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CSS 421 Midterm Review. Readings: Chapter 1-8 (Berger) Instructor: Rob Nash Exam: Monday, Mar 11 th Same time and place. Paper Topics Due By Final. Aside: email me with questions or your decided topic A good percentage of your grade, and helps balance out exams Paper + Presentation!.
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CSS 421 Midterm Review • Readings: Chapter 1-8 (Berger) • Instructor: Rob Nash • Exam: Monday, Mar 11th • Same time and place
Paper Topics Due By Final • Aside: email me with questions or your decided topic • A good percentage of your grade, and helps balance out exams • Paper + Presentation!
Format • 2 hr exam • 2-5 small questions • 2-5 medium questions • 2-4 large questions • Closed book & notes, calculators & translators allowed • Without storage, of course
Topic List • This will be on the message board • to be completed by Friday (should be final)
Topic: 68K Programming • We will likely do some or all of the following • Examine code for its output • Be asked to write code that accomplishes something • Loops, ifs • Memory checks • See examples today • Given code, what are the problems? • Given a Move or Add instruction in binary, identify the fields • I gave you a start on this with Move
Topic : Number Bases • Specifically: ones compliment addition & hex • 6 : 0110 • -6: 1001 • 2: 0010 • ------------- • 1011 (:-4)
Topics to Compare & Contrast • Discussion will be centered around topics covered in class • Gates • ISA • FlipFlops (SR, JK, MS, D) • Busses (Address & Memory & Status/Control) • PCs, Stack pointers • Memory paging • Register types • Address, Data, CCR
Topics for Manipulation • Gates • Circuit diagrams (and/or corresponding tt) • Truth Tables • K-Maps • Given C • Given Asm • Given a Truth Table • provide the circuit diagram
Topic: Memory Systems • How much is addressable in the 68K? • What if we have 3 chips that are 128K x 8 • What is the total addressable space • What if we want to address words and not bytes?
Laws & Rules • Moores Law • Amdahl’s Law • DeMorgan’s Law • Know some basic Boolean Identities • Performance • Know nanosecond to hertz conversion
HW Review • I borrow from the homework a bunch. • Consider reviewing some of the homework topics that line up with the list here
After Midterm, a New Gear • We’ll dive right into the OS book