Readings: Chapter 1-8 (Berger) Instructor: Rob Nash Exam: Monday, Mar 11 th Same time and place
Aside: me with questions or your decided topic A good percentage of your grade, and helps balance out exams Paper + Presentation!
2 hr exam 2-5 small questions 2-5 medium questions 2-4 large questions Closed book & notes, calculators & translators allowed Without storage, of course
This will be on the message board to be completed by Friday (should be final)
We will likely do some or all of the following Examine code for its output Be asked to write code that accomplishes something Loops, ifs Memory checks See examples today Given code, what are the problems? Given a Move or Add instruction in binary, identify the fields I gave you a start on this with Move
Specifically: ones compliment addition & hex 6 : 0110 -6: 1001 2: 0010 1011 (:-4)
Discussion will be centered around topics covered in class Gates ISA FlipFlops (SR, JK, MS, D) Busses (Address & Memory & Status/Control) PCs, Stack pointers Memory paging Register types Address, Data, CCR
Gates Circuit diagrams (and/or corresponding tt) Truth Tables K-Maps Given C Given Asm Given a Truth Table provide the circuit diagram
How much is addressable in the 68K? What if we have 3 chips that are 128K x 8 What is the total addressable space What if we want to address words and not bytes?
Moores Law Amdahl’s Law DeMorgan’s Law Know some basic Boolean Identities Performance Know nanosecond to hertz conversion
I borrow from the homework a bunch. Consider reviewing some of the homework topics that line up with the list here
We’ll dive right into the OS book