Paul D. Paulson 
(contact info)

Teaching Assistant
Chuck Evans (email)

Office hours KEC 1130:
                   M  9 - 11, 4 - 6
                  W  4 - 6
                   R  9 - 11, 3 - 6
                   F  9 - 11

Required: Tanenbaum, Andrew S., Structured Computer Organization (5th edition), Prentice-Hall, 2006. (ISBN 0131485210).

Recommended: Irvine, Kip R., Assembly Language for Intel-Based Computers (5th ed.), Prentice-Hall, 2007. (ISBN 0132383101).

1. Identify the major components of CISC and RISC architectures, and explain their purposes and interactions.
2. Simulate the internal representation of data, and show how data is stored and accessed in memory.
3. Explain the relationships between a hardware architecture and its instruction set, and simulate micro-programs.
4. Explain the Instruction Execution Cycle.
5. Explain the differences among high-level, assembly, and machine languages.
6. Write well-modularized computer programs in an assembly language, implementing decision, repetition, and procedures.
7. Use a debugger, and explain register contents.
8. Explain how the system stack is used for procedure calls and parameter passing.
9. Explain how editors, assemblers, linkers, and operating systems enable computer programming.
10. Explain various mechanisms for implementing parallelism in hardware/software.

• 5 homework sets
• 5 programming projects
• 3 quizzes
• Midterm exam
• Final exam  (Monday, March 16, 9:30 am)

Final grades are based on the accumulated percentage.  See the evaluation criteria and grading scale.  Quiz, exam, and final grades may be adjusted linearly if it seems appropriate.

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