Schedule - Fall 2008

1	Th	Aug 21	introduction, history of computers
2	Tu	Aug 26	number systems (ch1)
3	Th	Aug 28	Quartus II - Simulation
4	Tu	Sep 2	Quartus II - DE2 board
5	Th	Sep 4	Quartus II - Nios II processor
6	Tu	Sep 9	sequential logic, FSM
7	Th	Sep 11	PIC32 PIO system
8	Tu	Sep 16	PIC32 simulation
9	Th	Sep 18	arithmetic and logic instructions
10	Tu	Sep 23	discussion of asgn 4, shift instructions
11	Th	Sep 25	comparison instructions
12	Tu	Sep 30	test 1
13	Th	Oct 2	branch and jump instructions
14	Tu	Oct 7	review branch/jump, assembly programs
	Th	Oct 9	midterm break
15	Tu	Oct 14	load/store instructions
16	Th	Oct 16	memory, PIC32 memory usage
17	Tu	Oct 21	srisc1 - instruction memory
18	Th	Oct 23	register file, ALU, shifter
19	Tu	Oct 28	compare/branch
20	Th	Oct 30	jump, load/store
21	Tu	Nov 4	partial word load/store
22	Th	Nov 6	sys2 implementation
23	Tu	Nov 11	sramtest, DE2 console, startup
24	Th	Nov 13	startup, disks
25	Tu	Nov 18	pipeline
26	Th	Nov 20	test 2
27	Tu	Nov 25	intro to cache
	Th	Nov 27	Thanksgiving
28	Tu	Dec 2	cache, virtual memory
29	Th	Dec 4	parallal computing
30	Tu	Dec 9
31	Sat	Dec 13	Final exam 2:30 pm

Maintained by John Loomis, last updated 13 November 2008