Spring 2009 ECE 109 & CSCI 255 lecture schedule

If the UNCA campus is closed due to inclimate weather, class meeting must be canceled. Campus closings will be posted on the UNCA web page.

If UNCA is on the "late start schedule" due to inclimate weather, lectures will still start at 4:30 pm due to the constraints of the video broadcasting system.

Date Topic Reading References
Jan 8 UNCA not in session -- NO CLASS
Jan 13 ECE 109 introduction Course web pages PPT, PDF
Jan 14 CSCI 255 introduction
Late start: 11:45 to 12:25
Jan 15 Abstraction & binary Chapter 1 & Section 2.4 PPT, PDF, Web
Jan 20 Negative numbers Sections 2.1 to 2.3 XLS, Unicode
Jan 22 Arithmetic, Hex & FP Sections 2.5, 2.7.2 & 2.7.4
Jan 27 FP, ASCII, logical operators Sections 2.6 to 2.7.3
Jan 29 Transistors and gates Sections 3.1 to 3.2.3 PPT, PDF, XLS, PDF
Feb 3 Combinational logic Sections 3.2.4 to 3.3
Feb 5 Sequential logic Section 3.4 to 3.6.3
Feb 10 Problem Session at 12:50 pm
Feb 10 von Neumann Model Chapter 4 PPT
Feb 12 Exam 1 retrospective Sections 2.1 to 3.3 PPT
Feb 17 Exam 1: Sections 2.1 to 3.3
Feb 19 Data Path Section 3.7 & Chapter 4 HTML
Feb 24 Problem Session at 12:50 pm
Feb 24 LC-3 ISA Chapter 5 PPT, XLS, LC-3, HTML
Feb 26
Mar 3
Mar 5 HTML
Mar 10 Spring break in Asheville
Mar 12 Spring break in Asheville
Mar 17 LC-3 Assembler Chapter 7 PDF, HTML
Mar 19 Programming and Debugging Chapter 6 PPT, HTML
Mar 24 Problem Session at 12:50 pm
Mar 24 Exam 2 retrospective Sections 2.1 to 5.6 HTML
Mar 26 Exam 2
Mar 31 Problem Session at 12:50 pm
Mar 31 I/O Chapter 8 PPT
Apr 2 I/O & Subroutines Chapters 8 & 9 PPT, PDF, Green
Apr 7 Problem Session at 12:50 pm
Apr 7 Interrupts & Stacks Chapter 10 PDF, PPT
Apr 9 LC-3 example Assignment 4 PDF, TXT, ASM
Apr 14 Problem Session at 12:50 pm
Apr 14 Activation records Chapter 14 PPT, HTML
Apr 16 Exam 1 retrospective Chapters 2 to 9 (roughly) HTML
Apr 21 Problem Session at 12:50 pm
Apr 21 Exam 3
Apr 23 Computer Architecture I Selections from Wikipedia PPT
Apr 28 Course retrospective Chapters 2 to 10 & Section 14.3 HTML
Apr 30
May 5 Exam 4 -- 1:00-3:00, RH 217 & RH 223