Computer Organization Spring 2007

Office Hours
Dave Hollinger hollingd@cs.rpi.edu Mon 6-8pm, Thu 1-3pm Amos Eaton 107	Cagri Ozcaglar ozcagc2@cs.rpi.edu Tue, Wed 4-6pm Amos Eaton 204	Brandon Williams willib4@cs.rpi.edu Mon, Thu 12-2pm Amos Eaton 119

HW	Due Date	Assignment
1	Feb 14th (by 11:59pm)	C Programming and integer representation
2	March 2nd (by 11:59pm)	IA32 Programming
3	March 19th (by 11:59pm)	Binary Bomb
4	April 2nd (by 11:59pm)	Buffer Overflow
5	April 26th	Y86 `leave` instruction

Lab#	Date	Topic
1	1/24	Course accounts and Unix skills
2	1/31	C Programming and Pointers
3	2/7	C, Overflow, Logic and the time comand
4	2/14	Pointers, Pointers, Pointers
5	2/21	Assembly Code and gdb
6	2/28	Assembly Subroutines, Arrays and Strings
7	3/14	Assembly Code Bombs (HW3 Practice)
8	3/21	C Structures & Arrays, the Stack, and Buffer Overflow
9	4/4	Test Review
10	4/11	Y86 Programming
11	4/18	Y86 Sequential Implementation and Y86 simulator
12	4/25	Optimization, Timing and Profiling
13	5/2	The Matrix: Memory Performance (Cache Friendly Code)

Topic	Adobe PDF	Links
Course Introduction	intro.pdf
Topic Overview and Background	overview.pdf
Data Representation	datarep.pdf
Data Representation Part 2	datarep2.pdf	showbytes.c add2nums.c mult2nums.c
Floating Point	fp.pdf
Crash Course on Using Unix	unixcc.pdf	Unix FAQ Unix Progamming FAQ Unix Tutorials
Sample Unix Session	unixsession.pdf
C Programming for C++ Programmers	cprogcc.pdf	reverse.c FreeBSD man pages
Instruction Set Architecture	InstructionSetArch.pdf
IA32 Intro	IA32.pdf
Instruction Sets	IS1.pdf
Instruction Sets: Control	IS-Control.pdf
Procedures and the Stack	stack.pdf
Stack Samples	StackSamples.pdf	add.c blahfoo.c crash.c
Assembly and C Data Structures	DataStructures.pdf
IA32 Floating Point	IA32Float.pdf
Buffer Overflow	overflow.pdf	Sample code from slides
Logic Design	Logic.pdf
Common Combinational Circuits	Adder.pdf
Sequential Logic	Flops.pdf
Y86 Instruction Set	Y86.pdf	Y86 Simulator (available via Textbook Home page) Y86 Instruction Set Reference
Y86 Sequential Implementation	seq.pdf	HCL for simple Y86 Sequential
Y86 Pipelined Implementation	Y86Pipe.pdf
Pipelining Summary	pipe-summary.pdf
Code Optimization	optimization.pdf
Measuring Execution Time	timing.pdf
Memory Hierarchy	memoryhierarchy.pdf
Cache Design	Caching.pdf
Cache and Programs	CacheCode.pdf
Virtual Memory	virtualmemory.pdf