Class Notes

• An Image of MIPS from Page 263
• An image of the PIPELINE in MINPS from page 287
• Introduction
  • Wombat overview
  • Programming Wombat
• Chapter 1, Computer Abstractions and Technology
  • First Part of the Chapter
  • Of Clocks and things.
  • Wombat performance computation
  • Performance
  • The End of Chapter 1
• Appendix B, The Basics of Logical Design
  • Basics of Digital Logic
  • Flip-flops and Registers
  • The Register File
  • A Program Counter
• Chapter 2, Instructions: Language of the Computer
  • Intro to MIPS Assembly
  • Continuing with MIPS assembly
  • The Program and Logical Ops
• The MIPS ALU and ALU Control
  • The MIPS ALU
  • Control
• Back to chapter2/4
  • Branches and Jumps
  • Call Convention
  • Example Code
• Chapter 4, The Processor
  • Introduction to Pipelining
  • Piplined Datapath and Control
  • Not really notes on data hazards, but a version of the spreadsheet is there.
  • Control Hazards
• Chapter 5, Large and Fast: Exploiting Memory Heirachy
  • Introduction
  • Introduction to Cache
  • More Cache
• Appendix A, Assemblers, Linkers and the SPIM Simulator
• Appendix D, Mapping Control to Hardware
• Chapter 3, Arithmetic for Computers (In part at most)