CS 2011 B Term 2010
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 Outcomes

• Understand the relationship between hardware and software on a modern digital computer
• Convert different types of data into their binary representations
• Convert Boolean functions to digital logic diagrams
• Explain the fetch-decode-execute cycle in terms of registers, buses, and memory
• Explain 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 programs in a machine language and in an assembly language
• Describe the assembly and linking processes
• Write a device driver for a simple I/O device
• Be able to compare and contrast polling and interrupt-driven I/O
• Explain how cache memory and instruction pipelining can improve computer performance

Mapping of outcomes to CS Department Outcomes

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Staff

Instructor: Glynis Hamel (GH)

Teaching Assistant: Medhabi Ray (MR)

Senior Assistant: Eric Walston (EW)

Office Hour Schedule




Day/Time	10:00	11:00	12:00	1:00	2:00	3:00	4:00	5:00	6:00	7:00	8:00
Monday	GH (FL 132)							MR(FL A22)		EW (FL A22)	EW(FL A22)
Tuesday						GH (FL 132)
Wednesday					MR(FL A22)	MR(FL A22)					EW(FL A22)
Thursday								MR(FL A22)
Friday		EW(FL A22)			GH (FL 132)

(Glynis Hamel will also be available for office hours on Thursday by appointment)




Announcements, 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 should visit the discussion board and check the Announcements on myWPI on a daily basis.

If you have a question regarding your grades in the course, please send email to cs2011-staff *at* 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 *at* 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 9:00-9:50   in SL 104

Labs meet on Wednesdays according to the following schedule:

Section	Time	Location
B01	9 - 9:50am	KH 202
B02	10-10:50am	KH 202

The first lab is scheduled for Wednesday, November 10 (there are no labs on Oct 27 and Nov 3).

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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. A copy of the textbook is on reserve at the library. If you buy a used textbook, make sure you buy the 2nd edition.

(recommended) Tanenbaum, Andrew S., Structured Computer Organization 5/e, Pearson, 2006. Also on reserve at the library.

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

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Grading

Exams (50%)

Two exams will be given. Exams are tentatively scheduled for November 18 and December 16. You must have a passing average on the exams in order to pass the course. (A passing average on the exams is usually around 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. 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 recorded as Incomplete and you will be allowed to take a makeup exam the next time the course is offered.

Homework (40%)

Six homework assignments will be given. Written assignments (HW1 and HW2) will be due at the beginning of class (9am) on the due date. All other assignments will be electronically submitted and will be due at 5pm on the due date. No extra credit or makeup assignments will be given.

Labs (5%)

Labs will be given during conference sections on Wednesdays. To get credit for a lab you must attend at your scheduled time, sign the attendance sheet, 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 graded as either credit (1) or no credit (0). Your lab grades will be used to account for 5% of your final grade. You will not get credit for a lab unless you attend the section for which you are registered. There are no makeups for labs.

In-class assignments (5%)

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 assignment will be graded as either credit (1) or no credit (0). At the end of the term, five of these assignments will be chosen at random by the instructor, and these will count as 5% of your final grade. There are no makeups for in-class assignments.

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Academic Honesty Policy

Please read WPI's Academic Honesty Policy.

Labs and In-class assignments

Collaboration is encouraged for labs and in-class group work.

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
• all or part of a solution to a homework assignment is copied from a solution to an assignment that was given in a previous offering of the course
• providing all or part of a solution to a homework assignment to another student

If you receive general 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 homework will be accepted within 24 hours of the due date. Each student will be allowed one late submission without penalty. Beyond that, late homework will incur a 25 point (out of 100 points) penalty. Any homework turned in after the 24-hour grace period will receive a grade of zero. No extra credit or makeup homework assignments will be given.

Homework Submission Policy

Homework (except Homework 1 and Homework 2) must be submitted using the web-based turnin program. Homework submitted by any other means (paper, 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, Extra Notes
Oct 26 - 29	Chapters 1, 2 (Patt) Chapter 1, Appendix A, B (Tannenbaum)	Course overview Numbering systems Representations of signed integers Floating point representation	Lecture 1 objectives Lecture 2 objectives Lecture 3 objectives Homework 1 (due: Tuesday, 11/2)
Nov 1 - Nov 5	Chapter 3 (Patt) Chapter 3 (Tanenbaum)	Boolean Logic Logic gates Combinational circuits Circuit equivalence Clocks Sequential circuits Memory organization Performance improvements I - cache	Lecture 4 objectives Lecture 5 objectives Lecture 6 objectives Lecture 7 objectives Sequential circuit animation Homework 2 (due: Tuesday, 11/9)
Nov 8 - 12	Chapter 4, 5 (Patt)	Machine state Instruction execution cycle Machine code instructions Microarchitecture of the LC-3 LC-3 ISA - operate instructions LC-3 ISA - data movement instructions Addressing modes LC-3 ISA - control instructions	Lecture 8 objectives Lecture 9 objectives Lecture 10 objectives Lecture 11 objectives Lab 1, Wed 11/10 Homework 3, Part 1 (due: Tuesday, November 16)
Nov 15 - 19	Chapter 6, 7.1 - 7.2 (Patt)	LC-3 ISA - control instructions, cont. Performance improvements II - pipelining High-level constructs Assembly Language and pseudo-ops	Lecture 12 objectives Lecture 13 objectives Lecture 14 - Exam 1, Thursday, November 18 Lecture 15 objectives Sample Exam 1 (pdf file) Homework 3, Part 2 (due: Tuesday, Nov 23) Lab 2, Wed 11/17
Nov 22 - 23	Chapter 7.3 - 7.4, 8.1 - 8.4 (Patt)	Subroutines Device-level I/O Polling	Lecture 16 objectives Lecture 17 objectives Happy Thanksgiving! Homework 4 (due: Tuesday, 12/7)
Nov 29 - Dec 3	Chapter 9, 10, 14.3 (Patt) Chapter 7.3, 7.4 (Tanenbaum)	Trap routines The assembly process External assembly, linking Stack Parameter Passing Binary-to-ASCII	Lecture 18 objectives Lecture 19 objectives Lecture 20 objectives Lecture 21 objectives Program used to illustrate trap processing Recursion - example Lab 3 Wed, Dec 1
Dec 6 - 10	Chapter 8.5, Appendix B (Patt) Appendix C (C.1 - C.4) (Tanenbaum)	Introduction to interrupts Interrupt processing Intel 8088 processor Intel 8088 addressing Intel 8088 instruction set	Lecture 22 objectives Lecture 23 objectives Lecture 24 objectives Lecture 25 objectives Homework 5 (due: Tuesday, 12/14) Lab 4 Wednesday, Dec 8
Dec 13 - 16	Appendix B	Intel 8088 stack, activation records	Lecture 26 objectives Lecture 27 - Exam review/catch up Lab 5(Wednesday, December 15) Lecture 28 - Exam 2, Thursday, December 16 Sample Exam 2 (pdf)


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