INEL 4215

Spring 2004

Course Meeting Schedule

Week 1

Meeting 1 (Wenesday, Jan 14): Introduction to the course

Discuss syllabus and rules.

Meeting 2 (Friday, Jan 16): Introduction to Computer Architecture.

What is Computer Architecture? What is abstraction? Lecture notes here.

Week 2

(Monday, Jan 19) (Holiday, Martin Luther King, Jr)

(Wednesday, Jan 21) Chapter 1

Intro to Chapter 1, User’s view, Programmer’s view, Instruction set architecture. Lecture notes part 1. Lecture notes part 2.

(Friday, Jan 23) Pictures. Programmers models of commercial machines, tools assembly programmer.

Announcements: Quiz on Wednesday, Jan 28, 2004. Homework 1. Document here.

Programmer’s models of commercial machines. Machine state, HLL vs machine language, instruction classes. Lecture here.

Week 3

(Monday, Jan 26) Chapter 1

Computer architect’s view, logic designer’s view, summary of chapter 1. Lecture notes part 1. Lecture notes part 2, Summary of Chapter 1, here.

(Wednesday, Jan 28) Introduction Chapter 2

Quiz 1. Classification of Computers. Document here.

(Friday, Jan 30) Chapter 2. Document here.

Week 4

(Monday, February 2)

(Wednesday, February 4)

(Makeup Class, Wednesday, February 4) The SRC

Description of the Simple Risc Computer Document here.

(Friday, February 6) Number systems, signed numbers

Signed Number Representation and Sign Extended 2’s complement. Doc here.

Week 5

(Monday, February 9)

(Wednesday, February 11) First UPRM Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing

Sala Eugene Francis, Edificio de Fisica Link.

(Friday, February 13) No class (Makeup was on Wed, Feb 4)

Week 6

(Monday, February 16) Holiday, No class

(Wednesday, February 18) Instruction set SRC

Review SRC. Arithmetic/Logic instructions.

(Friday, Feb 20) Project 1

Description.

Week 7

(Monday, Feb 23)