| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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8/25
Intro, Information, Computation, Boolean Functions
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8/26
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8/27
Electricity, ICs, Truth Tables, Schematics, Gates
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8/28
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8/29
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9/1
Labor Day
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9/2
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9/3
Binary, Hexadecimal, and Unsigned Integers
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9/4
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9/5
Lab1 due
Add/drop ends
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9/8
Signed Integers, Extension, Truncation, and Addition
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9/9
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9/10
Addition and Overflow
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9/11
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9/12
Lab2 due
Late drop ends
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9/15
Overflow and Multiplexers
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9/16
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9/17
Sequential Logic, Registers, and Clocking
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9/18
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9/19
Lab3 due
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9/22
FSMs and Multiplication
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9/23
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9/24
Exam 1
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9/25
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9/26
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9/29
MIPS Instructions, Registers, and Math
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9/30
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10/1
Memory and Addresses
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10/2
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10/3
Lab4 due
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10/6
Control Flow
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10/7
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10/8
Arrays
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10/9
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10/10
Fall Break
|
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10/13
Functions
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10/14
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10/15
The Stack and Saved Registers
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10/16
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10/17
Lab5 due
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10/20
Bitwise Operations
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10/21
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10/22
Shifting and Bitsets
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10/23
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10/24
Lab6 due
WD/EC due**
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10/27
Floating-point Numbers and Bitfields
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10/28
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10/29
Exam 2
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10/30
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10/31
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11/3
CPU Intro
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11/4
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11/5
The Register File, ALU, and Memory
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11/6
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11/7
Proj1 due
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11/10
The PC and Interconnect
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11/11
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11/12
The Control
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11/13
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11/14
Lab7 due
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11/17
Performance
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11/18
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11/19
Multicycle and Microcode
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11/20
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11/21
Lab8 due
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11/24
Thanksgiving Break
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11/25
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11/26
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11/27
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11/28
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12/1
Pipelining, Caching, and Superscalar
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12/2
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12/3
Final Exam Review
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12/4
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12/5
Proj2 due
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12/8
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12/9
MW Final*
|
12/10
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12/11
TH Final*
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12/12
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*Final exam times: final exam days/times are randomly selected by the university based on when your lecture section meets. Rooms have not yet been assigned but I will put them here when they are.
- Mon/Wed section: Tue 12/9 at 4:00 PM in ???
- Tue/Thu section: Thu 12-11 at 2:00 PM in ???
**WD/EC stands for “withdrawals and final exam conflicts”