Fall 2012

Professor C. D. Cantrell, UT-Dallas

Lectures

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Computer history (08/27/2012)

Performance analysis (08/29/2012)

Hierarchical organization of a digital system (08/27/2012)

Integer data representations (09/04/2012)

Procedures and processes (10/01/2012)

Assembly language (9/17/2010)

Floating-point data representations (09/10/2012)

SPIM references:

1. A very useful detailed summary of MIPS R2000 instructions (8/8/1996) and a summary of integer and floating-point instructions, register labels and common system calls (10/20/1999)
2. Exception processing code (05/25/1999)
3. Data used for exception processing (05/25/1999)

Hardware implementations of arithmetic (9/15/2012)

Processor design (10/10/2012)

Formulas for the midterm exam (10/05/2011)

Pipelining (12/13/2012)

Memory technologies (10/20/2010)

Hierarchical memory (11/07/2012)

The UNIX file system (11/09/2011)

I/O (11/21/2011)

Multiprocessors and parallelism (11/26/2012)