Introduction to Digital Computers - Spring 2000

people

Dr. Guy Even
Office Hour: Monday 12-13 (Room 116, Elec. Eng.-Labs Building, best to coordinate meeting by email)

assistant:
Jacob Rotstein
email: jacobr@ecitele.com
Office Hour: Wed. 16-17, room 104, Elec. Eng.-Labs Building

place & time

Tuesdays 14-16, Room 134, Wolfson
Thursdays 14-16, Room 102, Handasa Kitot

Mid-Term Exam: April 12th, 15:00-17:00.
Final Exam: June 27th.
Moed Beit: July 27th.

syllabus & schedule

Schedule (postscript version here)

e-mail distribution list

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course material

Course material is posted as WORD or Postscript files.

• requirements - WORD file
• Assignment #1 - Xilinx Foundation exercise (Word file) formal specification
• Assignment #2 - Combinatorial Circuits (postscript file)
• Lecture notes on unsigned addition. (Gzipped postscript file [198KB].)
• Assignment #3 - Decoder, fanout, OR-tree (postscript file).
• Assignment #4 - Cyclic Shifters, Parallel Prefix Adder (postscript file).
• Assignment #5 - two's complement adder/subtractor, modifying the setup and hold times, illegal interconnections in synchronous circuits.
• Following students' request: mid-term exam from 1998.
• DLX simulator. We have two simulators: (1) Arnon Warshavsky's version runs in Excell. Excel file and readme. (2) A DLX simulator written in Saarbruencken DOS exe file. More DLX stuff appears in the RESA lab homepage.
• Assignment #6 - DLX ISA (postscript file).
• Assignment #7 - Memory bank organization, datapath design (postscript file).
• Assignment #8 - Control signals of the ALU & shifter, address computation (postscript file).
• Introduction to Interrupts - Hebrew (HTML file).
• Interrupts Handling On The DLX - hardware & software support (postscript file).
• Correctness Of Interrupts Handling On The DLX (postscript file).
• Assignment #9 - Interrupt handling (Hebrew questions are missing!).
• GRADES - Excel file

books and related lecture notes

1.

Lecture Notes: Dr. Ami Litman's Lecture Notes in Logic Design, CS Dept., Technion.

2.

The Complexity of Simple Computer Architectures, by Silvia M. Müller and Wolfgang J. Paul.

3.

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Second Edition John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson.

4.

Additional Resources for Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Second Edition. Contains simulators, lecture slides from various universities, and more.

5.

WWW Computer Architecture Home Page contains a list of books, publications, and various activities in Computer Architecture

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