Today we’ll talk about measures of computer system performance that help designers and users evaluate implementation issues. Read sections 1.4 to 1.9 in the 4th ed; 4.1-4.6 in 3rd.
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Performance
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010Floating Point
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010Slides .
Multiplication and Division
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Now that we know how to add and subtract we’ll figure out how to implement multiplication and division.
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Study chapter 3.
Arithmetic Circuits
Monday, February 15th, 2010Today we’ll see how to implement arithmetic (and some logical) functions using gates.
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Readings: Appendix C1-C3, C5, skim C6
Transistors and Logic
Monday, February 8th, 2010In today’s lecture we’ll dive deep into the implementation of computers to explore the lowest level building blocks.
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Readings: Appendix C.1-C.3
and to read ahead go ahead and read: Ch. 3.1-3.2, Appendix C.5-C.6
Assembler and Compilers
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010Today we’ll talk about how assemblers and compilers prepare programs for execution.
Reading 2.12-14 in 4th ed or 2.10-13 in 3rd ed.
Stacks and Procedures
Monday, February 1st, 2010Today we’ll begin talking about how to manage procedure call and return.
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Read section 2.8 in the 4th edition, 2.7 in the 3rd.
Programming MIPS with MARS
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010Addressing Modes
Monday, January 25th, 2010Today we’ll talk about accessing data in memory and begin talking about programming control structures.
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Instruction Sets
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010Today we will talk about how instructions are represented and used to control the computer.
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