Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering
ECE 15B - Computer Organization, Spring 2006
Course
Description: Basic memory and processor
organization, instruction set architecture, assembly language programming,
number systems, arithmetic, data transfer and control flow instructions,
procedures, memory management and program execution.
News: See the bulletin board for class
announcements. Please ask any non-personal messages here, i.e. do not
email the TAs or professor general questions about the class (this includes
homework, projects, etc). Everyone monitors board, which will result in a
faster response to your question.
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Instructor:
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Prof. Ryan
Kastner (kastner@ece)
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TAs:
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Frank Dai
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frankdai@umail
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Anup Hosangadi
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anup@ece
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Chin-Han Lin
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chinhan@umail
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Jimmy Lin
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jhlin@ece
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Rami Yassine
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rami@ece
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Lecture Schedule:
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Tuesday/Thursday 5-6:15pm Buchanan 1940
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Discussion:
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Monday 7:00- 7:50 Phelps 1444 - Anup
Monday 6:00- 6:50 Buchanan 1934 - Rami
Wednesday 6:00- 6:50 HSSB 3201 - Jimmy
Friday 9:00- 9:50 Girvetz 1116 - Chin-Han
Friday 10:00-10:50 Eng. 1 2162 - Frank
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Office hours:
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Instructor's Office Hours:
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Tuesday 6:30-7:30pm, Thursday 2-3pm or by appointment, @ Engr. I, Room 4123
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TA's Office Hours:
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Rami - Tuesday 1-2PM Phelps 1435
Jimmy - Wednesday 4:45-5:45PM Phelps 1435
Frank - Friday 11-12AM – Phelps 1435
Chin-Han - Thursday 11-noon Phelps 1435
Anup - Monday 1-2PM Phelps 1435
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Course
Information
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Grading:
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Homework Assignments: 10%
Projects 20%
Quiz 1: 15%
Quiz 2: 15%
Final: 40%
Class Participation 5%
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Text Book:
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Computer Organization and Design: The
Hardware/Software Interface, Third Edition ("P+H") by David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy
MIPS Assembly Language Programming by Robert L. Britton
References:
The Art of Assembly Language Programming (AoA)
by Randall Hyde
Essential C -
Stanford CS Education Library
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Calendar:
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Week
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Date
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Topic
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Assignments
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Reading
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1
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April 4
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Lecture 1 - Introduction
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Homework #0
assigned
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Gordon Moore's original article
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April 6
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Lecture 2 - Overview of
Computer Organization
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Homework #1
assigned
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2
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April 11
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Lecture 3 - Arithmetic
Instructions
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Homework #0 due
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P+H 2.1-2.3
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April 13
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Lecture 4 - Data Transfer
Instructions
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Homework #1 due
Homework #2 assigned
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P+H 2.3
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3
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April 18
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Lecture 5 - Control Flow
Instructions
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P+H 2.6, 2.9
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April 20
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Lecture 6 - Logic and
Shift Instructions, Bytes and Overflow
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Homework #2 due
Project #1 assigned
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P+H 2.5
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4
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April 25
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Lecture 7 - Procedures
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P+H 2.7, A.6
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April 27
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Lecture 8 - Procedures
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5
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May 2
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Lecture 9 - Instruction Representation
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P+H 2.4, 2.9
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May 4
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Quiz 1
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Homework #3 assigned
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6
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May 9
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Lecture 10 – Instruction
Representation
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May 11
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Lecture 11 - Floating
Point
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Project #1 due
Project #2 assigned
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P+H 3.2, 3.3, 3.6
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7
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May 16
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Lecture 12 - Pointers & Arrays
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Essential C -
Pointers and Memory (Section 1), Section 3, Section
6 (pg 33-36)
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May 18
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Lecture 13 - Strings,
Lists and Stacks
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Homework #3 due
Homework #4
assigned
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Essential C
- Linked List Problems Section 1
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8
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May 23
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Lecture 14 - Memory
Management
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P+H A.5, Essential C -
Section 6 (pg 38-40)
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May 25
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Quiz 2
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Project #2 due
Project #3 assigned
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9
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May 30
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Lecture 15 - Memory
Management
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Essential C
- Pointers and Memory (Section 4)
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June 1
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Lecture 16 - Executing
Programs: Compiling, Assembling, Linking and Loading
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Homework #4 due
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P+H 2.10, A.1 - A.4
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10
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June 6
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Lecture 17 - History of
the Computing World: Part I
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June 8
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Lecture 18 - Final Review
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Project #3 due
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The slides are provided for your convenience. I adapted these from
lectures taught by Patterson. I will use these as a basis for the
lectures; however I may also discuss some topics not in these slides.
Anything covered in lecture is fair game for homeworks
& tests. The slides for future lectures are taken from last year's
class. The newest slides are posted the day of the lecture.
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Homework:
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Homework #0
Homework #1 - Solutions
Homework #2 - Solutions
Homework #3 - Solutions
Homework #4 - Solutions
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Projects:
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Project
#1
Project #2
Project #3
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Quizzes:
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Approx. April 27, in class
Approx. May 25, in class
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Final:
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7:30-10:30pm - Wednesday June 14, 2006, Buchanan 1940
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Confidentiality:
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Sample classwork will be used
for accreditation purposes. Student work is considered confidential
information according to university rules. Legally speaking,
"Confidential information may be released within the university, such as
to a faculty or staff member acting in the student’s educational
interests and the information is needed in the course of performing advisory,
instructional, supervisory, or administrative duties for the
university;". What this means is that we will collect several
examples from each homework, project, quiz and final to evaluate how well we
are teaching you. Please let the professor know if you have any
problems with this.
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Useful Web Links
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Morgan
Kaufmann's page about the text book
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