COURSE INFORMATION (First Handout)
William
Stallings Textbook Site
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
| Week |
|
| WEEK1: Sept 7 |
Introductory class, PART I (OVERVIEW), Chapter1 (Introduction) |
| WEEK2: Sept 14 |
Chapter 2 (Computer Evolution & Performance) |
| WEEK3: Sept 21 |
PART II (THE COMPUTER SYSTEM), Chapter 3 (A Top-Level View of Computer Function and Interconnection) |
| WEEK4: Sept 28 |
Chapter 4 (Cache Memory), Presentation Project Assigned |
| WEEK5: Oct 5 |
Chapter 5 (Internal Memory), Chapter 6 (External Memory: HD, RAID) |
| WEEK6: Oct 12 |
Chapter 6 (External Memory): Presentation 1; Chapter 7 (Input/Output): Presentations 2 |
| WEEK7: Oct 19 |
Chapter 8 (Operating System Support): Presentations 3, 4; midterm-review.txt |
| WEEK8: Oct 26 |
MIDTERM |
| WEEK9: Nov 2 |
PART
III (THE CPU), Chapter 9 (Computer Arithmetic): Presentations 5, 6, c.f. Appendix B (Digital Logic) |
| WEEK10: Nov 9 |
PART III (THE CPU), Chapter 10 (Instruction Sets): Presentations 7, 8 |
| WEEK11: Nov 16 |
Ch 12 (Registers/InstrucrionCycle/Pipelining); PART IV (Ch 16/17): THE CONTROL UNIT; Basics |
| WEEK12: Nov 23 |
THANXGIVING
- NO CLASS |
| WEEK13: Nov 30 |
PART
V (Chapter 18): PARALLEL ORGANIZATION; Piplining, Pentium MMX (Sec. 10.5), ...; SMP vs. Cluster (SharedMem vs. Distributed); SMP's Parallel Lab Tour |
| WEEK14: Dec 7 |
PART V (Chapter 18): PARALLEL
ORGANIZATION; Clusters, Switches, Grid; final-review.txt |
| WEEK15: Dec 14 |
FINAL |
A = Assigned
D = Due