| Week | Topics | Text |
| 1 | * Representing signed integers in binary * Bit-wise logical operations * Representing floating point numbers in binary * Hexadecmial numbers | Chapters 1-2 |
| 2 | * Logic gates built from transistors * Decoders and Multiplexers * Full adders * Programmamble Logic Arrays * Storage: R-S Latch, Gated D-Latch * Registers and Register Files * Circuits with state | Chapter 3 |
| 3 | * Instruction processing * Instruction set architecture (ISA) * LC-3 Opcodes and addressing modes * Introduction to the LC-3 simulator | Chapters 4-5 |
| 4 | * LC-3 contructs * Conditional Branching * Loops * I/O * JSR(R) and RET * Writing functions | Chapters 5-6 |
| 5 | * LC-3 Assembly language * The assembler * I/O * Interrupts | Chapters 7-8 |
| 6 | * Traps * Call/Return * The Stack | Chapters 9-10 |
| 7 | more stack, review, and midterm exam | Chapter 10 |
| 8 | * from the LC-3 to the x86 instruction set and addressing modes * introduction to the C programming language * ddd interactive debugger | Appendix B, Chapters 11-13 |
| 9 | * Compilation issues * typical x86 instruction code generated by various C constructs including conditionals, loops, switch-statements, parameter transmission, arrays, and structs | Chapters 14,16, web material TBA |
| 10 | * linking and loading * position-independent code * unlinked relocatable object modules * linked executable modules | web material TBA |
| 11 | * Operating system issues: storage * disks, RAM, caches, virtual memory * malloc, free * segmentation faults, * buffers, file I/O in C, and buffer-overflow exploits | Chapter 18 and web material TBA |
| 12 | * Operating system issues: scheduling and process management * processes, interrupts, context management * apparent concurrency, scheduling * threads | web material TBA |
| 13 | * Hardware help for real concurrency * multiple cores, pipelining and branch prediction | web material TBA |