Class Schedule

CS 26

As of Oct. 16, 1996

It is your responsibility to read the assigned material before class. What we do in class will not necessarily be what is in the reading. All chapter readings, unless otherwise stated, are from Hamacher.

Oct. 17: Register Files, PC Architecture. A.7--A.14.

Oct. 22: Instruction Execution. 3.1--3.3.

Oct. 24: Performance, Microprogramming. 3.4--3.6.

Oct. 29: Interrupts. 4.1--4.3.

Oct. 31: Midterm 2 review.

Nov. 5: Midterm 2.

Nov. 7: DMA and I/O Buses. 4.4--4.7.

Nov. 12: Memory, Introduction to Caches. 5.1--5.5.

Nov. 14: Caches and Virtual Memory. 5.5--5.9.

Nov. 19: Number Representation and Addition. 6.1--6.5.

Nov. 21: Multiplication. 6.6--6.8.

Nov. 26: Division and Floating Point. 6.9--6.11.

Dec. 3: Pipelining I. 7.1--7.5.

Dec. 5: Pipelinig II, Final Review. 7.6--7.8.