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. 18	Micro- architecture CPU	Ch. 5	Feb. 20	Test
Feb. 25	Instruction Set Architecture	Ch. 4 Web	Feb. 27	ISA Address  Modes	Ch. 4 Web
Mar. 03	Simulator	Ch. 4 Web	Mar. 05	Simulator	Ch. 4 Web
Mar. 10	Spring		Mar. 12	Break
Mar. 17	Memory	Ch. 6 Web	Mar. 19	Memory	Ch. 6 Web
Mar. 24	Caching	Web	Mar. 26	Caching	Web
Mar. 31	Secondary Storage	Ch. 7 Web	Apr. 02	Secondary Storage	Ch. 7 Web
Apr. 07	Filesystems & OSes	Web	Apr. 09	Test
Apr. 14	Virtual Memory	Ch. 7 Web	Apr. 16	Virtual Memory & I/O	Ch. 8 Web
Apr. 21	Buses	Ch. 7 Web	Apr. 23	Thanksgiving No classes	Read the book
Apr. 28	Data Transmission	Ch. 9 Web	Apr. 30	Data Transmission	Ch. 9 Web
May 5	436-01 Final 4-5:30PM