Computer Science 251
Computer Organization

Dickinson College
Fall Semester 2000
Grant Braught

General Course Information

Course Schedule

[ August | September | October | November | December ]

August:

TuesdayThursday
8/29
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8/31 Course Introduction
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September:

TuesdayThursday
9/5 Assembly Language Branch Instructions
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9/7 Arrays and References
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9/12 Procedure Calls and Local Variables
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9/14 Unsigned Binary Numbers & Addition
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9/19 Signed Binary Numbers, Subtraction and Overflow
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9/21 Logic Gates, Circuits and Expressions
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9/26 Propagation Delays and Logic Simplification
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9/28 VHDL Examples
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October:

TuesdayThursday
10/3 Karnaugh Maps
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10/5 Arithmetic and Logic Unit
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10/10 Fast Addition
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10/12 Mid-Term Pause
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10/17 Inside the Logic Gates
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10/19 Exam #1
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10/24 Latches and Registers
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10/26 Register Banks
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10/31 Introduction to the Datapath
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November:

TuesdayThursday
1234 11/2 I/O and the System Bus
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11/7 I/O Programming
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11/9 Machine, Assembly and Micro Programs
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11/14 Immediate Mode Instructions
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11/16 Assemblers, Labels & Pseudo Instructions
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11/21 Micro-Program Control Unit
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11/23 Thanksgiving Vacation
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11/28 Electronics Lab 1
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11/30 Electronics Lab 2
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Decemberr:

TuesdayThursday
12/5 Performance Issues
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12/7 Performance Issues
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12/12 Final Exam (2:00 pm)
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12/14 1234