Computer Science 220
Assembly Language & Computer Architecture
Fall 2010, Siena College
Lecture 11: Building Larger Memory
Date: Thursday, November 4, 2010
Agenda
- Announcements
- Lab 6 due tomorrow
- Lab 7 due Tuesday at the start of class
- Friday lab meets in RB 136 again this week
- No lab meetings next week
- Exam 2 in one week
- In class November 11
- Closed book and closed notes, except one handwritten sheet
of notes, 8.5 × 11, both sides
- All digital logic topics from building gates from
transistors up to today's topics will be covered
- Practice exam questions out
- Tuesday's class is review, and we will go over:
- practice exam questions
- Lab 7 written problems
- the lecture assignment problems below
(which you do not need to turn in)
- any other examples you wish to review
- Building Memory
- 1 ×4 memory device
- 4 ×4 memory device
- 4 ×8 memory device
- 1024 ×8 memory device
- SIMM layout
Lecture Assignment 11
Due at the start of class, Tuesday, November 9.
You need not submit answers to these
questions, but you will have a chance to ask questions about them at
the start of class.
- Implement a 1 ×4 memory using D-type flip-flops as
building blocks.
- Implement a 4 ×4 memory using the 1 ×4 memory
from the previous question as building blocks.