Schedule

This schedule is tentative and subject to change. Slides will be posted after lectures.

NOTE: These slides are not meant to substitute for lectures.

We will use Byrant and O'Hallaron, Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective, 3/ed as the textbook for this class. Additional resources for this book and other course references:

• Available at the library as a reserve for 2 hours
• Book website for students

References for each lecture are in the slides.

Date	Topic
Wed Aug 28, 2019	Introduction
Mon Sep 02, 2019	No class (Labour Day)
Wed Sep 04, 2019	Bits and Integers
Mon Sep 09, 2019	Bitsets and Bitfields, Integer Arithmetic
Wed Sep 11, 2019	Integer Arithmetic, Real Numbers
Mon Sep 16, 2019	Floating Point
Wed Sep 18, 2019	Addresses and Instructions
Mon Sep 23, 2019	Assembly Language
Wed Sep 25, 2019	Functions
Mon Sep 30, 2019	Pointers and Arrays
Wed Oct 02, 2019	More Pointers and Arrays
Mon Oct 07, 2019	Review Class (Slides in Blackboard Announcement)
Wed Oct 09, 2019	Midterm
Mon Oct 14, 2019	No class (Fall break)
Wed Oct 16, 2019	Processor Pipeline
Mon Oct 21, 2019	The Processor Pipeline and Performance
Wed Oct 23, 2019	Caches and the Memory Hierarchy
Mon Oct 28, 2019	I/O, OS and Virtualization
Wed Oct 30, 2019	Virtual Memory
Mon Nov 04, 2019	Linking and Loading (Prof. Michael Scott)
Wed Nov 06, 2019	Using Virtual Memory
Mon Nov 11, 2019	Privilege Levels, System Calls and Processes
Wed Nov 13, 2019	Concurrency and Inter-process Communication
Mon Nov 18, 2019	Threading and Parallelism
Wed Nov 20, 2019	Networking
Mon Nov 25, 2019	Systems of Tomorrow
Wed Nov 27, 2019	No class (Thanksgiving)
Mon Dec 02, 2019	Introduction to accelerators
Wed Dec 04, 2019	Wrap-up
Mon Dec 09, 2019	Review Session 1 (In blackboard)
Wed Dec 11, 2019	Review Session 2 (In blackboard)
Mon Dec 16, 2019 8:30AM	Final exam