Professor Stearns
CPE 315 Course Materials
fall 2004

Class Overheads

Arithmetic and math:

Adder Truth Tables
Booth's Algorithm Conceptual Examples
Computer Architecture Units
Floating Point Rules
MIPS ALU functions
Program to illustrate -1 representation
Program to illustrate overflow
Program to illustrate that floating point isn't associative
Program to illustrate the compile-time math for calculating address halves
Purposes of Carry and Overflow

Standards: Coding, programming, terminology

Bit Hood
Commands, Directives, Instructions
Confused Terms
Magic Numbers

Instruction Set Architectures and Program Execution

Methods of Executing a Program
MIPS Basic Principles
MIPS instructions used in CPE 315
Porting to a Different Instruction Set Architectures
Pipeline Code Reorganization Example
Why Microcode?

Exceptions: