Computer Science 251
Computer Organization and Architecture

Dickinson College
Fall Semester 2005
Grant Braught

General Course Information

Course Schedule

[ August | September | October | November | December ]

August:

MondayThursday
8/29 Introduction
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September:

MondayThursday
1234 9/1 Performance Evaluation
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9/5 History and Structure of Computers
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9/8 Unsigned Whole Numbers
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9/12 Signed Whole Numbers
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9/15 Floating Point Numbers
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9/19 Architecture and Organization
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9/22 Introduction to Assembly Language
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9/26 Branching Instructions
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9/29 Assembly Language Exercises
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October:

MondayThursday
10/3 Midterm Exam #1
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10/6 Arrays and References
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10/10 Procedure Calls
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10/13 Logic Circuits
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10/17 Fall Pause
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10/20 Logic Simplification
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10/24 ALU Design
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10/27 Sequential Circuits
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10/31 Control Unit Design
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November:

MondayThursday
1234 11/3 Architecture Variations
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11/7 Midterm Exam #2
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11/10 Memory Systems
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11/14 Cache Memory
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11/17 Cache Memory (cont)
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11/21 Virtual Memory
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11/24 Thanksgiving Break
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11/28 Input/Output Systems
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December:

MondayThursday
1234 12/1 Disk Systems and RAID
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12/5 Pipelining
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12/8 Parallelism & Alternative Architectures
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Final Exam - Friday 12/16 - 2:00pm