Class Notes

• The green card
  • Instruction Format
  • Instructions
  • Registers
• Page 263 from the book
• Page 287 from the book

• Some stuff from 125
• Computers
• Introduction/Wombat
  • Wombat 1
  • Wombat 2
  • Wombat Code
  • Wombat Organization
• The PC to MAR circuit from class
• Circuits from in class
• Wombat spreadsheet from class
• Chapter 1, Computer Abstractions and Technology
  • Performance
  • The Power Wall
• Appendix B, The Basics of Logical Design
  • Transistors and Flip Flops
• Chapter 2, Instructions: Language of the Computer
  • The Registers
  • Function Calls
  • MARS program from in class
• The MIPS ALU and ALU Control
• Chapter 4, The Processor
  • Jumps and Branches
  • Intro to Pipelines
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• Chapter 5, Large and Fast: Exploiting Memory Hierarchy
  • Cache Overview
• Appendix A, Assemblers, Linkers and the SPIM Simulator
• Appendix D, Mapping Control to Hardware
• Chapter 3, Arithmetic for Computers (In part at most)