Class Notes

These are for my benefit. They tell me what to talk about in class. They are by no means a substitute for:

• Attending class.
• Reading the book
• Taking your own notes.

Expected, i.e. tentative, topics/chapters:

Class notes will be placed here.

• Introduction (Carter Chapter 1, Jorgensen Chapter 1)
  • Overview of archetecture
  • A typical processor
  • Memory
• Bit operations (Carter Chapter 3)
• Circuits (Carter 3, Carpinelli chapter 2 and 3)
  • Intro to Digital
  • Intro to Transistors
  • Intro to Logic
    • The NOT lecture
    • The Physical Chips lecture
    • The And lecture
  • NOT
  • Physical Chips
  • Other Operations
  • Truth Tables, Circuits and Equations
  • Minterms
• Data Representation (Jorgensen Chapter 3)
  • Intro to Binary
  • Hex and Octal
  • Building an adder
  • Subtraction
• Architecture (Jorgensen Chapter 2)
  • Multiplexers to a Add/Subtractor
  • A simple MIPS ALU
  • Flip Flops and Sequential Circuits
  • Registers
  • The Program Counter
  • x86 Registers
  • Code for this section

• Dr. Lawlor's Quick Reference Guide.

• Starting with Asembly
  • More Registers
  • Memory/Directives
  • Code for this section
  • Writing an integer
  • Input
  • Code for this section
• Subprograms (Carter Chapter 4, Jorgensen Chapters 9, 12)
  • Stack Introduction
  • Functions part 1
  • A powerful :) example
  • The activation record revisited
  • Code for this section
• Some random code
  • Good Notes
  • Code for this section
• Arrays (string and not)
  • To lower, RemovePunct
  • See mySort.asm
  • Code for this section
• Control structures
  • Intro
• Basic Assembly Language (Carter Chapter 2)
• Floating Point (Carter Chapter 6, Jorgensen Chapter 18)
• Structures and C++ (Carter Chapter 7)
• Interrupts (Jorgensen Chapter 20)
• Parallel Processing (Jorgensen Chapter 19)