University of Hartford

EE - 335 Digital Computer Organization

Professor: R. I. Brockett
email:  BROCKETT( vax)   or   MX%"76033,2570@compuserve.com"
Text:	"Structured Computer Organization" by Andrew Tanenbaum, 
	Third Edition, Prentice Hall, 1993

Tentative Schedule date 11/25/96

  Date          Chapter                 Home Problems
 9/04/96                 1                      5, 6
 9/11/96                 2                      2, 5
 9/18/96                 3                      12, 13 
 9/23/96                 A                      A-1, 7, 9  
                         B                      B-1, 2, 6
 9/25/96                 4                      7, 9, 10, 11, 12
10/02/96                 4                      15, 20, 22, 24
10/07/96                TEST
10/09/96                 5                      4, 6, 8, 10, 12
10/16/96                 5                      15, 25, 26
10/23/96                 6                      3, 7, 9, 14, 21
10/30/96                 6                      23, 25, 27
11/06/96                 7                      1,3,10,11,14,17,21
11/13/96                 7                      Project Assignment Below 
11/18/96                TEST
11/20/96                 8                      2, 7, 11
12/02/96                 8                      18, 25, 31, 38
12/09/96            Presentations
12/16/96             Final Exam

Project Assignment

Read an article of your choice in IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Network, IEEE Personal Communication or equivalent professional journal. Assume that you have joined computer related industrial group and that the Boss has assigned you the article. He has requested that you give a 15 minute talk on the article to the group and write a 5 page typed [or word prossor printed] paper covering the information in the article to be handed in at the presentation.

Design Problem

Provide a specifiction (Register used and microcode specificatiuon) for a chip to computer the average of 24 numbers in memory. These chips will be added to stock market computers.

Homework handed in later than one week after it is assigned will receive only one half credit !Date added: (9/9/96)

Evaluation Criteria

Tests Final Exam Design Problems Homework Project Total
40% 25% 10% 10% 15% 100%