Administrative details

• CS2100 Resources^ᛦ

• Using ANSI C (C90)

Week 1

Topics

Misc

How are programming languages related to hardware?^ᛦ

C

Why use C?^ᛦ

Dissecting a sample C program^ᛦ

Datatypes in C^ᛦ

What is range limitation in C?^ᛦ

What is accuracy limitation in C?^ᛦ

What is conversion hierachy?^ᛦ

What is difference between float and double?^ᛦ

What are conversion rules?^ᛦ

Data representation & number systems

What does positional weighted system mean?^ᛦ

What is common terminology for positional weight systems?^ᛦ

Convert from decimal to binary^ᛦ

Convert from decimal to base-R^ᛦ

convert from base-k to base-j^ᛦ

What are the units of storage for computers?^ᛦ

How do data types bit-size differ on different processors?^ᛦ

Convert signed numbers to binary^ᛦ

UTF-8 encoding system^ᛦ

IEEE 754 for floating point numbers^ᛦ

Ascii encoding^ᛦ

Week 5 - Building a processor

Requirements of a processor^ᛦ

Processor supported instructions^ᛦ

Instruction execution stages / cycle^ᛦ

Clock signal^ᛦ

MIPS Processor Control, control signals^ᛦ

Week 7 - Pipelining

MIPS pipelining^ᛦ

Week 8 - Cache

MIPS Cache: Memory hierarchy^ᛦ

MIPS Cache: The Principle of Locality^ᛦ

MIPS Cache: The cache principle^ᛦ

MIPS Cache: Direct-Mapped Cache^ᛦ

MIPS Cache: Cache structure^ᛦ

MIPS Cache: Cache Write & Write Miss Policy^ᛦ

MIPS Cache: Framework^ᛦ

Week 9

MIPS Performance^ᛦ

MIPS boolean algebra^ᛦ

MIPS digital circuits^ᛦ

Week 11

Sequential circuit^ᛦ