Computer Systems Organization (Spring 2026)

[KR] refers to Kernighan/Richie's book.
[BO] refers to Bryant/O'Hallaron's book.
[PH] refers to Patterson/Henessy's book.

Date

Lecture

Reading

1/21 Wed

Overview [note]

[PH] 1

1/23 Fri

1/26 Mon

Bits,Bytes,Ints [note]

[PH]2.4 or [BO]2.1-2.3

1/28 Wed

Floats [note]

[PH]3.5 or [BO]2.4

1/30 Fri

2/2 Mon

Floats continued [note]

[KR]1-4

2/4 Wed

C: overview, bitwise [note]

[KR]5

2/6 Fri

2/9 Mon

C: pointers and arrays [note]

[KR]5

2/11 Wed

C: characters and strings [note]

[KR]5,7 [PH]2.9

2/13 Fri

2/16 Mon

Presidents' day (no class)

2/17 Tue

Legislative Monday
C: structs, malloc [note]

[KR]5,7 [PH]2.9

2/18 Wed

C: Program organization, I/O [note]

2/20 Fri

2/23 Mon

Machine Prog: Basics [note]

[BO] 3.1-3.5

2/25 Wed

Machine Prog: Basics cont [note]

[BO] 3.1-3.5

2/27 Fri

3/2 Mon

Machine Prog: Control [note]

[BO] 3.6

3/4 Wed

Machine Prog: Procedures [note]

[BO] 3.7

3/6 Fri

3/9 Mon

Machine Prog: Data [note]

[BO] 3.8-3.9

3/11 Wed

Machine Prog: SegFault and Buffer Overflow [note]

[BO]3.10

3/13 Fri

3/16 Mon

Spring Break

3/18 Wed

Spring Break

3/20 Fri

3/23 Mon

midterm

3/25 Wed

Linking [note]

[BO]5.1-5.6

3/27 Fri

3/30 Mon

Dynamic Memory Allocation [note]

[BO] 9.9

4/1 Wed

Dynamic Memory Allocation Cont [note]

[BO] 9.9

4/3 Fri

4/6 Mon

Dynamic Memory Allocation Cont [note]

[BO] 9.9

4/8 Wed

Architecture: Overview [note]

[PH]1.4-1.6, A.1-A.3

4/10 Fri

4/13 Mon

Architecture: ALU [note]

[PH]1.4-1.6, A.1-A.3

4/15 Wed

Architecture: Sequential Logic [note]

[PH]A.7-A.8, A.10

4/17 Fri

4/20 Mon

Architecture: Sequential impl [note]

[PH]4.1-4.4

4/22 Wed

Architecture: Seq cont, Pipelining [note]

[PH]4.1-4.4

4/24 Fri

4/27 Mon

Architecture: Pipelined impl [note]

[PH]4.5-4.7

4/29 Wed

Cache [note]

[PH] 5.1-5.4

5/1 Fri

5/4 Mon

Virtual Memory [note]

[PH] 5.1-5.4

5/6 Wed

Reading day (no class)

5/7 Thu

5/8 Fri

Final Exam