Computer Science 251
Computer Organization and Architecture

Dickinson College
Fall Semester 2004
Grant Braught

General Course Information

Course Schedule

[ August | September | October | November | December ]

August:

MondayThursday
8/30 Introduction
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September:

MondayThursday
1234 9/2 History and Structure of Computers
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9/6 Unsigned Whole Numbers
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9/9 Signed Whole Numbers
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9/13 No Class
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9/16 Floating Point Numbers
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9/20 Architecture and Organization
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9/23 Introduction to Assembly Language
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9/27 Branching Instructions
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9/30 Machine Language
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October:

MondayThursday
10/4 Midterm Exam #1
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10/7 Arrays and References
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10/11 Procedure Calls
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10/14 Logic Circuits
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10/18 Fall Pause
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10/21 Logic Simplification
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10/25 ALU Design
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10/28 Sequential Circuits
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November:

MondayThursday
11/1 Control Unit Design
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11/4 Architecture Variations
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11/8 Midterm Exam #2
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11/11 Performance Evaluation
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11/15 Memory Systems
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11/18 Cache Memory
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11/22 Virtual Memory
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11/25 Thanksgiving Break
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11/29 Input/Output Systems
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December:

TuesdayFriday
1234 12/2 Disk Systems and RAID
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12/6 Pipelining
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12/9 Parallelism & Alternative Architectures
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Final Exam - Saturday 12/18 - 9:00am