Comp 220 - Computer Organization (Spring 2014)
- Syllabus
- Who was Clifford Nass? And what does this have to do with Computer Organization?
- Rube Goldberg? - no, it's a portion of the CPU!
- Slides from "Impacts of Moore's Law: What every CS undergraduate should know about the impacts of advancing technology." Plenary talk by Mary Jane Irwin of Penn State University at CCSCNE-07 Conference at RIT, Rochester, NY, April 21, 2007.
Linux Resources
Linux cheat-sheet - Linux sheet given out in class.
Linux Survival - online Linux tutorial. Quick-n-easy!
Beginners: Learn Linux
Linux is NOT Windows
Fun (?) Pictures
Photos from the Arithmeum Museum in Bonn, Germany.- 99.9999999% pure silicon crystal
- Silicon wafers, and self portrait
- Chips on a wafer
- This IS your father's memory (magnetic core memory; 10000 bit capacity)
- So easy, a monkey can do it! (check out the text from the original instructions in upper left)
- As exciting as it gets for a mathematician
Examples/Handouts
- How to make a chip - page from Intel with animated videos showing how computer chips are made.
- SPIM - all about SPIM, right from the source (James Larus, the original author).
- SPIM Quick Reference
- figure1.16.pdf - clock rate and power over time.
- figure1.17.pdf - processor performance over time.
- example1.a - simplest little assembly program.
- handout2.a - some basic math in assembly.
- example3.a - arrays in SPIM (What? Already??).
- example4.a - branches/jumps, version 1.
- example5.a - branches/jumps, version 2.
- example6.a - using branch as a loop.
- example7.a - branching with inequality.
- example8.a - using left and right shifts.
- example9.a - arithmetic with floating point values.
- Figures from Appendix B.
- Logisim 2.7.1 - circuit simulator (Java JAR file).
- Figures from Chapter 3.
- Flowchart of Booth's Algorithm.
- Flowchart for unsigned binary division.
- exam1.a - from Exam 1, Problem 6 (a).
Projects
- spim1 - project 1 specs (PDF).
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