Week	Date	Lec #	Topic	Reading BEFORE this date	Out	In (Due)
1	8/29	L1	Computer system abstractions, computer system basics
	8/31	D1	Meet your TA, unix, binary/hex numbers	P&P Chapter 1, 2.1-2.2
2	9/5	L2	Basic electronics and transistors, N, P transistors, inverter design		HW#1
	9/7	D2	Gates from transistors	P&P 3.1-3.2, Reader pp. 1-10 (Uyemura 15-32), pp. 27-30 (Weste and Eshraghian 5-10)
3	9/10	L3	Boolean algebra and relation to circuits, combinational circuits	Reader pp. 11-25 (Uyemura 32-63), pp. 30-42 (Weste and Eshraghian 11-21, 40-51)
	9/12	L4	Datapath elements (bitwise gates, multiplexors, sign extenders, encoders, decoders, adders)	P&P 3.3
	9/14	D3	Fun with datapath elements, 2's complement review		HW#2	HW#1
4	9/17	L5	Latches, flip-flops, and synchronous design	P&P 3.4-3.6
	9/19	L6	Storage circuits and memory design
	9/21	D4	Flip-flop examples, memory, addressibility	Reader 147-164 (Maccabe 4.1-4.4)		HW#2
5	9/24	L7	LC-3 elements, registers, and the ADD instruction	P&P 3.7, 5.1
	9/26	L8	State machines and control logic		HW#3
	9/28	D5	Other data type representations (floating point, ASCII), exam review	P&P 2.7, Reader 61-76, 199-258 (Maccabe 1.2-1.4, Chapter 7, Chapter 8)
6	10/1	Exam 1
	10/3	L9	von Neumann computers, LC-3 ISA overview, LC-3 memory organization	P&P Chapter 4, Reader 133-143 (Maccabe Chapter 3.2)
	10/5	D6	LC-3 datapath examples using LC-3 instructions	P&P Appendix A		HW#3
7	10/8	L10	Computation and memory instructions	P&P 5.2-5.3
	10/10	L11	Control flow	P&P 5.4-5.6	HW#4
	10/12	D7	LC-3 instruction review, TRAP instruction, I/O programming
8	10/15	L12	Register transfer level (RTL) code	P&P Appendix C.1-C.3
	10/17	L13	LC-3 Control logic, state diagrams	P&P Appendix C.4-C.6
	10/19	D8	RTL and control examples			HW#4
9	10/22	L14	Introduction to I/O, I/O programming	P&P Chapter 8
	10/24	L15	Interrupts, LC-3 timer interrupts and interrupt control logic
	10/26	D9	Assembly language programming	P&P 7.1-7.3	HW#5, extra file
	10/29	L
	10/31	L
	11/2	D				HW#5
10	11/5	L16	TRIPS and subroutines	P&P Chapter 9
	11/7	Exam 2
	11/9	D10	Exam Recap
	11/12	L17	The run-time stack	Chapter 10
11	11/14	L18	Linking, loading, binary formats, and dynamic memory allocation	P&P Chapter 7.4
	11/16	D11	Exam recap
12	11/19	L19	The C programming language, ariables and operators	P&P Chapters 11 and 12, Appendix D
	11/21	L20	Control structures and functions	P&P Chapters 13, 14
13	11/26	L21	Pointers and arrays, recursion	P&P Chapters 15, 16	HW#6, extra files
	11/28	L22	I/O in C, data structures	P&P Chapters 18 and 19
	11/30	D12	Debugging in C	P&P Chapter 17
14	12/3	Exam 3
14	12/5	L23	Data structures and dynamic memory allocation
	12/7	D13	Exam recap			HW#6
F	12/15	Final Exam	Saturday, 9am - 12 pm