Computer Science 220
Assembly Language & Computer Architecture

Fall 2011, Siena College

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Agenda

• Announcements
  • Extra hours tonight 7-9.
• Labs 100 and 101
• Exam 1 plan
  • Practice exam out - bring questions on Thursday
• Unix Tip of the day: banner
• Digital logic basics
  • resistors and transistors
  • the inverter
  • NOR and NAND
  • digital logic gate abstractions
  • universality of gates
  • representing mathematical functions

Lecture Assignment 0x0a

Due at the start of class, Thursday, October 13.

You need not submit answers to these questions, but you will have a chance to ask questions about them at the start of class.

Work through the practice exam problems and bring your questions about them to class on Thursday.

Links

• Wikipedia article on Moore's Law