Computer Systems Organization
Section 2

CSCI 463-2

Spring 2009

Last updated Tue. 5/5/2009

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• Final will be Thu. May 8 at 4:00 PM.
  • Review sheet (complete): doc or pdf


• Exam will be Thu. Mar. 24. If you want to have a review, fill out the review sheet (doc or pdf) and bring it to class on Tuesday.
  

• Regular office hours (PM-558): TTh 2-3:20, or by appointment
• TA: Logan Manning, FR-226, MW 1-2 and TTh 12-2
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Architectural overview

• Introduction
• Introduction (continued)
• Architectural overview
• Picture of Von Neumann architecture
• Von Neumann overview
• Fetch/execute cycle
• Fetch/execute example
• Levels of architecture
• Three empirical laws

Data representation: Characters and integers

• Storage and character coding systems
• Character coding systems
• Binary coding systems for integers
• Negative integers
• Multiplication and Booth's algorithm

Data Representation: Floating point

• Floating point representation
• Floating point example
• Normalizing data
• Min/max float limit

Bit representation

• Data storage and transfer
• Catching bit errors

Digital logic level

• Transistors and digital logic
• Boolean rules
• Compound circuits

• Full adder states
• Arithmetic logic unit
• General memory circuits

Micro-architectural level

• Units
• CPU organization
• Datapath
• Bus basics
• Memory organization
• Fetch/execute example
• Pipelining
• Data arrangement (big-endian vs. little-endian)

Marie simulator

• Marie instructions (summary and pointers to individual web pages)
• Marie instruction master list
• Marie sample program

Chapters 4 and 6: Instruction Set Architecture

• Risc/Cisc
• Instruction design issues
• Instructions classified by
• Action
• Data types
• Effective address
• Example

• ISA recognized data types
• CPU/ISA overview notes
• ISA effective addressing
• Example details
• Example summary

Chapter 6: Memory and its management

• Memory overview
• Read-only memory
• Random access memory
• Cache overview
• Cache details
• Cache notes 1
• Cache notes 2
• Cache overview
• Cache details

Chapter 6: Virtual memory

• Ways to expand memory
• Virtual Memory overview
• Virtual memory details
• Segmentation overview
• Virtual memory overview
• Virtual Memory specifics

Chapter 7: Input/output and secondary storage

• I/O overview
• I/O interaction
• Hard drives
• CD-ROM
• DVD-ROM
• DVD copy protection
• Removable storage
• IDE
• SCSI
• RAID
• Bus types
• Buses
• USB
• Secondary concepts
• Secondary interfaces
• Hard drives
• CD vs. DVD
• More about RAID
• Comparison
• Buses

Chapter 8: Operating systems

• Introduction
• Booting system
• Partitioning
• Unix filesystem
• MS-DOS filesystem
• NTFS filesystem
• DLL usage
• Binding
• MS-DOS filesystem
• Unix filesystem
• Assembler 1st pass
• Assembler 2nd pass
• Object modules
• Linker action

Chapter 11: Networking

• Overview
• Local area network
• Internet
• TCP/IP
• Overview
• Local area network
• Internet
• TCP/IP