CPS 104: Computer Organization and Programming

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Syllabus (Fall 1999)

Professor: Dietolf Ramm

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Lecture Slides

• Slide set #1 8/30/99, Introduction, Overview, Postscript   Acrobat
• Slide set #2 9/1/99, Data Representation, Postscript   Acrobat
• Slide set #3 9/3/99, Memory, Bit Level Operations, Postscript   Acrobat
• Slide set #4 9/8/99, Instruction Set Architecture, Postscript   Acrobat
• Slide set #5 9/10/99, MIPS ISA, Postscript   Acrobat
• Slide set #6 9/15/99, MIPS Assembler, Postscript   Acrobat
• Slide set #7 9/17/99, MIPS Assembler, Linkage Conventions, Postscript   Acrobat
• Slide set #8 9/22/99, MIPS Assembler, Linkage Conventions, Postscript   Acrobat
• Slide set #9 9/24/99, Boolean Algebra & Gates, Postscript   Acrobat
• Slide set #10 9/27/99, Memory Elements, Registers , Postscript   Acrobat
• Slide set #12 10/15/99, Registers, Multiply & Divide, Postscript   Acrobat
• Slide set #13 10/18/99, Single Cycle Datapath, Postscript   Acrobat
• Slide set #15 10/22/99, Single Cycle Datapath Control, Postscript   Acrobat
• Slide set #16 10/25/99, Memory Systems, Postscript   Acrobat
• Slide set #17 10/27/99, Memory Cache, Postscript   Acrobat
• Slide set #18 11/1/99, Memory Cache, Postscript   Acrobat
• Slide set #20 11/10/99, Virtual Memory, Postscript   Acrobat
• Slide set #21 11/15/99, Virtual Memory, I/O, Postscript   Acrobat
• Slide set #22 11/17/99, I/O, Postscript   Acrobat
• Slide set #23 11/22/99, I/O, Postscript   Acrobat
• Slide set #24 11/24/99, Pipelined Processor, Postscript   Acrobat
• Lecture #ASM1 12/1/99, Assembly Language and Assemblers, html
• Lecture #ASM1 12/3/99, Assemblers and Loaders, html
• Slide set #25 12/5/99, Superscalars and Multiprocessors, Postscript   Acrobat
  Note: There are some breaks in the slide set sequence numbers since there was considerable overlap in a few of the slide sets.

Assignments and Supplementary Information

• Homework #1, due 9/10/99
• Homework #2, due 9/24/99
• Homework #3, due 10/1/99
• Homework #4, due 10/13/99
• Homework #5, due 10/27/99
  • "Binary" Test File
  • Program illustrating use of "bit-fields" and "unions"
• Homework #6, due 11/10/99
  • torture.s
• Homework #7, due 11/19/99
  • Model outputs
• Homework #8, due 12/6/99
• Extra Credit Homework #X, due 12/6/99

Sample/Practice Test(s)

Note: There was only one midterm in previous years, we are having two. Therefore, these were given later in the semester and included more material:
• Midterm (Spring 99) Postscript   Acrobat
• Midterm (older) Postscript   Acrobat
  Old, old stuff:
• Test #1 (to be administered 9/27/95): ASCII version.
• Test #2 (to be administered 11/1/95): ASCII version.
• Test #3 (Final Exam) (to be administered 12/15/95, 9:00am): ASCII version.

Grades

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  Name: Office: Phone:	Instructor Dietolf Ramm D226 LSRC 660-6532	Head Graduate TA Satish Govindarajan D208 LSRC 660-4008
  Hours:	Mon 10:10, Thu 10:00 or by appointment.	Mon 1:30, Tue 10:00 or by appointment.
  Email:	ramm@cs.duke.edu	gsat@cs.duke.edu
  Name: Office: Phone:	Graduate TA Tong Li 02 North Building 660-4002	Head Undergraduate TA David Shifren Camelot 207 613-1472
  Hours:	Tue 2:00-3:30, Thu 2:00-3:30 or by appointment.	_______________ or by appointment.
  Email:	tongli@cs.duke.edu	deshif@cs.duke.edu

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