CS 273: Final Exam Topics

The Final Exam will be Monday, May 5, at 8:00 AM. Please remember the following:

• The exam will be open book/open notes. You may bring any paper reference material you wish — your notes from class, printed copies of my web notes, the lab manual, the HC11 reference manual and guide, any books you want, etc. However, you may not use any electronic aids whatever: no computer, no PDA, no calculator, and (especially!) no cell phone.

  Something some students have found useful on occasion (in several different classes, not just this one) has been to generate templates to fill in with the solutions to problems they anticipate being on the exam. This can be very helpful, and is perfectly legitimate.

• Bring your own paper.
• In order to provide anonymous grading, you need to put your Banner ID on each sheet of paper you turn in. Hint: some students have found it useful in the past to print off ten pages or so of paper with their Banner ID on it already.
• Also, you need to start each problem on a new sheet of paper.
• Finally, remember that every question has an implicit "why?". If I ask a true/false question and your answer is the single word "true", it's wrong. It's the reasoning I'm looking for here.

The Stack

Initializing the stack pointer, pushing, popping

Procedures, jsr, rts, saving and restoring registers.

Parameters (both by value and by reference) — putting them on the stack, cleaning up the stack afterwards, accessing them from the procedure.

Hardware

Memory-mapped IO, the digital port, the analog port, the serial port.

Interrupts including IRQ interrupt (lightly)

Advanced Arithmetic (lightly)

BCD and Packed BCD, Multiple-precision.

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