General

Instructor:	Chen-Nee Chuah
	3125 Kemper Hall
	Office Hours: Wed 4-5pm, Fri 2-3pm
Lectures:	M/W/F 1:10-2:00pm, moved to Surge III 1309
Lab Location:	Kemper 2107 or 2110
Teaching Assistants (TAs):	Samuel Cheung (shocheung at ucdavis.edu) Karthikram Rajadurai (krajadurai at ucdavis.edu) Christine Saundry (cmsaundry at ucdavis.edu)
TA Lab/Office Hours:	Samuel: Mon 2-5pm (2110 Kemper) Christine: Tue/Thu 2-3:30pm (2107 Kemper) Karthikram: Wed 12noon-1pm, Thu 12noon-2pm (2107 Kemper)
Class mailinglist:	eec70-f13@smartsite.ucdavis.edu
Note:	Please use chat/forum in SmartSite to post questions about the course and assignments for faster response. If you email the TAs/instructor (e.g., to discuss grading-related issues), please put "EEC70" in the subject title.

Prerequisite

• ECS30 or 35 Pass 1: Restricted to Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Computer Science and Engineering majors

Textbook

• Goodman and Miller, A Programmer's View of Computer Architecture, Oxford.

Overview

This course provides an introduction to computer architecture and assembly language programming. It covers how higher level programs are translated into machine language, the general structure of computers, the number systems, data representation, arithmetic and logical operations, data structures, procedures, and related topics.

A detailed course description can be found here

Grading

Important Dates

• Midterm: Monday, Oct 28, 2013 (in class)
• Final: Wednesday, Dec 11, 2013, 10:30am-12:30pm

Labotatory

Students can work in groups of two. You will be assigned a programming project approximately every 10 days. Typically that would be an assembly programming exercise using the SPIMSAL simulator. The simulator is available on the workstations in the ECE department. You can access the simulator via ssh from home.

There will be several TA supervised lab sessions every week, which will also serve as the TA office hours.