.ppt	Chapters 1-3 and Appendix A (see slides for sections included)
10/18 - Lecture	Midterm Exam	Chapters 1-3 and Appendix A

Week 9

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Assignments
Recitations	Arithmetic Operations	Week9 Recitation Slides
10/21 - Lecture	Midterm Exam Summary
10/23 - Lecture	Digital Logic (Continued)	Week09-1.ppt (Same as last time)
10/25 - No Class	Homecoming

Week 10

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Assignments
Recitations	Digital Logic Review	Week11 Recitation Slides
10/28 - Lecture	Digital Logic (Continued) Basic Arithmetic Logic Unit	(Same as last time)	B.3, B.5		H: Assignment #6 (Due 11/13/209)
10/30 - Lecture	Basic Arithmetic Logic Unit (Continued)	(Same as last time)	B.5
11/1 - Lecture	Carry Lookahead Adders	Week11-3.ppt	B.6

Week 11

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Assignments
Recitations	ALU	Week11 Recitation Slides
11/4 - Lecture	Combinational Logic Review Memory Elements	Week12-1.ppt	B.7 and B.8
11/6 - Lecture	Memory Elements (Continued)	Week12-1.ppt	B.7 and B.8		H: Assignment #7 (Due 11/25/2019)
11/8 Lecture	SRAMS and DRAMS Finite State Machine	Week12-1.ppt Week13-1.ppt	B.9, B.10

Week 12

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Assignments
Recitations	Sequential Logic	Week12 Recitation Slides
11/11	Finite State Machines (Continued)	Same as last Friday
11/13	Finite State Machines (Continued)	Same as last Friday	B.10
11/15	Data Path	Week14-1.ppt	4.1, 4.2, 4.3

Week 13

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Assignments
Recitations	Datapath	Week13-rect.pptx
11/18 - Lecture	Datapath (Continued) Control	Same as last time	4.3, 4.4
11/20 - Lecture	Control (Continued) Introduction to Verilog	Week14-1.ppt Week14-5-Verilog.ppt	4.3, 4.4		H: Assignment #8 (Due 12/4/2019)
11/22 - Lecture	No Class	Instructor at CAE Symposium	4.1, 4.2, 4.3

Week 14

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Assignments
Recitations	Datapath and Control	Week14-rect.pptx
11/25 - Lecture	Performance (review) and Possible Improvements	Week15-1.ppt	4.5		H: Note: The entire assignment 9 is extra credit. Assignment #9 (Due 5:00pm, 12/13/2019) Simulator can be downloaded from modelsim-starter
11/27 - No class	Thanksgiving
11/29 - No class	Thanksgiving

Week 15

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Assignments
Recitations	Datapath and Control Questions and Answers for the final exam	Week15-rect.pptx
12/2 - Lecture	Final Exam Review	Week15-3.ppt		Final Exam Study Guide
12/4 - Lecture	Final Exam Review (Continued)	Same as last time
12/6	Questions and Answers for the final exam Advanced Topics Field Programming Gate Arrays Advanced Topics Graphics Processing Units Advanced Topics Cyber-Physical Systems Future trends Summary Note: Will not be on the final exam	Week16-1.ppt Week16-5.ppt	B.12, 6.6

Final Exam Week

Date	Topics	Time
12/10/2019	Accumulative final exam (About 65% are after the mid-term exam)	Tuesday, 05:30PM - 07:30PM

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