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