Preliminary ECS154A Class Outline
Lecture Topic Chapter Date
1 Introduction & History Stallings Chs 1,2 April 1
2 Digital Design (Boolean Logic) Design Book 2 April 4
Disc Digital Design Tools (Maxplus Demo) April 4
3 Digital Design (Gates) Design Book 3 April 6
4 Digital Design (Combinational) Design Book 4 April 8
5 Digital Design (Combinational) Design Book 6 April 11
Disc Digital Design (Combinational) Design Book 5 April 11
6 Digital Design (Combinational) Design Book 5 April 13
7 Digital Design (Combinational) Stallings, 5.2 April 15
8 Digital Design (Sequential) Design Book 7 April 18
Disc Digital Design (Sequential) Design Book 7 April 18
9 Digital Design (Sequential) Design Book 8 April 20
10 Digital Design (Sequential) Design Book 8 April 22
11 Digital Design (Sequential) Design Book 8 April 26
Disc Digital Design (Sequential) Design Book 8 April 26
12 Digital Design (Sequential) Design Book 8 April 28
13 Digital Design (Sequential) Design Book 8 April 30
14 Digital Design (Sequential) Design Book 8 May 2
Disc Review May 2
15 MIDTERM May 4
16 Transition Lecture May 6
17 Computer Components, Function Stallings Ch 3 May 9
Disc Interrupts, Busses Stallings Ch 3 May 9
18 Memory, Caches Stallings Ch 4 May 11
19 Caches Stallings Ch 4 May 13
20 Caches Stallings Ch 4 May 16
Disc Internal Memory Stallings Ch 5 May 16
21 Operating Systems Overview Stallings Ch 8 May 18
22 Memory Management Stallings Ch 8 May 20
23 Memory Management Stallings Ch 8 May 23
Disc Memory Management Stallings Ch 8 May 23
24 Memory Management Stallings Ch 8 May 25
25 Input/Output Stallings Ch 7 May 27
26 External Memory Stallings Ch 6 June 1
27 External Memory Stallings Ch 6 June 3
28 Unknown Stallings Ch 5 June 6
Disc June 6
30 Review for Final June 8
Final: Saturday, June 11, 10:30 A.M.