====== Course Outline ======

The course outline is a guideline to topics that will be discussed in the course, and when they will be discussed:

===== Week 1 -- Week of Sept. 12=====

{{:chapter_1.pdf|}} Computer abstraction and performance

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===== Week 2 -- Week of Sept 19=====

Chapter 2 Part 1 {{:chapter_2_part_1.pdf|Introduction}} Chapter 2.1-2.3
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===== Week 3 -- Week of Sept 26=====

{{:chapter_2_part_2_integers_representation.pdf|}} Memory operation and number representation Chapter 2.4

{{:chapter_2_conditional_op.pdf|}} Chapter 2.7 and 


{{:chapter_2_procedure_calling.pdf|}} Chapter 2.8

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===== Week 4 -- Week of Oct 3=====

{{:chapter_2_part_3_instruction_set.pdf|Instruction set representation}} Chapter 2.5-6
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===== Week 5 -- Week of Oct 10=====

Addressing modes, starting the pr0ogram and ARMv7

<fc red> **Quiz 1 (Wednesday)** </fc> Quiz 1 covers up to 2.8

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===== Week 6 -- Week of Oct 17=====

<fc red> **LAB Test 1** </fc>  here is last year {{:lab_test_1_a.pdf|lab test 1}}
***//**Wednesday Oct 19 class is canceled**//**

**LAB TEST IS IN THE LAB (MONDAY and TUESDAY)**

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===== Week 7 -- Week of Oct 24=====

{{:chapter_2_compilation.pdf|Compilation}}

<fc red> **Midterm (Wednesday)** </fc>
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===== Week 8 -- Week of Oct 31=====

Chapter 3 Arithmetic operations {{:chapter_3_int.pdf|Integers}} and {{:chapter_3_float.pdf|floats}}


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===== Week 9 -- Week of Nov 7=====

A simple {{:chapter_4_op.pdf|ALU}}

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===== Week 10 -- Week of Nov 14 =====

<fc red> **Quiz 2 (Wednesday)** </fc>  solution to  {{:hw2_sol.pdf|assignmnet 2 solution}}
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===== Week 11 -- Week of Nov 21 =====

<fc red> ** LAB TEST 2** </fc>


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The lab will cover both assembly and Verilog. here is a sample of last year {{:lab_test_2_a.pdf|lab test}}. Note that his sample lab test covers only the Verilog part

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===== Week 12 -- Week of Nov 28 =====

<fc red> **Quiz 3 (Wednesday)** </fc>

The quiz is on Chapter 3 (integer and floating point operations).

===== Week 13 -- Week of Dec 5 =====


===== Final Exam =====

{{:quiz3_2021_2016_sol005.pdf|Quiz 3 solution}}

{{:sample_questions.pdf|sample questions}} please read the disclaimer at the beginning of the file 

here is the {{:sample_solutions.pdf|Answer}} to the previous sample questions