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pageCSCI 255 meets Monday and Wednesday from 3:15 to 4:30. This schedule should be considered tentative.
| Date | Chapter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 12 | Chapter 1 | Introduction |
| Jan 19 | Chapter 2 | Data representation |
| Jan 24 | Chapter 2 | Arithmetic and floating point |
| Jan 26 | Snow! | |
| Jan 31 | Snow! | |
| Feb 2 | Chapter 2 | More arithmetic and some coding |
| Feb 7 | Chapter 3 | Boolean algebra I |
| Feb 9 | Chapter 3 | Boolean algebra II |
| Feb 14 | Chapter 4 | Logic gates |
| Feb 16 | Chapter 4 | Don't care with Karnaugh maps |
| Feb 21 | Chapter 5 | Adders |
| Feb 23 | Chapter 5 | Selectors and buses |
| Feb 28 | Chapter 5 | ROM and PLA |
| Mar 1 | Quiz 1 | Chapter 1 to Section 4.3 |
| Mar 13 | Chapter 6 | Flip-flops |
| Mar 15 | Chapter 6 | Sequential logic |
| Mar 20 | Chapter 6 | Finite state machines |
| Mar 22 | Chapter 6 | State encoding and minimization |
| Mar 27 | Chapter 7 | Registers |
| Mar 29 | Chapter 7 | Registers and RAM |
| Apr 3 | Chapter 7 | Building large RAM |
| Apr 5 | Chapter 7 | Datapaths |
| Apr 10 | More on FSM and espresso | |
| Apr 12 | Quiz 2 | Chapters 5 to 7 |
| Apr 17 | Chapter 9 | Quiz 2 briefing and Instruction set design |
| Apr 19 | Chapter 9 | Examples of instruction sets |
| Apr 24 | Chapter 9 | Caches and Pipelines |
| Chapter 9 | Caches | |
| May 1 | Chapter 9 | Superpipes and superscalar |
| May 3 | ???? | |
| May 8 | Final | everything |
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