Cosc 2P12 Winter 2024

Note:

Office Hours: By appointment.
Lecture time: Monday, Wednesday 15:30 to 17:00 STH216

Course OutLine

Mentoring and Supplemental Tutoring

The normal course of action to follow when a student wishes to obtain help with the lecture or assignment material is to first see the lab teaching assistant (TA). The teaching assistants are there to help students formulate correct implementations of the lecture material, this is normally referred to as help on the assignments. The duties of the teaching assistant are limited to guiding the student to a better understanding of the material. The teaching assistant is often confused with one who will write a working implementation for the student. This is not the case. It is the student who must strive to learn the material, only that way will understanding come. The teaching assistant will be there to guide those students who make the effort to learn.
This course has a course coordinator who will field questions from students. Students are requested to first consult the course coordinator should they have an administrative problem

If a problem with the understanding of lecture or assignment material is beyond the scope of the TA then the instructor will gladly help. Students who need help with material may come to the instructor during his office hours. There is normally an open door policy (when the door is open) in effect.
If a serious problem with the understanding of the material persists, the student may wish to seek a tutorial session with a TA. The TA will spend some time with individual students to review the material and aid in understanding. Tutorial size is usually limited to 2 people per session. To arrange for help, please email the TA, who will then set time aside for your needs.

Text

Your main text will be provided by zybooks. See below for subscription instructions.
All students will be required to enrol, 15% of your mark will be based on the exercises from then resource.

Option 1

1. Sign in or create an account at learn.zybooks.com
2. Enter zyBook code
3. Subscribe
A subscription is $64. Students may begin subscribing on Aug 21, 2023 and the cutoff to subscribe is Dec 16, 2023. Subscriptions will last until Jan 14, 2024

Option 2

Brock University bookstore can sell zybook subscriptions for this course.

If you are retaking the class, this should be of interest to you.

Course Material

This course will make use of simulation software for both the digital logic portion and the assembly portion of the course. The below software will be installed in the labs, however students are encouraged to download and install this software on their own computing systems. Both are open license software.

Logic Circuit - This is digital logic simulation software, and will be used
MARS - Mips Assembler and Runtime Simulator.

Assignments and Labs - Will be posted as they are finalized. Don't worry some of these links will be dead.

Week	Lectures	Text Book	Labs and Quizzes	Assignments
1	Introduction, information representation	1.1 to 1.7
2	General computer architecture, Number systems, Base conversion, addition and subtraction. IEEE Floating Point Converter	2.1 to 2.5
3	Basic Logic Gates, Truth Tables.	2.6 to 2.12	Lab 1	Assignment 1 (Logic Circuit)
4	Boolean Algebra and circuit reduction. Online Reduction Calculator.	3.1 to3.5	Lab 2
5	Basic Combinatorial Logic ALU design, and data path.	3.6 to3.12 4.1 to 4.2 4.4,5.1 to 5.4, and 5.6. 6.6,6.10	Lab 3	Assignment 2 (Logic Circuit)
6	Introduction of R2000/3000 machine. Intro to MIPS. s/w Interrupts,Programming patterns, if, loop,	7.1 to 7.6	Lab 4
7	Procedures, and stack operations	7.7 to 7.10, 8.1 to 8.2 8.6	Lab 5	Assignment 3 (MIPS assembly)
8	Procedures, and stack operations Continued SumN.asm SumN_1.asm fib.asm GlobalPointer	8.3, 8.4	Lab 6
9	Logical, shifting, Examples BitCount multiply LogicalOperations	Not in zybook	Lab 7 LetterGrade	Assignment 4 (MIPS assembly)
10	Floating point operations. Cosine.asm	Not in zybook	Lab 8 MakeList.asm
11	Multiplication and division, (FP).	FP is not in zybook 10.1 to 10.7 (i/o)	TA on duty
12	Input/Output Systems, KbdExample.asm	(i/o, see 10.1 to 10.7)

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