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Assembly Language
This lecture covers Program Execution (a closer look at DRAM, the CPU, and the fetch-execute cycle) and introduces assembly language. The SPIM simulator is used to demonstrate writing and running programs for the MIPS family of processors.
Outline
- Review of the Fetch Execute cycle
- A model for DRAM
- Representing program and data in DRAM
- A model for the CPU
- Assembly Language Programming
- MIPS programming
Big Ideas
- Memory Blocks
- All types are represented as numbers
- CPU = Registers + Datapaths + Control + BIU
- Programming in assembly language
Slides from Lecture
To Do
- Complete the Drep homework this week.
- Read Chapter 2 of our textbook up to, and including, Section 2.8 but skip Section 2.4. If you are using the old edition of the textbook, read Chapter 3 up to, and including, Section 3.7 but skip Section 3.4.
- Download SPIM to your home machine and/or use the one in Prism.
- Complete the programs developed in class (found in the Resource Directory in What's New).
- Start reading and performing the tasks of Lab-A. Optional
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