| WK | Class/Date | Topic | Book Chapter | Assignments | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tue 8/25 | Computer Organization is... (Zoom) | Ch 1, mostly | Recordings of Class Zoom Meetings | |
| Thu 8/27 | Lightning-fast Overview | Ch 1 | Meet your peers slide due 8/28 and response due 8/30 | Ch 1 Slides | |
| 2 | Tue 9/1 | Instruction Set Architecture and Interrupts | Ch 5, a little Ch 4 (interrupts) | Ch 5 slides | |
| Thu 9/3 | |||||
| 3 | Tue 9/8 | Week 2 Practice Quiz due (Canvas) | |||
| Thu 9/10 | Memory, Memory, Memory | Ch 6 | News Reading Hwk 1 assigned | ||
| 4 | Tue 9/15 | Homework 1 assigned | Ch 6 Slides | ||
| Thu 9/17 | News Reading Hwk 1 due | ||||
| 5 | Tue 9/22 | Homework 1 due (9/21) | |||
| Thu 9/24 | Memory / Cache in-class exercise | Project 1 assigned | |||
| 6 | Tue 9/29 | Memory / Cache in-class exercise | |||
| Thu 10/1 | |||||
| 7 | Tue 10/6 | Virtual Memory | Project 1 due | ||
| Thu 10/8 | Homework 2 assigned | ||||
| 8 | Tue 10/13 | News Reading Hwk 2 assigned | |||
| Thu 10/15 | Input / Output and Storage Systems | Ch 7 | Homework 2 due | Ch 7 Slides | |
| 9 | Tue 10/20 | News Reading Hwk 2 due Homework 3 assigned | |||
| Thu 10/22 | |||||
| 10 | Tue 10/27 | Homework 3 due | |||
| Thu 10/29 | Operating Systems, very briefly | Ch 8 | Ch 8 slides | ||
| 11 | Tue 11/3 | OS's, continued Virtual Machine supplementary discussion |
VM slides | ||
| Thu 11/5 | More VMs | Practice Quiz due (11/6) | |||
| 12 | Tue 11/10 |
Alternative Architectures Shortened "class" time today, so students can watch "John Hennessy and David Patterson Deliver Turing Lecture at ISCA 2018" |
Ch 9 |
Practice Quiz due (11/13) H and P Turing reaction due |
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| Thu 11/12 | Ch 9 slides | ||||
| 13 | Tue 11/17 | Homework 4 assigned | |||
| Thu 11/19 | |||||
| 14 | Tue 11/24 | Non-instructional day. No classes. | |||
| Thu 11/26 | School Holiday: Thanksgiving Day | ||||
| 15 | Tue 12/1 | Quantum Computing / Performance Measurement | Ch 11 | Ch 11 slides | |
| Thu 12/3 |
Homework 4 due Homework 5 assigned |
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| 16 | Tue 12/8 | ||||
| Thu 12/10 | Homework 5 due (12/14) | ||||
| Thu 12/17 |
FINAL EXAM 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm |