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Computer Science 251
Computer Organization

Dickinson College
Fall Semester 2001
Grant Braught

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General Course Information

• Syllabus & Course Description
• My Home Page with office hours etc...
  
  
• Icon legend for the course schedule.
  
  
• Microinstruction Worksheet in PDF format.

Course Schedule

[ September | October | November | December ]

September:

Tuesday	Thursday
9/4 Introduction to Assembly Language 1234	9/6 Branch Instructions 1234
9/11 Class Canceled 1234	9/13 Addressing Modes & Arrays 1234
9/18 Procedure Calls and Local Variables 1 1234	9/20 Procedure Calls and Local Variables 2 1234
9/25 Unsigned Binary Numbers & Addition 1234	9/27 Signed Binary Numbers & Subraction 1234

October:

Tuesday	Thursday
10/2 Logic Gates, Circuits & Expressions 1234	10/4 VHDL Examples 1234
10/9 Propagation Delays 1234	10/11 Logic Simplification 1234
10/16 An ALU 1234	10/18 Mid-Term Exam 1234
10/23 Mid-Term Pause 1234	10/25 CMOS: Inside the Gates 1234
10/30 Fast Addition 1234	1234

November:

Tuesday	Thursday
1234	11/1 Latches and Registers 1234
11/6 A Register Bank 1234	11/8 A Simple Datapath 1234
11/13 Machine Language and Mircoprograms 1234	11/15 The Program Counter and Memory Access 1234
11/20 The Program Counter and Memory Access 2 1234	11/22 Thanksgiving Vacation 1234
11/27 Immediate Mode LOAD Instructions 1234	11/29 Direct Mode LOAD & STORE Instructions 1234

December:

Tuesday	Thursday
12/4 Branching ML Instructions 1234	12/6 Assembler Labels & The Micro-program Control Unit 1234
12/11 1234	12/13 1234
Final Exam - Sunday 12/16 - 2:00 pm

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