UNC Comp120, Fall 2002

Professor Lars Nyland, Sitterson 239

Office Hours, Mon. 11-12, Tue. 11-12.

Course Description Textbook Schedule Teaching Assistants
Prerequisite, COMP 114. Digital logic, circuit components. Data representation, computer architecture and implementation, assembly language programming. cod Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, Second Edition, David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy, 1997, 993 pages, cloth, $84.95, ISBN 1-55860-428-6

Available at the bookstore, or from any online source (Amazon, etc.)

Mondays and Wednesdays, 9:30-10:45, Sitterson 014 Bingzha Yang and Tong Chao, seated in Sitterson 045

Handout #1: Number Systems. This is a short write-up demonstrating addition and multiplication in base 5, 6, 2, 8, and 16 (those last 3 are binary, octal and hexadecimal). There is also a short description of negative number representations.