CSE 378 - Spring 1998

Machine Organization and Assembly Language Programming

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Outline

1. Introduction to architecture and organization (Chapter 1)
2. Instruction set and assembly language (Chapter 3)
   • General computer structure
   • Memory structures: registers, information units, addressing
   • CPU: instructions
3. Signed and unsigned numbers (Chapter 4, Sections 4.1 to 4.3)
4. An example architecture:  the MIPS R2000 (Chapter 3, Chapter 4, section 4, and Appendix A)
   • Overview of MIPS:  registers, data types, addressing
   • Computation, data transfer & control instructions
   • Instruction encoding
   • Addressing modes
5. Procedures and stacks (Chapter 3, section 7 and Appendix A.6)
6. Evolution of architectures, RISC vs. CISC
7. Performance metrics (Chapter 2)
8. Processor implementation (Chapter 5)
   • Data path
   • Single-cycle implementation and control
   • Multiple-cycle implementation and control
   • A control alternative:  microprogramming
9. Processor implementation, pipelining (Chapter 6)
   1. Data path
   2. Data hazards, forwarding
   3. Control hazards, delayed branches, branch prediction
   4. Instruction-level parallelism
10. Memory hierarchies (Chapter 7)
    1. Caches
    2. Cache design parameters
    3. Virtual memory