Computer Science 324 Computer Architecture Mount Holyoke College Fall 2007

Agenda

• Announcements
• Lecture assignment recap
• Floating-point representations
• vonNeumann architectures
• The MIPS instruction set architecture
  • arithmetic instructions
  • registers and memory

Lecture Assignment

Due at the start of class, Monday, September 17.

Turn in a short answer to this question. Please turn in a hard copy (typeset or handwritten are OK). We will discuss the question during class, so no late submissions are accepted.

The readings for next time are P&H 2.4-2.6.

1. True or false: 0.1 (base 10) can be represented as a floating point number within the computer. Justify your answer.