CSC231 Schedule 2010

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Weekly Schedule

Week	Topics	Reading
Week 1 9/08	Wed 9/8 Introduction Syllabus The PC What's inside? The main players First program in assembly structure presentation documentation Fri 9/10 Skeleton program "Hello world!" in assembly: program Introduction to wikimedia Wikipedia Cheat-Sheet Formatting text Inserting images Creating links Hello world! for the Mac PC Demolition Lab <--- report due next Friday, 9/17/10	Chapter 1 in the Art of Assembly. Also Chapter 3, Sections 0 to 3.1.2. Sections 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, and 1.3.5 in Carter's PC Assembly Language.
Week 2 9/13	Monday 9/13 Mini Lab Assembling with the -l option to generate a listing nasm -f elf -F stabs -l helloworld.S helloworld.asm The memory contains numbers only Boolean Algebra Binary system logic expressions Wednesday 9/15 Digital Electronics Lab in FH143 Friday 9/17 Digital Electronics Lab in FH143 Mini Lab #1 Lab #2 (Wednesday) Lab #3 (Friday) Homework #1 <-- due 9/22 midnight
Week 3 9/20	Monday Three-bit adder. Review A word on Verilog and FPGAs Examples Architecture of the Pentium (simplified) Wednesday Reverse engineering a listing, and solution. Exercises on Binary/Hexadecimal (do on your own!) ASCII Table Homework #2	Basic Computer Organization, Sections 3.0, 3.1, 3.3.1 Review Data Representation Bits, Nibbles, Bytes The Hexadecimal System
Week 4 9/27
Week 5 10/04
Week 6 10/11	Monday: Fall Break
Week 7 10/18	Monday: In class Midterm Exam
Week 8 10/25
Week 9 11/01
Week 10 11/08
Week 11 11/15
Week 12 11/22	Wednesday: Thanksgiving Break Friday: Thanksgiving Break
Week 13 11/29
Week 14 12/06
Week 15 12/13	Monday: Last Class

List of Programs

Assembly

• First program in assembly
• Skeleton program
• Hello world! for the Mac

Miscellaneous Information

• Things to remember when working on homework assignments...

Linux Related

• System Calls