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INF2C Computer Systems 2012-13: Schedule of Course Activities

The abbreviations used in the Reading column are:

• P & H: D.A. Patterson and J.L. Hennessy, Computer Organisation and Design, Morgan Kaufmann, 2/e 1998, 3/e 2005, 4/e 2008.
• S & G: A. Silbershatz and P.B. Galvin, Operating Systems Concepts, 5/e, Wiley, 1998. Later editions also fine.
• K & R: B.W. Kernighan and D.M. Ritchie The C Programming Language, 2/e, Prentice Hall PTR, 1998

Wk	Date	Lecture Topic	Reading	Tutorial	Lab	Coursework
1	Tue 18 Sep	Introduction: the Big Picture (Slides, Notes)	P&H 1
	Fri 21 Sep	Data Representation (Slides, Notes)	P&H 2/e: 4.1-4.4, 4.8 (up to FP add) P&H 3/e: 3.1-3.3, 3.6 (up to FP add) P&H 4/e: 2.4, 3.1,3.2, 3.5 (up to FP add)
2	Tue 25 Sep	MIPS instructions and programming 1 (Slides, Notes)	P&H 2/e: 3.1-3.8, A.1-6, A.9. (A3,4,6,9 non examinable) P&H 3/e: 2.1-2.9, A.1-6, A.9. (A3,4,6,9 non examinable) P&H 4/e: 2.1-2.8, B.1-6, B.9. (B3,4,6,7,9 non examinable)		Lab 1:SPIM and MIPS programming
	Fri 28 Sep	MIPS instructions and programming 2 (Slides, Notes included with previous lecture)	As previous lecture
3	Tue 2 Oct	C programming language - Part 1 (Slides, Notes)	K&R 2/e for reference J. Maasen's C for Java S. Simpson's Learning C from Java I. Gupta's C for Java programmers I. Kennedy'sTop tips to help the Java programmer code in C	Tutorial 1 Questions
	Fri 5 Oct	C programming language - Part 2 (Slides, Notes included with previous lecture)	As previous lecture
4	Tue 9 Oct	Logic design - Part 1 (Slides, Notes)	P&H 2/e: B1-3 (up to ROMs), B5 (up to SRAMs), B6 P&H 3/e (on CD): B1-3 (up to ROMs), B8 (up to Verilog), B10 P&H 4/e (on CD): C1-3 (up to ROMs), C7, C8 (up to Verilog), C10			Coursework 1: MIPS Programming hex.c, hex.s, rot13.c, rpn-outline.c
	Fri 12 Oct	Logic Design - Part 2 (Slides, Notes included with previous lecture) Coursework 1	As previous lecture
5	Tue 16 Oct	Processor design - single cycle (Slides, Notes)	P&H 2/e: 5.1-5.3 P&H 3/e: 5.1-5.4 P&H 4/e: 4.1-4.4	Tutorial 2 Questions
	Fri 19 Oct	Processor design - multicycle (Slides, Notes)	P&H 2/e: 2.1-2.3, 5.4 P&H 3/e: 4.2, 5.5 P&H 4/e: 1.4 for CPU performance. See 2/e and 3/e for multi-cycle design.
6	Tue 23 Oct	Processor design - pipelining (Slides, Notes)	P&H 2/e: 6.1 P&H 3/e: 6.1 P&H 4/e: 4.5			Coursework 1 hand-in by 12:00 on Thu 25 Oct
	Fri 26 Oct	Exceptions and Processor Management (Slides, Notes)	P&H 2/e: 5.6, A.7 P&H 3/e: 5.6, A.7 P&H 4/e: 4.9, B.7 S&G 5/e: 2.5.1, 4.1-4.3 S&G 8/e: 1.6, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2
7	Tue 30 Oct	Memory Hierarchy and Caches (Slides, Notes)	P&H 2/e: 7.1, 7.2 P&H 3/e: 7.1, 7.2 P&H 4/e: 5.1, 5.2	Tutorial 3 Questions
	Fri 2 Nov	Virtual Memory (Slides, Notes)	P&H 2/e: 7.4 P&H 3/e: 7.4 P&H 4/e: 5.4
8	Tue 6 Nov	I/O and Peripherals (Slides , Notes)	P&H 2/e: 8.1, 8.3, 8.5 P&H 3/e: 8.1, 8.2, 8.4, 8.5 P&H 4/e: 6.1, 6.3, 6.5, 6.6		Lab 2: SystemC Basics	Coursework 2: Processor Design and Programming in C Handout Code
	Fri 9 Nov	Coursework 2 overview and the SystemC infrastructure (No slides) The SystemC material is non-examinable	Introduction to SystemC (D. Kumar Tala, ASIC World)
9	Tue 13 Nov	NO LECTURE
	Fri 16 Nov	NO LECTURE
10	Tue 20 Nov	NO LECTURE				Coursework 2 hand-in by 16:00 on Wed 21 Nov
	Fri 23 Nov	NO LECTURE
11	Tue 27 Nov	Revision Lecture
	Fri 30 Nov	NO LECTURE