Course Outline

This schedule will change over the course of the semester. For up-to-date listings of deadlines, refer to:
http://www.ece.uiuc.edu/~ece291/class-information/class-outline.html

Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
Tue, Aug 25	Wed, Aug 26	Thr, Aug 27: First day of class Lecture 1: Course goals; History; Review of 2's complement and base conversion HW0 assigned MP0 assigned Reading: Hyde: Art of Assembly: Forward and Sections: 1.0-1.3, 1.7
Tue, Sep 1: Lecture 2: Computer System Architecure; 80x86 registers, memory, periphials; Hints for MP0 Reading: Hyde: Art of Assembly: Sections: 3.0-3.1, 3.3.1-3.3.4, 1.11, 4.2-4.3, 4.5 Reading: ECE291 Lab Manual: Table of contents, Sections 1, 2-1-* and 2-2 HW0 Due (5pm, on-line)	Wed, Sep 2:	Thr, Sep 3: Lecture 3: Using registers; Assembly Opcodes; Complex addressing modes. Reading: Hyde: Art of Assembly: Sections: 3.3.5-3.3.13, 4.1, 4.4, 4.6-4.8, 6.3 HW1 assigned MP0 Due (5pm, in lab)
Tue, Sep 8: Lecture 4: Logical and Shifting Operations, Math operations. Overflows & carries, flags settings. Reading: Hyde: Art of Assembly: Sections: 1.4-1.6, 1.8-1.9, 6.5.1-6.5.5 Reading: Lab Manual, Section 4-1 & Appendix C MP1 assigned	Wed, Sep 9:	Thr, Sep 10: Lecture 5: Branching; Numerical comparisons; Loop/branch paradigms in linear code. Reading: Hyde: Art of Assembly: Sections: 6.1, 6.6, 6.9, 6.11 Lecture 6: Program organization, Assembly and debugging techniques, MASM directives; Lab Manual: Sections 4-2, 4-3, 4-4, & 5-1 HW1 Due (5pm, on-line)
Tue, Sep 15: Lecture 7: Multiplication; Division; MACROs HW2 assigned Reading: Hyde: Art of Assembly: Sections: 6.5.6-6.5.7, 8.14, 8.18	Wed, Sep 16: MP1 Due (5pm, in lab)	Thr, Sep 17: Lecture 8: The stack: Implementation, PUSH & POP operations, direct access, procedures, recursion Reading: Hyde: Art of Assembly: Sections: 6.3.5, 11.9
Tue, Sep 22: Discuss MP2: RSA Encoding Lecture 10: High-level languages; Combining C with ASM: (assemble, compile, link, and run) Reading: Lab Manual: Section 6 (C Programming) MP2 assigned HW2 Due (5pm, on-line)	Wed, Sep 23:	Thr, Sep 24: More discussion on MP2: RSA Encoding Lecture 10: (continued): High-level languages; Combining C with ASM
Tue, Sep 29: Lecture 12: Text Mode Video Reading: Lab Manual: Section 10-1 (Text mode) Reading: Hyde: Art of Assembly: Sections: 23.1-23.3	Wed, Sep 30: MP2 (part 1) Due 30/50 points (5pm, in lab)	Thr, Oct 1: Lecture 13: Table-Lookup Functions, Jump Tables, Interrupt Vectors, Hash Functions Reading: Hyde: Art of Assembly: Sections: 9.8, 13.1-13.2
Tue, Oct 6: Lecture 14: Interrupt-Driven I/O, Hardware Interrupt Service Routines (ISR's), Terminate & Stay Resident (TSR) Programs Reading: Hyde: Art of Assembly: Sections: 3.5, 13.3.7.2, 17.1, 17.5 Reading: Lab Manual: Section 7 Exam I Review	Wed, Oct 7: MP2 (part 2) Due 50/50 points (5pm, in lab) Hard deadline! No late credit.	Thr, Oct 8: EXAM I (in class)
Tue, Oct 13: Lecture 15: Interrupt Topics: Timer Demo, Critical Sections, 8259 PIC, Scheduling Reading: Hyde: Art of Assembly: Sections: 17.4 Lab Manual, Section 9 HW3 assigned MP3 assigned	Wed, Oct 14:	Thr, Oct 15: Lecture 16: PC Hardware I/O with Ports: IN/OUT, 8253 Timer, Parallel Port, Joystick Reading: Hyde: Art of Assembly: Sections: 3.1.3, 3.4, 6.7, 21.1-21.3 Reading: Lab Manual: Section 12
Tue, Oct 20: Lecture 16: PC Hardware I/O with Ports: IN/OUT, 8253 Timer, Parallel Port, Joystick (continued)	Wed, Oct 21: MP3 (part 1) Due 25/50 points (5pm, in lab)	Thr, Oct 22: Lecture 17: Video Graphics using efficient instructions for data transfer. HW3 Due (FRI: 5pm, on-line)
Tue, Oct 27: Lecture 19: Drawing lines; Bresenham's Line Algorithm. Reading: Hyde: Art of Assembly: Sections: 6.8, 15.1 Reading: Lab Manual, Section 4-5 Lecture 22: Bitmap graphic:, PCX files, BMP files, Programming Techniques Reading: Lab Manual, Sections 10-2 ... 10-5 HW4 assigned	Wed, Oct 28: MP3 (part 2) Due 50/50 points (5pm, in lab)	Thr, Oct 29 Lecture 22z Direct Memory Access. DMA interface to audio hardware. Lecture 22x: PC Sound card, DSP Programming, FM Synthesis, Mixer Control
Tue, Nov 3: Lecture 22: Bitmap graphic:, PCX files, BMP files, Programming Techniques (cont) MP4 assigned	Wed, Nov 4: HW4 Due (5pm, on-line)	Thr, Nov 5 More discussion about MP4 Graphics Assign Final Project
Tue, Nov 10: Lecture 11: Floating Point Arithmetic. IEEE-754 & the 80x87 FPU Final Project demos	Wed, Nov 11:	Thr, Nov 12: Lecture 11 (cont): Programming with the 80x87 FPU Lecture 23: Computer Networking: Ethernet, TCP/IP, NetBios Programming Final Project Signup & Summary Due (5pm, on-line) MP4 Due (Fri, 5pm, in lab)
Tue, Nov 17 Exam II Review HW5 assigned	Wed, Nov 18	Thr, Nov 19 EXAM II (in class)
Tue, Nov 24: Lecture 24: Instruction-level Parallelism: MMX and 3D-NOW Reading: Browse Intel MMX and AMD K6 MMX manuals. Review Exam II Results and Solutions Project Writeup Due (5pm, in lab)	Wed, Nov 25: Thanksgiving break	Thr, Nov 26: Thanksgiving
Tue, Dec 1: Lecture 26: Remarks on Final Project and Final Exam In-class Final Project Demo Examples How NOT to present a final project Guest Lecture: Prof. Michael Loui: Engineering Ethics There will be a final exam question from this lecture	Wed, Dec 2: HW5 Due (5pm, on-line)	Thr, Dec 3: Lecture 27: Last Lecture of semester Advanced Topics in Computer system design Advanced classwork beyond ECE291 Teaching and Research opportunities
Tue, Dec 8: Final Project Program DUE! (`\PROGRAM`) (9am, in lab) Final Project Demos (Session 1) (in class)	Wed, Dec 10:	Thr, Dec 10: Final Project Demos (Session 2) (in class) Final Project Submission (5pm, in lab) Final Project Demos (Session 3) (7pm, in class)
Review Session (Sunday, Dec. 13, 1998: 7pm; Room 151 Everitt Lab) Final Exam: (Thurday, Dec. 17, 1998: 8am - 11am; Room 151 Everitt Lab)