CS 3843 Computer Organization Daily Topics for Spring 2014

Listed here are the topics covered in each class.

Entries marked with a * are tentative and subject to change.
1. Week 1, Monday, January 13, 2014
introduction - completed
Information Storage - through Data Types in C

2. Week 1, Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Information Storage - finished

3. Week 1, Friday, January 17, 2014
Integer Representation - up to Conversions bvetween signed and unsigned

4. Week 2, Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Integer Representation - finished

5. Week 2, Friday, January 24, 2014
UTSA was closed during class time due to bad weather.
No class today.
Late assignment 0 is due at the start of class on Monday, January 27.

6. Week 3, Monday, January 27, 2014
Computer Arithmetic - up to multiplication

7. Week 3, Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Computer Arithmetic - finished
Floating Point - up to IEEE format

8. Week 3, Friday, January 31, 2014
Floating Point - up to IEEE format: denormalized

9. Week 4, Monday, February 3, 2014
Floating Point - up to Example 2

10. Week 4, Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Floating Point - up to Floating Point Operations

11. Week 4, Friday, February 7, 2014
Floating Point - Did floating point activity

12. Week 5, Monday, February 10, 2014
Floating Point - Completed
Assembly Language Introduction - up to examples of instructions

13. Week 5, Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Assembly Language Introduction - finished
Machine Level Representation - up to IA32 registers

14. Week 5, Friday, February 14, 2014
Machine Level Representation - into sum example

15. Week 6, Monday, February 17, 2014
Machine Level Representation - finished

16. Week 6, Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Midterm Exam 1

17. Week 6, Friday, February 21, 2014
Section 3.4 - into example 3 driver

18. Week 7, Monday, February 24, 2014
Section 3.4 - still working on example 3 driver

19. Week 7, Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Section 3.4 - up to Example 5 driver

20. Week 7, Friday, February 28, 2014
Section 3.4 - through Example 6 driver

21. Week 8, Monday, March 3, 2014
Section 3.5 - into Special Arithmetic Operations

22. Week 8, Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Section 3.5 - finished
Section 3.6 - into section 3.6.1

23. Week 8, Friday, March 7, 2014
Section 3.6 - into Jump Example

24. Week 9, Monday, March 17, 2014
Section 3.6 - completed

25. Week 9, Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Section 3.7 - up to recursive procedures

26. Week 9, Friday, March 21, 2014
Section 3.7 - almost done

27. Week 10, Monday, March 24, 2014
Section 3.7 - completed
Section 4.1 - Up to RISC/CISC

28. Week 10, Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Section 4.1 - Finished

29. Week 10, Friday, March 28, 2014
Section 4.2 - into Multiplexers

30. Week 11, Monday, March 31, 2014
Section 4.2 - started adders

31. Week 11, Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Midterm Exam 2

32. Week 11, Friday, April 4, 2014
Section 4.2 - up to propagation delay

33. Week 12, Monday, April 7, 2014
Section 4.2 - Memory and Clocking

34. Week 12, Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Section 4.2 - Up to D Flip Flop

35. Week 12, Friday, April 11, 2014
Section 4.2 - Finished

36. Week 13, Monday, April 14, 2014
Section 4.3 - Introduction

37. Week 13, Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Section 4.3 - Through trace of OP1

38. Week 13, Friday, April 18, 2014
Section 4.3 - Through traditional instruction cycle

39. Week 14, Monday, April 21, 2014
Section 4.3 - Through trace of jxx

40. Week 14, Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Section 4.3 - completed

41. Week 14, Friday, April 25, 2014
Started Review: floating point representation

42. Week 15, Monday, April 28, 2014
Review third part of the course: completed
Started Review: up to floating point representation

43. Week 15, Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Review: finished
Review

Final Exam: Tuesday, May 6 at 7:00 am