CSE240: Intermediate Computer Systems
Spring 2001
Course outline

Jeffrey A. Meunier
UTEB 256, 860-486-2584
Computer Science and Engineering
University of Connecticut
jeffm@cse.uconn.edu

1.

Course introduction, discussion of CPUs, VMs, Haskell

2.

Introduction to Haskell and HUGS, values, functions, data types
introduction to the ARM processor, ARM registers
Project 1: ARM registers

3.

Modular Haskell programming, more data types, list processing

4.

RISC philosophy, introduction to ARM architecture and instructions
Project 2: ARM VM

5.

ARM programs, registers, and stack

6.

Addressing modes, arrays, records, structures, random access memory
Project 3: Memory

7.

Instruction encoding, classes

8.

Assemblers
Project 4: Assembler

9.

Side effects, combinators, higher-order funcitons

10.

Lexical binding, anonymous functions
Project 5: Loading programs into memory

11.

Branches, jumps, subroutines

12.

Constructors, pattern matching
Project 6: Debugger

13.

Interrupts
Project 7: Functions and interrupts

14.

Network programming

15.

Concurrency
Project 8: Multitasker