COMP40001 - Introduction to Computer Systems
The lecture contents for each week will be published in the form of slides and videos and we will hold a live Q&A session on every Friday at 13pm to 14pm BST covering the contents of that week’s lectures and tutorials.
There will be three coursework exercises (CWx in the schedule below).
Links to all the information above will be available through Piazza (Imperial login required).
Quick instructions for Digisim:
- Download Digisim from CATE as part of the coursework given files (also available here).
- Decompress and change into the decompressed directory:
unzip Digisim.zip && cd Digisim - Compile:
javac Digisim.java(optional, since the compressed archive already contains all the compiled files) - Run:
java Digisim
| Date | Topic | Type |
|---|---|---|
| W02 | L00: Introduction | Lecture |
| W02 | L01: Number representation | Lecture |
| W02 | L02: Binary arithmetic | Lecture |
| W02 | L03: Floating point representation | Lecture |
| W02 | CW1: Data representation | Coursework |
| W02: 16/10/2020 - 13-14pm | Live Q&A | Q&A |
| W03 | L04: Boolean algebra and logic gates | Lecture |
| W03 | T01: Functions, propositional calculus, de Morgan’s theorem | Tutorial |
| W03 | L05: The canonical forms of combinatorial circuits and their minimisation | Lecture |
| W03: 23/10/2020 - 13-14pm | Live Q&A | Q&A |
| W04 | L06: Combinatorial circuit design | Lecture |
| W04 | T02: Boolean equations, circuits and Karnaugh maps | Tutorial |
| W04 | L07: Time-dependent behaviour of digital circuits with feedback | Lecture |
| W04 | CW2: Combinatorial circtuit design | Coursework |
| W04: 30/10/2020 - 13-14pm | Live Q&A | Q&A |
| W05 | L08: Sequential circuits and flip-flops | Lecture |
| W05 | T03: Timing in logic circuits | Tutorial |
| W05 | L09: Synchronous digital systems | Lecture |
| W05: 06/11/2020 - 13-14pm | Live Q&A | Q&A |
| W06 | L10: Finite state representation of digital circuits | Lecture |
| W06 | T04: Two mode counter design | Tutorial |
| W06 | L11: Traffic lights -a design example | Lecture |
| W06: 13/11/2020 - 13-14pm | Live Q&A | Q&A |
| W07 | L12: Registers | Lecture |
| W07 | T05: Binary sequence recogniser | Tutorial |
| W07 | L13: Registers, multiplexers, decoders, comparators | Lecture |
| W07 | CW3: Registers | Coursework |
| W07: 20/11/2020 - 13-14pm | Live Q&A | Q&A |
| W08 | L14: Arithmetic | Lecture |
| W08 | T06: Binary coded decimal adder | Tutorial |
| W08 | L15: The manual processor | Lecture |
| W08: 27/11/2020 - 13-14pm | Live Q&A | Q&A |
| W09 | L16: A manual processor (cont’d) | Lecture |
| W09 | T07: A manual processor | Tutorial |
| W09 | L17: Random access memory | Lecture |
| W09: 04/12/2020 - 13-14pm | Live Q&A | Q&A |
| W10 | L18: A 32-bit computer architecture | Lecture |
| W10 | L19: A 32-bit computer sequencing | Lecture |
| W10: 11/12/2020 - 13-14pm | Live Q&A | Q&A |