Preliminary ECS154A Class Outline
Lecture Topic Chapter Date
1 Introduction, History & Review Stallings, 1&2 September 28
2 Digital Design (Boolean,Gates) Design Book, 2&3 October 3
Disc Digital Design Tools (Maxplus Demo) October 4
3 Digital Design (Combinational) Design Book, 3&4 October 5
4 Digital Design (Combinational) Design Book, 6&5 October 10
Disc Digital Design (Combinational) Stallings, pp.110-116 October 11
5 Digital Design (Combinational) Design Book, 5 October 12
6 Digital Design (Sequential) Design Book, 7 October 17
Disc Digital Design (Sequential) Design Book, 7 October 18
7 Digital Design (Sequential) Design Book, 8 October 19
8 Digital Design(Sequential) Design Book, 8 October 24
Disc Digital Design (Sequential) Design Book, 8 October 25
9 Digital Design (Sequential) Design Book, 8 October 26
10 Digital Design (Sequential), Review October 31
Disc Digital Design, Review November 1
11 Transition Lecture November 2
12 Computer Components, Function Stallings, 3 November 7
Disc MIDTERM November 8
13 Interrupts, Busses Stallings, 3 November 9
14 Memory, Caches Stallings, 4 November 14
Disc Internal Memory Stallings, 5 November 15
15 Operating Systems Overview Stallings, 8 November 16
16 Memory Management Stallings, 8 November 21
Disc Memory Management Stallings, 8 November 22
Thanksgiving November 23
17 Memory Management Stallings, 8 November 28
Disc Input/Output Stallings, 7 November 29
18 External Memory Stallings, 6 November 30
19 External Memory Stallings, 6 December 5
Disc Loose ends, Review December 6
20 Loose ends, Review December 7
Final: Monday, December 11, 8:00 A.M.