CIS-2233 Concept Review

Things you should have learned in CIS-2233 Machine Organization this term:

General Performance

1. Effective instructions per second
2. Amdahl's Law
3. Moore's Law
4. Cost-effectiveness calculations

Binary Arithmetic & Logic

5. Decimal/Binary conversion
6. Add/Subtract/Multiply/Divide in binary
7. Binary floating-point representation
8. AND/OR/NOT operations
9. Table representation of boolean functions

Assembly Language

10. Register loads/stores
11. Logic operations
12. Arithmetic operations
13. Comparisons
14. Conditional branches
15. Subroutine calls & exits
16. How to translate into assembly language:

a. Assignment
b. IF/ELSE
c. Loops

Gates

17. Assembly/Gate conversion
18. Constructing function gate circuits from tables
19. AND/OR conversion
20. Doing arithmetic in gates
21. Functions/State distinction
22. ALU and Register implementation

CPU Structure

23. Block diagram of computer
24. Control flow in computer
25. Instruction execution
26. I/O

More Performance

27. Multi-cycle instructions
28. Pipelining
29. Memory hierarchy
30. Parallel processing

Rev. 2002 November 11