CSCI 463-01 System Architecture
Spring 2008 Syllabus - Tentative & Subject to Change
Date	Topic	Reading
Jan. 14	Introduction Numbers	Ch. 2	Jan. 16	Characters & Integers	Ch. 2
Jan. 21	No Class	Ch. 2	Jan. 23	Math Floating-point	Ch. 2
Jan. 28	Floating-Point Numbers	Ch. 2	Jan. 30	Digital Math	Ch. 3
Feb. 04	History & Boolean	Ch. 3	Feb. 06	History & Boolean	Ch. 3
Feb. 11	Logic Circuits	Appendix A	Feb. 13	Digital Math Micro-architecture	Ch. 3, 5
Feb. 25	Micro- architecture CPU	Ch. 5	Feb. 27	Test
Mar. 03	Instruction Set Architecture	Ch. 4 Web	Mar. 05	ISA Address  Modes	Ch. 4 Web
Mar. 10	Spring		Mar. 12	Break
Mar. 17	Simulator	Ch. 4 Web	Mar. 19	Simulator	Ch. 4 Web
Mar. 24	Memory	Ch. 6 Web	Mar. 26	Memory	Ch. 6 Web
Mar. 31	Caching	Web	Apr. 02	Caching	Web
Mar. 07	Secondary Storage	Ch. 7 Web	Apr. 09	Secondary Storage	Ch. 7 Web
Apr. 14	Buses	Ch. 7 Web	Apr. 16	Test
Apr. 21	Buses	Ch. 7 Web	Apr. 23	Virtual Memory	Ch. 8 Web
Apr. 28	Virtual Memory	Ch. 8 Web	Apr. 30	Filesystems & OS	Web
Apr. 05	Filesystems	Ch. 9 Web	Apr. 07	Parallel Processing	Ch. 9 Web
May 12	463-01 Final 4-5:30PM