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List of Handouts Used in L01 (Dr. Norman's lectures,
Tuesday and Thursdays at 9:30am)
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I am not going to post lecture notes -- just electronic versions
of the handouts I may bring to lectures from time to time.
- Tue, Jan 22 (PDF format).
This document is incomplete--students were supposed to mark it
up to show where addresses and data were flowing as instructions
got executed.
- Thu, Jan 31 (PDF format).
Front page has diagrams showing SPIM memory address space organization.
Back page
has an example of solving the a-register conflict problem
by copying incoming arguments to s-registers.
- Tue, Feb 5 (PDF format).
Front page
has an example of solving the a-register conflict problem
by copying incoming arguments to stack slots.
Back page has an example of putting local variables in memory
within a stack frame.
- Thu, Feb 28 (PDF format).
Integer Addition and Subtraction, Overflow and Wraparound.
- Thu, Mar 6 (PDF format).
Floating-Point Format Examples.
- Tue, Mar 11 (PDF format).
Some Data and Remarks about Arithmetic Speed.
- Thu, Mar 13. Figure 5.9 from the textbook.
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- Tue, Mar 18. Figures 5.10 and 5.17 from the textbook.
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- Thu, Mar 20. Figures 5.28 and 5.37 from the textbook.
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Correction, Sun Mar 23: In Figure 5.37, the control signals
should be RegDst = 0; RegWrite; MemtoReg= 1.
(By mistake I used a graphics file from an older printing of
the textbook, which had a typographical error.
If you have thlee 3rd Edition, Revised Printing, you will
see correct information on page 338.)
- Thu, Mar 27 (PDF format).
Partial Notes on Pipelining.
- Tue, Apr 1 (PDF format).
Introduction to Memory Organization.
- Thu, Apr 3. Figures 7.7, 7.9, and 7.17 from the textbook.
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- Tue, Apr 8 (PDF format).
Virtual Memory: The Big Picture.
- Thu, Apr 10 (PDF format).
More about virtual memory,
plus a memory system performance example.