Professor Stearns
CPE 315 Course Materials
Winter 2008

Class Overheads

Arithmetic and math:

Adder Truth Tables
Booth's Algorithm Conceptual Examples
Computer Architecture Units
Floating Point Rules
MIPS ALU functions
Java program and C Program to illustrate -1 representation
Java program to illustrate overflow
Java program to illustrate that floating point isn't associative
C program to illustrate that floating point isn't accurate
Program to illustrate the compile-time math for calculating address halves
Purposes of Carry and Overflow
Real Number Representations (float, scaled, BCD)
Two's complement introduction

Standards: Coding, programming, terminology

Bit Hood
Commands, Directives, Instructions
Confused Terms
Magic Numbers

Instruction Set Architectures and Program Execution

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