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Computer Science 251
Computer Organization

Dickinson College
Spring Semester 1998
Grant Braught

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General Course Information

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Course Schedule

[ January | February | March | April | May ]

January:

Tuesday	Thursday
1/20	1/22 Introduction 1234
1/27 Radix Numbers & Binary Arithmetic 1234	1/29 Negative Binary Numbers 1234

February:

Tuesday	Thursday
2/3 Transistors & Logic Gates 1234	2/5 Logic Circuits 1234
2/10 Combinational Logic Circuits 1234	2/12 Arithmetic & Logical Units 1234
2/17 Gate Delays & Computer Speed 1234	2/19 Boolean Logic Simplification 1234
2/24 Karnaugh Map Logic Simplification 1234	2/26 Sequential Circuits 1234

March:

Tuesday	Thursday
3/3 Mid-Term Exam #1 (In Class) 1234	3/5 Registers & Memories 1234
3/10 The Register Bank 1234	3/12 Introduction to the Data Path 1234
3/17 Spring Break 1234	2/19 Spring Break 1234
3/24 The Data Path & Computer Speed 1234	3/26 The System Bus & Memory Access 1234
3/31 The Control Unit 1234

April:

Tuesday	Thursday
	4/2 Micro-Programming 1234
4/7 Assembly Language & The Instruction Cycle 1234	4/9 Compilation & Assembly Language Programming 1234
4/14 Multiplication 1234	4/16 Floating Point Numbers 1234
4/21 Device Programming 1234	4/23 The Exam 1234
4/28 Disk I/O & Bootstrapping 1234	4/30 Interrupts, Multiprogramming & The OS 1234

May:

Friday

5/8 Final Exam Date - 2:00 pm Final Project Due

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