CS 2011 A Term 2003
Computer Organization and Assembly Language Programming

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What this course is about

The goal of CS 2011 is to provide students with knowledge about the structure and behavior of digital computers at several levels of abstraction, and to give students experience in solving problems using an assembly language. Recommended background and course topics are listed in the WPI undergraduate catalog course description

Course Objectives

• Understand the relationship between hardware and software on a modern digital computer
• Understand the ways different types of data are represented on a digital computer
• Become familiar with digital logic and its relationship to Boolean algebra
• Understand the fetch-decode-execute cycle in terms of registers, buses, and memory
• Understand the microprogram for a simple architecture and be able to write microcode to implement a machine instruction
• Be able to write, test, debug, and document machine language programs
• Be able to write, test, debug, and document assembly language programs
• Understand the assembly and linking processes
• Understand I/O processing at the device level for a simple I/O device
• Understand the differences between polling and interrupt-driven I/O

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Staff

Instructor: Glynis Hamel

Teaching Assistants: Wei Peng, Yali Zhu

Senior Assistants: Kevin Menard, Russell Souza

Office Hour Schedule

(Note: TA office hours are held in FL A22 (Fuller basement). Glynis Hamel's office hours are held in FL 132.)




Day/Time

9:00

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Monday

Mrs. Hamel

Mrs. Hamel

Wei

Wei

Yali

Yali

Tuesday

Russell

Russell

Kevin

Kevin

Kevin

Kevin

Wednesday

Wei

Wei

Thursday

Mrs. Hamel

Mrs. Hamel

Yali

Yali

Russell

Russell

Friday




"Coffee with Mrs. Hamel"

I will have my morning cup of coffee in the Campus Center Lounge every Friday morning during A-term from 9:30 - 10:30am. Please join me! We can use this time
• as an informal office hour, or
• to discuss any general concerns or suggestions you have for the course, or
• as a time to relax at the end of the week
I hope to see you there.

Class Discussion Board and Email

A discussion board for CS 2011 has been set up on myWPI . All students enrolled in the course have access to this discussion board. You may post questions about the course, and see the answers to questions posed by other students in the course. You should visit the discussion board on a daily basis.

If you have a question regarding your grades in the course, please send email to cs2011_ta@cs.wpi.edu. Mail sent to this address goes to the instructor and to the TAs. Include your section number in all correspondence.

The instructor's email address is ghamel@cs.wpi.edu. Please restrict your use of my personal email address to issues of a confidential nature. You will get a quicker response if you post your questions to the class discussion board.

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Lecture and Lab Times

Lectures meet MTRF from 12:00-12:50   in OH 107

Labs meet on Wednesdays in HL 230 according to the following schedule:

Section	Time
A01	10-10:50
A02	2-2:50
A03	11:00-11:50
A04	3:00-3:50

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Textbook, Software, and Authors' Website

Textbook (required): Patt, Yale N., and Sanjay J. Patel, Introduction to Computing Systems: From Bits & Gates to C & Beyond, 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill Publishers, 2003

Software: We will be using the LC-3 simulator, which can be downloaded from the authors' website.

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Grading

The maximum number of points that can be earned in the course is 1000.

Exams (540 points)

Three exams will be given. Exams are tentatively scheduled for Sept 15, Sept 30, and Oct 16. Each exam will be worth 180 points. You must have a passing average on the exams in order to pass the course. (A passing average on the exams is usually between 60% - 65%. We may lower this threshold if the exam averages are low; the threshold will not be raised).

Exams are closed-book, closed-notes. You may bring in one sheet of notes (one paper, 8.5" x 11.5", both sides) to each exam. You may not use any computers, calculators, cellphones, or other electronic devices during the exams.

There are no makeups for exams. Please note that you are expected to take all three exams - no exam grades will be dropped. Absence from an exam will be excused only for medical or emergency reasons. A note from your doctor or from the Office of Academic Advising will be required. In such cases your final grade will be calculated without taking the missed exam into account.

Homework (360 points)

Five homework assignments will be given (some of the homework assignments will be due in two parts). Homework will be due at 11:59 pm on the due date (except for Homework 1 and Homework 2, which will be due in class at 12 noon on the due date). Homework assignments will be worth between 30 and 60 points, for a total of 360 points. No extra credit or makeup assignments will be given.

Labs and In-class Group Work (100 points)

Six labs will be given during conference sections on Wednesdays. To get credit for a lab you must attend at your scheduled time, actively work on the assignment during the lab period, and use turnin to turn in your work at the end of the lab period. Each lab will be worth 10 points. You will not get credit for a lab unless you attend the section for which you are registered. No Exceptions! There are no makeups for labs.

Several times during the term we will take a few minutes of class time for in-class group work. This will consist of one or two questions related to recently-covered lecture material or homework problems. Each group assignment will be worth 10 points. There are no makeups for group assignments.

The total of your best 10 lab grades/group assignment grades will be added to your final average to account for 10% of your final grade.

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Academic Honesty Policy

Please read WPI's Academic Honesty Policy.

Labs and In-class group work

Collaboration is encouraged for in-class group work, and for lab assignments that are not directly related to homework.

Exams and Homework

Exams and homework are to be done individually. You are encouraged to talk with others in a general way about homework assignments (what approach to take, for example), but any work you submit for grading must be your own. Some examples of situations that would be considered academically dishonest are
• two or more students write the solution or part of the solution to a homework assignment together
• all or part of a solution to a homework assignment is copied from another student (with or without that other student's consent)
• all or part of a solution to a homework assignment is copied from a book, journal, or website
• providing all or part of a solution to a homework assignment to another student

If you receive help from another student or an outside source, that student or source must be acknowledged in the documentation accompanying your submitted work.

Cheating will not be tolerated. If you are unsure whether a given activity would constitute cheating, ask the instructor. Violations of the Academic Honesty Policy can result in an NR for the course, and violators will be subject to the procedures outlined in section 5 of the WPI Judicial Policy.

Late Policy

Late assignments will not be accepted without prior permission from the instructor. Exceptions will not be granted for any reason during the last 24 hours before an assignment due date. (Start your homework early!)

Homework Submission Policy

Homework (except Homework 1 and Homework 2) must be submitted using the Unix turnin program. Homework submitted by any other means (paper, CD, email, etc.) will receive a grade of zero.

Students with Disabilities

Students with disabilities who believe that they may need accomodations in this class are encouraged to contact the Disability Services Office (DSO) as soon as possible to ensure that such accomodations are implemented in a timely fashion. The DSO is located in Daniels Hall.

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Schedule

Note: the instructor reserves the right to change the order of topics or the dates of the exams, if necessary.

Week	Reading	Topics	Assignments
Aug 28-29	Chapter 1 Chapter 2	Course overview Numbering systems Representations of signed integers	Homework 1 (due: Friday, 9/5)
Sept 1 - 5	Chapter 3	Floating point representation Boolean Algebra Logic gates Combinational circuits Karnaugh Maps	Lab 1, Wed 9/3 HW1 due Friday, 9/5 Homework 2 (due: Friday, 9/12)
Sept 8-12	Chapter 4	Simplification of circuits More combinational circuits Sequential circuits Memory organization Instruction execution cycle	Lab 2, Wed 9/10 HW2 due Friday, 9/12 Sample Exam 1 questions Sample Exam 1 answers
Sept 15-19	Chapter 5	Machine code instructions Microprogramming ISA - operate instructions ISA - data movement instructions Addressing modes	Exam 1 Monday, 9/15 Lab 3, Wed 9/17 Homework 3 (Part1) (due: Tuesday, 9/23) Homework 3 (Part2) (due: Friday, 9/26)
Sept 22-26	Chapters 6, 7, 8.1 - 8.4 Lecture 16 objectives Lecture 17 objectives	ISA - control instructions LC-3 Assembly Language Assembling/linking Device-level I/O Polling	HW3 (Part1) due Tuesday, 9/23 Lab 4, Wed 9/24 HW3 (Part2) due Friday, 9/26 Homework 4 (due: Friday, 10/3) Sample Exam 2 questions Sample Exam 2 answers
Sept 29 - Oct 3	Chapter 9 Lecture 18 objectives Lecture 19 - Exam Lecture 20 objectives Lecture 21 objectives	Traps Subroutines	Exam 2, Tuesday, Sept 30 Lab 5, Wed 10/1 HW4 due Friday, 10/3 Homework 5 (Part1) (due: Friday, 10/10) Homework 5 (Part2) (due: Tuesday, 10/14)
Oct 6-10	Chapters 10, 8.5 Lecture 22 objectives Lecture 23 objectives Lecture 24 objectives Lecture 25 objectives	Stack Stack examples Recursion - example Interrupt processing	Lab 6, Wed 10/8 Sample Exam 3 questions Sample Exam 3 answers HW5 (Part 1) due Friday, 10/10
Oct 13-16	Appendices C, B Lecture 26 objectives Lecture 27 objectives	Microarchitecture From LC-3 to IA-32 (time permitting)	HW5 (Part 2) due Tuesday, 10/14 hw5part1.asm trap30.asm init30.asm Exam 3, Thursday, Oct 16


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