You’ll need a working version of the MIPS simulator MARS to complete a few assignments. You can download and read a tutorial about using it here .
Archive for January, 2009
MARS
Thursday, January 29th, 2009Assembly Language and the MIPS Simulator
Thursday, January 29th, 2009Today we’ll write and code and run it in the simulator. Bring your laptop if you want to follow along.
Problem Set #1
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009Here is your first problem set . Email your solution as a text, pdf, or doc file to our TA, Sang Woo Lee before class on Tuesday 3 February. No late solutions will be accepted though your lowest 2 scores on problem sets will be dropped.
Addressing Modes
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009Today we’ll talking about features for accessing memory. Slides .
Readings about programming
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009Here are readings for upcoming lectures.
Sections 2.1-2.6
Section 2.9
Appendix A.9-A.10
Section 2.7
Instruction Set
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009Today we will beginning looking at the instructions used to program our computer.
Slides for today.
Read Chapter 2.1-2.6
Class Canceled Tuesday 20 January
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009Snow.
Information Encoding
Thursday, January 15th, 2009Readings: Chapter 1, Section 3.1-3.3.
Today we will look at the use of bits to encode information.
Slides for today.