Computer Science 220
Assembly Language & Computer Architecture
Fall 2010, Siena College
Lecture 13: Introduction to Microarchitecture: Data Paths and Control
Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Agenda
- Announcements
- minor topic reordering
- grading status
- Lab 7 wrapup: protoboards are on the 3rd floor for the day
- Lab 8 circuit construction this week
- Exam 2 supplement (out at the end of class)
- Introduction to Data Paths and Control
- Building a MIPS-specific ALU
Lecture Assignment 13
Due at the start of class, Thursday, November 17.
Please submit answers to these questions
either as a hard copy (typeset or handwritten are OK) or by email to
jteresco AT siena.edu by the start of class. We will discuss these questions at
the start of class, so no late submissions are accepted.
- P&H Exercise 4.1, p. 409 (Notes: In 4.1.1, consider all of the labeled control signals in the figure, 4.1.5 should be the lw instruction, not the LD instruction)