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Department of Information Technology

Computer Architectue I (1DT016)

Teaching Staff

Lectures
Instructor: Cary Laxer
Office: MIC building 1, floor 2, room 1240
Phone: (018) 471-6861
E-mail:
Laboratories
Instructor: Ahmed Rezine
Office: MIC building 1, floor 1, 1141
Phone: (018) 471-3159
E-mail:
Instructor: Noomene Ben Henda
Office: MIC building 1, floor 1, 1138
Phone: (018) 471-7217
E-mail:

Textbooks

Structured Computer Organization (Fifth Edition) by Andrew S. Tanenbaum. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006. ISBN 0-13-148521-0.
Introduction to RISC Assembly Language Programming by John Waldron. Addison Wesley, 1999. ISBN 0-201-39828-1.

Schedule

Note: Topics and reading assignments will be filled in later.

Session Date Time Location Topics Reading Lecture Slides
1 Friday, 28 September 9-12 P1245 Introductions, computer organization overview, introduction to assembly language programming Tanenbaum: Chapter 1, Waldron: Chapters 1-4.4 PowerPoint PDF
2 Friday, 28 September 13-15 P1245 Assembly language programming Waldron: Chapters 4.5-5 PowerPoint PDF
3 Friday, 28 September 15-17 P1549D Laboratory 1 introduction
4 Saturday, 29 September 9-12 P1245 Assembly language programming Waldron: Chapters 6-8 PowerPoint PDF
5 Saturday, 29 September 12-15 P549D Laboratory 1
6 Friday, 19 October 9-12 P1245 Floating point numbers, computer systems organization Tanenbaum: Appendix B, Chapter 2 PowerPoint PDF
7 Friday, 19 October 13-15 P1549D Laboratory 2 introduction
8 Friday, 19 October 15-17 P1245 Digital logic Tanenbaum: Chapter 3 PowerPoint PDF
9 Saturday, 20 October 9-12 P1245 Microarchitecture Tanenbaum: Chapter 4 PowerPoint PDF
10 Saturday, 20 October 12-15 P1549D Laboratory 2
11 Friday, 16 November 9-12 P1245 Instruction set architecture Tanenbaum: Chapter 5 PowerPoint PDF
12 Friday, 16 November 13-15 P1245 Operating system machine level Tanenbaum: Chapter 6 PowerPoint PDF
13 Friday, 16 November 15-17 P1549D Laboratory 3 introduction
14 Saturday, 17 November 9-12 P1245 Parallel computer architectures Tanenbaum: Chapter 8 PowerPoint PDF
15 Saturday, 17 November 12-152 P1549D Laboratory 3

Final Exam: Saturday, 15 December
The exam is now graded. Those of you who gave permission to post your exam results may see your scores here.

Updated  2007-12-19 15:14:38 by Cary Laxer.