Computer Organization Spring 2008

Office Hours
Dave Hollinger hollingd@cs.rpi.edu Mon, Thu 1-3PM Amos Eaton 107	Nitai Mandhyan mandhn@rpi.edu Tue 1-3 Amos Eaton 217	Akintayo Holder holdea@rpi.edu Mon, 3:30-5:30 Amos Eaton 217

Want more challenges like HW3 and HW4?
Alex has some for you

Test #1 Topics
Extra Lab (become a pointer expert!): Pointer Lab

Old Tests:

HW	Due Date	Assignment
1	Feb 6^th (by 11:59pm)	C Programming and integer representation
2	Feb 28^th (by 11:59PM)	IA32 Assembly Programming
3	March 9^th	Binary Bomb
4	March 26^th	Buffer Overflow
5	April 11^th	Y86 `leave` instruction
6	April 30^th	Timing and Caching

Lab#	Date	Topic
1	1/23	Course accounts and Unix skills
2	1/30	C Programming and Pointers
3	2/6	C, Overflow, Logic and the time comand
4	2/13	Assembly Code and gdb
5	2/20	Assembly Subroutines, Arrays and Strings
6	2/27	Assembly Code Bombs (HW3 Practice)
7	3/5	C Structures, The Stack, and Buffer Overflow
8	3/26	Arrays and Y86 Programming
9	4/9	Optimization, Timing and Profiling
10	4/16	The Matrix: Memory Performance (Cache Friendly Code)
11	4/23	Cache Architecture

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
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
Floating Point	fp.pdf
Instruction Set Architecture	InstructionSetArch.pdf
IA32 Intro	IA32.pdf	PDF: IA32 Instruction Set Reference (huge...) wikibook: X86
Instruction Sets	IS1.pdf
Instruction Sets: Control (fixed)	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