COMP2300: Lecture, Laboratory and Assignment Schedule

The course schedule is subject to change throughout the semester. Major changes will be annouced at lectures and on the course noticeboard.

Week	Date	Lectures			Laboratory / Home work	Assignments
Week	Date	Mon 12:00 MCC T2	Tue 14:00 MCC T2	Thu 17:00 MCC T3	Laboratory / Home work	Assignments
1	20 Feb	Introduction	D1: Digital Building Blocks	D2: Digital Building Blocks
2	27 Feb	D3: Digital Building Blocks	D4: Digital Building Blocks	C1: C Programming	D (home work)
3	6 Mar	C2: C Programming	C3: C Programming	C4: C Programming	1 - C	A1: released (D, C, & P)
4	13 Mar	P1: Assembly Level Machine Organisation		P2: Assembly Level Machine Organisation	2 - C
5	20 Mar	Canberra Day	P3: Assembly Level Machine Organisation	P4: Assembly Level Machine Organisation	P (home work and unsupervised)
6	27 Mar	P5: Assembly Level Machine Organisation	P6: Assembly Level Machine Organisation	P7: Assembly Level Machine Organisation	3 - P
7	3 Apr	P8: Assembly Level Machine Organisation	P9: Assembly Level Machine Organisation		4 - P	A1: Due (Wed 05/04, 12:00 noon) A2 released (P, M & O)
Mid Semester Break (Sat 8-April - Sun 23 April inclusive)
8	24 Apr		Anzac Day	M1: Memory Systems and Modern Machines
9	1 May	M2: Memory Systems and Modern Machines	M3: Memory Systems and Modern Machines	M4: Memory Systems and Modern Machines	5 - P & M
10	8 May	M5: Memory Systems and Modern Machines	O1: Operating System Concepts	O2: Operating System Concepts	M (unsupervised)
11	15 May	O3: Operating System Concepts	O4: Operating System Concepts	N1: Interconnection Networks	6 - M & O	A2: Due (Wed 17/05, 12:00 noon)
12	22 May	N2: Interconnection Networks			N (home work)
13	29 May		Exam Review

Introduction: Overview of course, assessment scheme, lectures. labs, contact hours etc
Digital Building Blocks: data representation, logic gates, bits, bytes, words, floating point, computer history, von Neumann architectures
C Programming: importance, data types, operatiors, sequence, selection, iteration, functions, pointers, I/O, arrays, files, sturcutres, macros, style, dangers.
Assembly Level Machine Organization: PeANUt, fetch, decode, execute, addressing modes, machine language, conditions, arrays, stacks, procedures, interrupts, traps
Memory Systems and Modern Machines: memory hierarchy, virtual memory, page replacement, modern ISAs, virtual machines, latency, bandwidth, cache, interleaving, TLBs
Operating System Concepts: hiistory, functionality, design issues, processes, scheduling, protection, fair CPU, I/O, mouse, screens, disks, file systems, directories, Unix
Interconnection Networks: communication model, simple network, terminoligy and characteristics, switched/static, SAN/LAN/WAN, IP, ethernet/Infiniband/ATM, internetworking, modern high speed networks, GRID computing
Exam Review: overview of exam structure, any questions
Open Tutorials: available to take questions from students, no formal lecture or new material presented.

Fri Apr 28 12:20:48 EST 2006