Basic Information Course Description Textbook Lectures Your Evaluation Weekly Events The Projects 
Welcome to CSCI 140. For this course, we will centralize the distribution of information on this course web page. This page can be found on the Clark web server HERE.
Basic Information Course Description Textbook Lectures Your Evaluation Weekly Events The Projects | Professor: | Dr. Jerry Breecher, jbreecher at clarku dot edu |
| BioPhysics Room 343, (508)793-7396 | |
| Meeting Time: | Lecture: Tuesday, Friday 1:25 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. - BP326 |
| Lab: Wednesday, 9:30 - 11:00
BP310 |
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| Office Hours: | Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 10:00 - 12:00 |
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By appointment; 24 hour response by email |
This is what the catalog says:
140 Assembly Language And Computer Organization/ Lecture, Laboratory
Covers fundamentals of assembly language programming such as data representation, the instruction set, addressing mode, macros, procedures, input and output facilities, assembler and linker, introduction to logic circuits, and the basic machine organization of conventional computers. The goal is to understand how a computer performs various tasks that are completely hidden from the user in a high-level language. For the laboratory component, students will write several programs in assembly language.
REQUIRED
Bates, Martin, PIC Microcontrollers: An Introduction To
Microelectronics. Second Edition, 2004
Elsevier ISBN 0-7506-6267-0.
Null, Linda & Lobur, Julia, Essentials
of Computer Organization and Architecture, Second Edition, 2006
Jones and Bartlett, ISBN: 0763737690
In the Table below are pointers to the notes for the course. The formats available can be read by Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt), or read by Apache (.pdf). Lectures generally will be from these notes. Feel free to print them out and use them during class to avoid extensive note-taking. You can simply annotate these notes rather than writing everything. But warning, don't be lulled into a false sense of security. What's talked about in the class will be in MUCH MORE DETAIL than is present on these slides. In the past students have been lulled into thinking they know what happens in class because of these notes - they were surprised!!
An added advantage of written out notes is that you know what to read in the text. In general, I follow the book fairly closely so you should have no trouble figuring out where to find material to amplify these course notes.
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Lecture
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Lab
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Reading
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01 - Jan 13
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Bates & lots of references in lab
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02 - Jan 16
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Lab Jump Start
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03 - Jan 20
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N & L: Chapter 2 | ||
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04 - Jan 23
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Chapter 2: Data Representation
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05 - Jan 27
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N & L: Chapter 3 | ||
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06 - Jan 30
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Chapter 3: Digital Logic
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Lab 3: Driving Hardware .pdf | |
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07 - Feb 3
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N & L: Chapter 3 Patterson & Hennessy - | ||
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08 - Feb 6
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Chapter 4: Instruction Set Architecture
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09 - Feb 10
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Midterm Exam
Chapter 4: Instruction Set Architecture
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10 - Feb 13
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Chapter 4: Instruction Set Architecture
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Lab 4: Owning the PIC! .pdf | |
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11 - Feb 17
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Chapter 4: Instruction Set Architecture
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12 - Feb 20
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Chapter 4: Instruction Set Architecture
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13 - Feb 24
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| 14 - Feb 27 | Chapter 5: More ISA - Pipelining | ||
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X - Mar 3, 6
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Spring Break
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Lecture
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Lab
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Reading
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15 - Mar 10
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Chapter 5: More ISA - Pipelining
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Lab 5: The Bomb .pdf | |
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16 - Mar 13
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Chapter 5: More ISA - Pipelining
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17 - Mar 17
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Midterm Exam
Chapter 5: More ISA - Pipelining
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18 - Mar 20
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Chapter 5: More ISA - Pipelining
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Lab 6: Processors .pdf | |
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19 - Mar 24
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20 - Mar 27
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Chapter 6: Memory
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21 - Mar 31
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Chapter 6: Memory
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Lab 7: Memory & cache .pdf | |
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22 - Apr 3
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Chapter 6: Memory
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23 - Apr 7
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24 - Apr 10
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Midterm Exam
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25 - Apr 14
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Chapter 7: IO & Storage
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Lab 8: Disks .pdf | |
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26 - Apr 17
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Chapter 7: IO & Storage
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27 - Apr 21
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Chapter 7: IO & Storage
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28 - Apr 24
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Chapter 7: IO & Storage
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| 29 - Apr 28 | Chapter 7: IO & Storage | ||
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EXAM
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May 5,
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1:30 -
3:30 PM
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Your evaluation in this course is determined by:
50% Projects - NOTE - this is a hands on course which is why your programming/lab work is evaluated so highly.
30% 3 Midterm Exams - The lowest of the 3 midterm exams will be dropped.
20% Final Exam
In addition, you will be expected to complete the Learning To
Love
Linux sequence.