Midterm Topics

March 4, 2005

Administrative Notes

Topics

• Floating Point
  • Parts of Section 3.6
  • Conversions between FP and decimal representations
  • Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division
  • No denorms, infinites, NaN, guard bits, rounding modes
• MIPS Assembly and Machine Code
  • Parts of Sections 2.3-2.7, 2.9
  • Integer Registers
  • Instruction Formats
  • Arithmetic (add, sub, addi, etc)
  • Data Movement (lw, sw, lui, etc)
  • Flow of Control (beq, etc - not j)
  • No floating point instructions
• Implementations
  • Sections 5.3-5.4, 6.1-6.5
  • Single-Cycle Implementation
  • Pipelined Datapaths
  • Pipelined Control
  • Timing Charts
  • Data Hazards
    • Forwarding
    • Stalls
  • No branch (control) hazards