Schedule

The schedule shown below should be considered a working list and will likely change.

Week Topic
Chapter in Texts
Comments
1
8/25
 The MIPS Architecture
Algorithm Development
Number Systems (Review)		 Britton Ch.1
Britton Ch. 2
Britton Ch. 3		 For approximately the first 6 weeks we cover MIPS Assembly Language Programming.
2
9/1
 PCSpim (MIPS simulator)
Algorithm Development
 Britton Ch. 4
Britton Ch. 5
 See also the SPIM Handout and simulator
3
9/8
 Function Calls
Reentrant Functions
Data Structures
 Britton Ch. 6
Britton Ch. 7
Class notes (Goodman, Ch. 7.1-7.2)		  
4
9/15
 Memory-Mapped I/O Britton Ch. 8  
5
9/22
 Floating-Point Instructions Britton Ch. 11
Class notes (Goodman, Ch. 6)		  
6
9/29

Exceptions and Interrupts
Pipelined Implementations
Midterm Exam #1

 Britton Ch. 9
Britton Ch. 10

We'll cover these topics, time permitting.
7
10/6
 Datapath & Memory Interface
Sequencing and Control
Solworth, Ch. 2
Mano Ch. 8
For the last section of the course we cover Control Unit Design.
Ch. 2 from Solworth is a review topic.
In Mano we will cover: 8.1-8.4, [skip 8.5 & 8.6], 8.7
8
10/13
 Control
Solworth, Ch. 3
  
9
10/20
  
 
MythSim simulator
10
10/27
 Sequencing and Control
Mano Ch. 8 (cont.)
 Briefly cover 8.9 & 8.10; 8.11 is covered, skip 8.12 (covered in CS 266)
11
11/3
 Midterm Exam #2
 
 
12
11/10
  
 
 
13
11/17

Memory Systems
Mano Ch. 12
 (also in Solworth, Ch. 5)
14
11/24
  
 
 
15
12/1
 I/O [time permitting]
Mano Ch. 11
 I/O material can also be found in Goodman Ch. 11, and Solworth Ch. 6 & 7)
  12/12 Final Exam Friday, from 10:30-12:30
in our usual room.		    

The prerequisite class of CS 266 should have covered the following topics: Goodman Ch. 3: Number Systems, Ch. 4: Data Representation, Ch. 5: Arithmetic & Logical Operations. The following topics should also have been covered in CS 266: Mano, chapters 1 - 7, covering Combinatorial and Sequential Logic Circuits, Registers & Counters, Memory and PLA's, Datapaths.

[CS Dept.] [UIC] [Prof. Reed]