Digital Logic, Computer Organization, and Assembly Language - CSC 242


	CSC 242 - Digital Logic and Computer Organization and Assembly Language

How to read this schedule:

Lecture topics are discussed on the day indicated.
Reading assignments should be completed before class on the day indicated. Read well ahead,
then come back and study the reading assignment with the goal of full comprehension.
Labs are listed on their due dates and are due by midnight.
This schedule is not set in stone and may be changed without notice, so refer back to it often.

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w e e k	Date TUE/ THUR	Lecture Topic and Reading	Assignments
w e e k	Date TUE/ THUR	Lecture Topic and Reading	Reading	Labs
1	24 Aug 29 Aug	Getting started: The abstraction / implementation paradigm and its role in systems design; Overview of the Hardware Description Language (HDL) used in the course; Designing a set of elementary logic gates from primitive Nand gates, and implementing them in HDL. Hardware Simulator Tutorial	vii-xiv
1	31 Aug	First Lecture	1-28	Getting Started Project00
2
	5 Sep	Boolean arithmetic: Using the previously built logic gates to design and implement a family of binary adders, culminating in the construction of an ALU (Arithmetic-Logic Unit). Digital Components	29-40
	7 Sep	HDL: A formalism for defining and testing chips: objects whose interfaces consist of input and output pins that carry Boolean signals, and whose bodies are composed of interconnected collections of other, lower-level chips. Review the technical reference for the supplied hardware simulator. Adders	281-288	Logic Gates Project01 Quiz 1
3
	12 Sep	Sequential logic: Design and implementation of a memory hierarchy, from elementary flip-flop gates to single-bit cells to registers to RAM units of arbitrary sizes. Sequential Circuits /Designing a Sequential Circuit /Memory	41-54
	14 Sep	Sequential Logic	289-296	Practice Quiz 2
4
	19 Sep	Circuits
	21 Sep	Machine language: Introducing an instruction set; Discussing some trade-offs related to its design; Writing some low-level programs in its assembly language.	56-74	Combinational Chips Project02 Quiz 2
5
	26 Sep	Machine Language	75-77
	28 Sep	Assembler Tutorial CPU Emulator Tutorial		Sequential Chips Project03 PC hint: use 1 Register, 1 INC, 3Mux
6
	3 Oct			Quiz 3
	5 Oct	Computer Architecture Computer architecture: Integrating all the chips built in weeks 1-3 into a computer platform capable of running programs written in the instruction set introduced in week 4.	79-101
7
	10 Oct :)	Fall Break
	12 Oct	Assembler: Basic language translation techniques (parsing, symbol table); Building an assembler for the assembly language presented in week 4. Rect.asm	102-120	Machine Language Project04
8
	17 Oct	Assembler
	19 Oct			Computer Architecture Project05
9
	24 Oct	Virtual machine I: Pushdown automata, stack machines, the role of virtual machines in software architectures like Java and .NET; Introduction of a typical VM language, focusing on its arithmetic commands. Building a program that translates from this VM language into the assembly language.	121-151
	26 Oct	VM Emulator Tutorial / Virtual Machine I
10
	31 Oct	Virtual machine II: Completing the design of the stack machine and its associated VM language, focusing on flow-of-control and subroutine call-and-return commands; Completing the implementation of the VM translator.	153-172
	2 Nov	VMtranslator - project / Notes		Assembler Project06
11
	7 Nov	Virtual Machine II
	9 Nov
12
	14 Nov			Virtual Machine I: Stack Arithmetic Project07 / notes
	16 Nov
13
	21 Nov	Quiz Project 7
	23 Nov	Thanksgiving
14
	28 Nov			Virtual Machine II: Program Control Project08
	30 Nov	Review 1
15
	5 Dec


		Final Exam: Tuesday, Dec 12, 3:00 - 6:00 pm, BR 160