CS 208: Computer Organization & Architecture

Fall 2016

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Weeks 1, 2

Introduction to machine and assembly instruction sets via MIPS

Week 2, 3

The system stack and function calling. Digital logic intro.

Weeks 4, 5

Digital logic from gates to larval datapaths. Takehome exam.

Week 6

Midterm break, multiplication hardware, designing circuits

Week 7

Datapaths

Week 8

Pipelining, intro to memory hierarchies

Weeks 9, 10

Caches, wrap-up