Reading Assignments
( sections and pages for version 3 [version 2] )

Computing Systems

Mano & Kime, Sections 1.1 and 1.2, pg. 1-13  [1-10].

Switches

Textbook Supplement 2-8  (local copy)

Boolean

Mano & Kime, Sections 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3, pg. 29-47  [27-44].

          Gate Design - Mano & Kime, Sections 2.6 and 2.7, pg. 65-70  [62-75].

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Simplifying Expressions

Mano & Kime, Sections 2.4 and 2.5, pg. 47-65  [45-62].

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Building Blocks

Mano & Kime, Sections 3.1, pg. 87-96  [91-92].

Mano & Kime, Sections 4.3, 4.4, 4.5 pg. 146-160  [3.5, 3.6, and 3.7, pg. 104-133  [111-124].

Number Systems

Mano & Kime, Sections 1.2, 1.3, pg. 8-16   [10-13]

Mano & Kime, Sections 5.1 - 5.2, pg. 201-210   [3.10, pg. 137-140]

Mano & Kime, Sections 11.7 pg. 507 - 511   [9.7, pg. 491-495]

Arithmetic

         Mano & Kime, Sections 5.1 - 5.5, pg. 201 - 223   [3.8, 3.9, and 3.10, pg. 125-144]

Latches and Registers

Mano & Kime, Sections  6.1 - 6.3, pg. 241 -258  [4.1 and 4.2, pg. 183-191]

Mano & Kime, Sections  7.1 - 7.3, pg. 309 - 317  [5.1, 5.2, and 5.3, pg. 249-256]

State Machines

Mano & Kime, Sections  6.4, pg. 258 - 267   [4.4, pg. 201-208]

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Counters

Mano & Kime, Sections 7.6, pg. 324 - 339   [5.5, pg. 263-273]

Memory

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Datapath Elements

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Single Cycle Datapath

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Interesting Web Sites:

Motorala/IBM Power PC

Intel Pentium

CPU Information Center

Computer Architecture

Instruction Types - see Wills

Free Doc.s: MIPS Instructions,  SPIM Tutorial,  MIPS Emulator, SPIM Documentaion,  Assembly Language & MIPS Instruction Set.

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