COM 249 Computer Organization and Assembly Language

Reading, Courseware and Assignments

Readings	Topic and Courseware Supporting Courseware (Software)	“Lecture” Materials
Chapter1	Computer Abstractions and Technology Overview Multiple levels Performance Uniprocessors to Multiprocessors	Ch1 “Lectures” A, B, C, D Ch1a
Chapter 2	Instructions: Language of the Computer Operations and Operands Signed and Unsigned Numbers Representing Numbers & Instructions MIPS Addressing Parallelism & Instructions:Synchronization Courseware: BinayDecimal Courseware: Address Modes Courseware: PCSPIM- MIPS Simulator Mipster Editor	Ch2 “Lectures” E, F, G, H, I http://logos.cs.uic.edu/366/notes/MIPS%20Quick%20Tutorial.htm http://chortle.ccsu.edu/AssemblyTutorial/TutorialContents.html
Chapter 3	Arithmetic for Computers Arithmetic Operations Floating Point Operations Parallelism & Arithmetic: Associativity Courseware: PCSPIM- MIPS Simulator	Ch3 “Lectures” J, K, L, L2, M
Chapter 4	The Processor Logic Design Building a Datapath Piplined Datapath and Control Courseware: SR Latch	Ch4 “Lectures” J, K, L, L2, M,O, Q Appendix C http://bellerofonte.dii.unisi.it/WEBMIPS/ http://www.dii.unisi.it/~giorgi/WEBMIPS/
Chapter 5	Memory Hierarchy Caches Virtual Memory and Virtual Machines Parallelism and Memory Hierarchies	Ch5 “Lectures” R, S
Chapter 6	Storage and I/O Disk Storage Flash Storage Connecting Processors, Memory, I/O Devices	Ch6
Chapter 7	Multicores, Multiprocessors and Clusters Parallel Programs Shared Memory Multiprocessors Clusters Multithreading	Ch7
	Background Information	“Lectures” N, P, T, U, V
	Obtaining Software MIPS Simulator (PCSPIM) Editor (MIPSTER)	http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~larus/spim.html ( PCSPIM) (Needs Visual C++ loaded to work) http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~larus/PCSpim.pdf http://www.downcastsystems.com/mipster/
	Additional Resources	http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/assembly.html http://bellerofonte.dii.unisi.it/WEBMIPS/ http://www.dii.unisi.it/~giorgi/WEBMIPS/