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CSC258 is a Winter 2022 course focused on computer organization, covering topics such as digital logic, system organization, and microprogramming. The course includes online lectures, weekly labs, and a significant assembly language project, with a grading breakdown of labs (42%), project (20%), and final assessment (38%). Important course details, including instructor contact information, office hours, and academic integrity policies, are provided, along with recommended textbooks.

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CSC258 is a Winter 2022 course focused on computer organization, covering topics such as digital logic, system organization, and microprogramming. The course includes online lectures, weekly labs, and a significant assembly language project, with a grading breakdown of labs (42%), project (20%), and final assessment (38%). Important course details, including instructor contact information, office hours, and academic integrity policies, are provided, along with recommended textbooks.

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CSC258: Computer Organization Winter 2022

This course provides an introduction to the underlying digital structures of computers. Topics include digital
logic representation and design, computer system organization and microprogramming.

Instructor Information

Steve Engels BA4266 (416) 946-5454 [email protected] *


(L0101 & L0201) Zoom link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/5546086241 password: 112358
Office Hours: Mondays & Wednesdays 10am-11am **
Zoom link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/5546086241 password: 112358
Rabia Bakhteri [email protected] *
(L5101) Zoom link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/86172429910 password: 123258
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 2.00-4.00pm
Zoom link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/82787875754 password: 123258
* please write "CSC258" in the subject header of your emails.
** email your instructor if appointments outside this time are required.

Course Information
Information pertaining to this course will be available on Quercus. The course website will have course
announcements & materials, discussion boards, relevant readings, as well as assignment, lab & project
details. Announcements will be made through the email you register on Quercus, but the site is required
reading, and it is understood that you will check it multiple times a week.

Important Dates

Week Topics Milestone(s)


Jan 10 – 14 Overview, transistors, basic logic gates
Jan 17 – 21 Combinational circuit design, K-maps
Jan 24 – Jan 28 Logical devices (muxes, adders, decoders) Lab 1
Jan 31 – Feb 4 Latches & flip-flops Lab 2
Feb 7 – Feb 11 Registers, counters, finite state machines Lab 3
Feb 14 – Feb 18 Finite state machine design Lab 4
Feb 21 – Feb 25 << Reading Week >>
Feb 28 – Mar 4 Registers, memory (RAM & ROM) Lab 5
Mar 7 – Mar 11 Architecture & microprogramming Lab 6
Mar 14 – Mar 18 Assembly language basics Lab 7
Mar 21 – Mar 25 Assembly language program design
Mar 28 – Apr 1 Advanced assembly language Project demo 1
Apr 4 – 8 Pseudoinstructions, interrupts, course review Project demo 2
Lateness is generally not accepted, except in cases of medical or similar emergency. Lateness due to
personal reasons must be brought to the instructor for consideration, as early as possible.
Discussion Board
Piazza site: https://piazza.com/utoronto.ca/winter2022/csc258h1s
We will be using Piazza for class discussions. For questions related to course content, please post on Piazza
instead of emailing them to the instructor. Questions of a more personal nature are better through email. If
you have any problems with the Piazza platform, please email [email protected].

Mark Breakdown
Component Weight
Labs 42% (7 total, 6% each)
Project 20%
Final Assessment 38% (you must get 50% on the final to pass the course)

● Lectures & Office Hours:


o The lectures will be online and synchronous until the assembly language topic, at which point the
classroom will change to a flipped model (recorded lectures + in-class examples).
o The expectation is that you attend class during the lecture time. We plan to record the lectures, but cannot
guarantee this since technical issues can interfere with the recordings.
● Labs:
o The labs are weekly practical exercises that are demonstrated to a TA during the online lab session.
o Pre-lab reports are mandatory for each lab, and must be submitted on Quercus before 5pm on the day of
your lab session, along with any code developed for that lab. Students who fail to do this will not be
allowed to perform their demos during the lab session.
o In-class tutorial sessions will be used to discuss upcoming lab work.
● Project:
o A large assembly language project takes place during the last month of the course. Marks are also given
for successful implementation, innovative design and creativity.
o Project demos are performed in the lab sessions of the course, and are worth 20% total.
Students work individually for both labs and the project.

Course Textbooks
Recommended: Mano, Kime, Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals, 4th ed., Prentice Hall, 2008
Other texts: Hamacher, Vranesic, Zaky, Computer Organization, 5th ed., McGraw Hill, 2002
Null, Lobur, The Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture, 3rd ed.,
Jones & Bartlett Publishing, 2012

Administrative Details
Please don’t plagiarise other people’s work. If you need clarification on the university’s policies on
plagiarism, consult the Code of Behaviour on Academic Matters: www.artsci.utoronto.ca/osai/students.

We will be applying plagiarism software such as Ouriginal and MOSS on all lab submissions for a review of
textual similarity and detection of possible plagiarism. In doing so, students will allow their code to be
included as source documents in the tool’s reference database, where they will be used solely for the
purpose of detecting plagiarism. The terms that apply to the University’s use of this tool are described on
the Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation web site (https://uoft.me/pdt-faq).

This course, including your participation, will be recorded on video and will be available to students in the
course for viewing remotely and after each session. Course videos and materials belong to your instructor,
the University, and/or other source depending on the specific facts of each situation, and are protected by
copyright. In this course, you are permitted to download session videos and materials for your own
academic use, but you should not copy, share, or use them for any other purpose without the explicit
permission of the instructor. For questions about recording and use of videos in which you appear please
contact your instructor.

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