Instructor
Gary M. Zoppetti, Ph.D.
Office: Roddy 134
Office Hours and Contact Info: cs.millersville.edu/~gzoppetti

Final
Section 01: Thu, 12/12; 10:15 — 12:15 pm
Section 02: Fri, 12/13; 10:15 — 12:15 pm

Syllabus and Assignments

• Syllabus
• Unless otherwise specified, a due date of X means the assignment is due by 11:59 pm on day X. Times are strictly enforced by the grading system, and there are NO grace days! Only the LATEST submission will be graded.
• Reading
  • Tour of Computer Systems (1)
  • Representing and Manipulating Information (2)
  • Machine-Level Representation of Programs (3)
  • Processor Architecture (4.1 – 4.4)
  • Memory Hierarchy (6.3 – 6.6)
• Assignments
  • Assignment 0: Layers (Intro); due Wed, 09/04. Assignment 0.

  • Assignment 1: IAS (History, Assembly, Machine Code); due Thu, 09/12. Assignment 1.

  • Assignment 2: Performance (Quantifying Performance); due Mon, 09/23. Assignment 2.

  • Assignment 3: Exam 1 Review; due Mon, 09/30 (for discussion, not to submit). Assignment 3.

  • Assignment 4: Data (Integer/FP Representations and Operations); due Wed, 10/16. Assignment 4.

  • Assignment 5: Exam 2 Review; due Mon, 11/04 (for discussion, not to submit). Assignment 5.

  • Assignment 6: Bomb (Assembly and Reverse Engineering); due Mon, 11/18. Assignment 6. Obtain my GDB init file.

  • Assignment 7: Alu (Circuits, Logisim-evolution, Building an ALU); due Fri, 11/29. Assignment 7.

  • Assignment 8: Exam 3 Review (not for submission). Assignment 8.

Useful Links

• Lecture Notes.
• My Code Samples.
• Problem Set Requirements.
• Autolab. For submitting your assignments.
• Getting Started with Autolab CLI.

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• IAS Instruction Set.
• Cache Simulator.

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• Godbolt. Online Compiler Explorer.
• x86-64 Assembly Reference.
• Short x86 Reference.
• GDB Reference.
• x86 Assembly Wikibook*.

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• GNU Assembler (as).
• Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures: Software Developer's Manuals (Volumes 1, 2, 3, and Software Optimization Reference).
• x86 Opcode & Instruction Reference.
• Intel Instruction Latencies.
• Intel ARK. Intel processor information.

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• Logisim. Circuit design and simulation.
• Logisim-evolution. Updated version of Logisim.
• Anatomy of a Program in Memory. Good article on virtual address space layout.

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• Resources. Other helpful resources.