On this page you will find information about the course "Computersystemen en -architectuur" (1BINF-032) for the first semester of the 2010-2011 academic year at the University of Antwerp.

This page is written in English for the benefit of foreign Erasmus students.

This course consists of interwoven two parts:

• Computer systems (1B INF (mandatory), 2B WIS (optional course) and 3B WIS (optional course))
• Computer architecture (1B INF (mandatory), 2B WIS (optional course), 3B WIS (optional course))

In each lab session, you will be given some exercises (Computer Systems) and/or a project (Computer Architecture). All exercises are made individually, projects are solved in groups of two students.

After each lab session, a new "assignment" is enabled on Blackboard, with a strict deadline. You submit your solution of the exercises before the deadline (typically one week after the lab session). You submission must have these characteristics:

• Fill in all solutions to the exercises in the file oefeningen.html. Each solution consists of text, screenshots and/or hyperlinks to files (i.e. scripts, MIPS-files, ...).
• Put all your files in a tgz archive. The name of that archive consists of your last and first name, without spaces. If, for example, your name is Jan De Smedt, the file name of your archive must be DeSmedtJan.tgz.

In each lab session, you will work on a project in pairs of two students. Projects build on each other, to converge into a unified whole at the end of the semester. During the semester, you will be evaluated three times. At these evaluation moments, you will present your solution of the past projects by giving a demo and answering some questions. You will immediately receive feedback, which you can use to improve your solution for the following evaluations.

For every project, you submit a small report of the project you made by filling in verslag.html completely. A report typically consists of 1000 words and a number of drawings/screenshots. Again, put all your files in a tgz archive. The name of that archive consists of your last and first name, without spaces. If, for example, your name is Jan De Smedt, the file name of your archive must be DeSmedtJan.tgz.

The HTML forms you will need for the solutions (right click, save as):

• oefeningen.html
• verslag.html

You have to adapt the HTML-code manually (i.e., in notepad) to fill in the forms. A good HTML tutorial can help you with this. Remark: in the forms, the <u> element for underlining is redefined to "overline". This way, you can express NOT in Boolean algebraic expressions: e.g., NOT A OR B becomes A+B. Unfortunately, double overline is not possible. Of course, you can always use the NOT A OR B notation.

Lectures:		Thursday	08:30 -- 10:30		week 2-6, 8-11, 13		G0.10 (mostly Computer Systems)
		Friday	08:30 -- 10:30		week 1-6, 8-11		G0.10 (mostly Computer Architecture)
Lab sessions:		Tuesday	13:45 -- 15:45		week 2-5, 7-13		G0.25

For 1 BAC Computer Science computer systems is a part of the mandatory course Computersystemen en -architectuur (1BINF-032) (9 credits).

For 2/3 BAC Mathematics computer systems is a part of the optional course Computersystemen en -architectuur (1BINF-0321) (6 credits).

• Book: David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy. Computer Organization and Design, the Hardware/Software Interface. Fourth Edition. Morgan Kaufmann. 2008.
• Lecture slides: available on Blackboard.

Week 2 (October 5, 2010 13:45): Introduction to Unix

Introduction session on Unix commands. The use of Unix Shell Commands is explained.

Material:

• Slides Introduction
• Slides Introduction to UNIX
• Exercises

Week 3 (October 12, 2010 13:45): Regular Expressions and Sed

Introduction and exercises on regular expressions and sed.

Material:

• Slides
• Exercises

Week 4 (October 19, 2010 13:45): UNIX Scripting

Introduction and exercises on UNIX Scripting.

Material:

• Slides
• Exercises

Week 5 (October 26, 2010 13:45): vi

Introduction on vi.

Material:

• Slides

Week 8 (November 16, 2010 13:45): Data representation

Exercises on data representation

Material:

• Slides
• Exercises

Week 9 (November 23, 2010 13:45): MIPS

Exercises on MIPS

Material:

• Slides
• Exercises

Week 11 (December 7, 2010 13:45): Stacks and subroutines

Exercises on MIPS Stacks and subroutines

Material:

• Exercises

Week 12 (December 14, 2010 13:45): Recursion

Exercises on MIPS Recursion

Material:

• Exercises

Lectures:		Thursday	08:30 -- 10:30		week 2-6, 8-11, 13		G0.10 (mostly Computer Systems)
		Friday	08:30 -- 10:30		week 1-6, 8-11		G0.10 (mostly Computer Architecture)
Lab sessions:		Tuesday	16:00 -- 18:00		week 2-5, 7-13		G0.25

For 1 BAC Computer Science computer architecture is a part of the mandatory course Computersystemen en -architectuur (1BINF-032) (9 credits). They will follow the standard program.

For 2/3 BAC Mathematics computer architecture is a part of the optional course Computersystemen en -architectuur (1BINF-0321) (6 credits). They will follow a more limited program.

• Book: David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy. Computer Organization and Design, the Hardware/Software Interface. Fourth Edition. Morgan Kaufmann. 2008.
• Lecture slides: available on Blackboard.

Week 3 (October 12, 2010 16:00): Gates and Wires

Introduction to Logisim and the use of gates.

Material:

• Project assignment

Week 4 (October 19, 2010 16:00): Adders

Build an 8-bit adder (ripple carry adder and carry lookahead adder).

Material:

• Project assignment

Week 5 (October 26, 2010 16:00): ALU

Build a 16-bit ALU.

Material:

• Project assignment
• ALU_GroupXX.circ

Week 8 (November 16, 2010 16:00): FSM

Build a Finite State Machine for a traffic light.

Material:

• Project assignment

Week 9 (November 23, 2010 16:00): Datapath (1)

Build a program counter and a datapath.

Material:

• Project assignment
• Rassemble.py (New version!)
• myProgram.rasm (New version!)

Week 11 (December 7, 2010 16:00): Datapath (2)

Add branch, jump and immediate instructions to the instruction set.

Material:

• Project assignment
• R2assemble.py (New version!)
• loop.rasm

Week 12 (December 14, 2010 16:00): Using the Datapath

Write programs to run on your datapath.

Material:

• Project assignment