CENG 252 Computer Organization

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Lecture Announcements

  1-June-2004

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Your final exam is on Thursday, 3 June 2004, at 12:00.

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You are responsible from all topics covered in this course.

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The exam has two parts. The first part is the closed part, no notes and books. The second part is an open book and notes exam.
 

  18-May-2004
    
Midterm Exam II:

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You will have your second midterm exam on next Monday: 24 May 2004, starts at 11:00.

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You are responsible from assembly programming topics.

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The midterm will be open book and notes exam.

     Last Homework Assignment

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Here is your 5th and last homework assignment: HW5

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It is due on 27 May 2004, Thursday, between 14:00 - 16:00 pm in the LAB. No late assignment will be accepted.
 

  7-May-2004

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Here is your 4th assignment and it is due on 13 May 2004, Thursday, between 14:00 - 16:00 pm in the LAB. No late assignment will be accepted.

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You should make a program demo to your assistant Engin Tozal in the lab by running your program until the due date and time.

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If you don’t do this demo and answer your TA’s questions in the lab, your homework will not be graded, and you will get a 0 grade.

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Problem: Write an assembly program that first prompts the following menu:

1-Find Average
2-Find Maximum
3-Find Minimum
4-Exit

User selects an option by entering its numeric value. If the number entered is 4, the program simply terminates, otherwise the program asks the user to enter 5 numbers and puts them into an array. The program then performs the operation that user has requested and prints the result out on the display. The program again prompts the user menu.
 

  27-April-2004

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This is your 3rd assignment and it is due on 4 May 2004, Tuesday, between 14:00 - 16:00 pm.

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You should make a program demo to your assistant Engin Tozal in the lab by running your program until the due date and time.

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If you don’t do this demo and answer your TA’s questions in the lab, your homework will not be graded, and you will get a 0 grade.

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Story:
Daphnodrome is an object which has existence in four-dimensional space. It is said that black-holes consists of infinite number of daphnodromes which has different dimensions. When a particle moves into a black hole even light photons; they are absorbed and do not turn back or pass the black holes. This is related to daphnodromes; because those daphnodromes which may be quite small are able to absorb photons or objects as huge as earth. When it absorbs an object it changes its dimensions. Hyper-volume is a metric used to give ideas about existence of daphnodrome in four dimensional spaces. And the hyper-volume formula is:

(dimension1 - dimension2) * (dimension2 + dimension3 + 1) / dimension4

Note: Hyper-volumes may be negative or positive values.

Problem:

Write an assembly program that prompts the user for four dimensions of a daphnodrome and then calculates and print-outs the hyper-volume of it.
 

  13-April-2004

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You will take your first midterm on next Monday, 19 April 2004, in class.

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The second hw assignment is due on 20 April 2004, Tuesday, until 5 pm. You will also show your programs to your TA in the lab.
 

  10-March-2004

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Here is your first homework assignment: HW1.

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It is due on 19 March 2004, Friday, until 5 pm.

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This is definitely an individual assignment. A team work will not be tolerated. If a similar solution is found in assignments, those will get a 0 grade!
 

  23-February-2004

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Welcome to CENG 252 Computer Organization! In this course you will learn the ISA level computer architecture using the assembly language of Intel x86 microprocessor family. We will also look at the components of microprocessor-based systems and the main hardware features of Intel x86 microprocessor family.

Course Materials    (Lecture Slides)

Lecture Slides

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Purpose: To allow better concentration in lecture by reducing note-taking pressure and to provide a study-aid before (unfortunately not this year) and after lecture.

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Disclaimers: (a) I may not follow these slides exactly in class. (b) Students are responsible for what I say in class. (c) Reading these slides is not a substitute for attending lecture.
 

 Date  Lecture  Topics Covered
 23/2  Overview
 Lec 1
Course Overview, Views of Computer Systems, Processor Based System, Processor, Memory, Input/Output, Interconnection: The Glue, Historical Perspective, Technological Advances.
 2/3
 Lec 2
Introduction to Memory Basics and Memory System Design: Introduction to Memory Basics, Memory Design with D Flip Flops, Memory System Design for Microprocessors, Designing Larger Memories.
 9/3

 Lec 3

Introduction to Microprocessor Architecture and Operation: Basic Microprocessor System Concepts, Microprocessor Architecture and Operation, Intel 8085 Microprocessor, 8085 Microprocessor Based System, Isolated I/O Using IN and OUT Instructions, Memory Mapped I/O, Programmable I/O and 8255. 
 22/3

 Lec 4

Introduction to Intel 80x86 Architecture: External Architecture of 8088/8086, Internal Architecture, Memory Architecture, I/O Operations
 29/3

 Lec 5

Elements of Assembly Language Programming: Assembly Language Statements, How to Assembly, Link, and Run a Program, Where are the Operands?: An Introduction to Addressing Modes.
 6/4

 Lec 6

Addressing Modes: 32-Bit and 16-Bit Addressing, Simple Addressing Modes, Direct Addressing Mode, Register Indirect Addressing Mode, Based and Indexed Addressing Modes, Based-Indexed Addressing Mode
 13/4

 Lec 7

Basic Instructions: Data Transfer Instructions, Integer Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Addition and Subtraction of Larger Numbers
 3/5

 Lec 8

Branching and Looping: Unconditional Jumps, Conditional Jumps, Compare Instructions and If Structures, Implementing Loop Structures, For Loops in Assembly Language, Arrays
 11/5

 Lec 9

Procedures: The 80x86 Stack, Procedure Body, Call and Return, Parameters and Local Variables, Call and Return, Parameters and Local Variables

 

Homeworks, Exams and Solutions

References

    History

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History of the Internet - A Timeline on the History of Everything

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The Transistor - The complete history of the transistor from the people who invented them. Be sure to do the what is it? part of this site.

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John Louis von Neumann - Discoverer of the von Neumann Architecture, the basis of todays CPU design.

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ENIAC - History of the ENIAC, as viewed from the John W. Mauchly Exhibition at the University of Pennsylvania, where ENIAC was developed.

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50 Year "Celebration" of ENIAC - A tribute page to ENIAC, who's birth arguably ushered in the Information Age. This was the 50 year celebration held in 1996.

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History of Microprocessors.
 

    X86

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Kip Irvine's list of assembly language resources.

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Intel Literature Center . From this site, you can download the complete X86 instruction set manual in PDF format.
 

    Logic Design

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Contemporary Logic Design, Randy H. Katz University of California Benjamin Cummings/Addison Wesley Publishing Company 1993.

 

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