Computer Science 251
Computer Organization and Architecture

Dickinson College
Fall Semester 2003
Grant Braught

General Course Information

Course Schedule

[ September | October | November | December ]

September:

TuesdayFriday
9/2 Introduction
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9/5 History and Structure of Computers
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9/9 Unsigned Whole Numbers
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9/12 Signed Whole Numbers
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9/16 Floating Point Numbers
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9/19 Architecture and Organization
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9/23 Introduction to Assembly Language
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9/26 Branching Instructions
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9/30 Machine Language
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October:

TuesdayFriday
1234 10/3 Midterm Exam #1
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10/7 Arrays and References
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10/10 Procedure Calls
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10/14 Fall Pause
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10/17 Logic Circuits
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10/21 Logic Simplification
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10/24 ALU Design
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10/28 Sequential Circuits
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10/31 Control Unit Design
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November:

TuesdayFriday
11/4 Architecture Variations
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11/7 Performance Evaluation
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11/11 Midterm Exam #2
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11/14 No Class
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11/18 Memory Systems
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11/21 Cache Memory
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11/25 Set Associative Cache
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11/28 Thanksgiving Break
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December:

TuesdayFriday
12/2 Input/Output Systems
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12/5 Disk Systems and RAID
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12/9 Pipelining
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12/12 Alternative Architectures
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Final Exam - Saturday 12/20 - 2:00 pm