Norm Bartley
Watch here for notes to be posted following each of Norm's Winter 2020 lectures in ENCM 369 L02.
| Day | Date | Key Topics | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | Jan 13 | A PowerPoint introduction to ENCM 369; organization of a simple computer. | link |
| Wed | Jan 15 | Main memory, registers, memory reads/writes, sequences of machine instructions. | link |
| Fri | Jan 17 | MIPS memory organization, registers, machine language, assembly language. | link |
| Day | Date | Key Topics | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | Jan 20 | More MIPS instruction examples, memory transfers, organizing MIPS registers. | link |
| Wed | Jan 22 | Load and store instructions; accessing array elements; branching and jumping. | link |
| Fri | Jan 24 | Comparisons, left-shifting, MIPS pseudoinstructions, procedure calling. | link |
| Day | Date | Key Topics | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | Jan 27 | Leaf and non-leaf procedures; the stack; handling $ra register conflicts. | link |
| Wed | Jan 29 | Handling s-register and a-register conflicts; two ways to handle a-register conflicts. | link |
| Fri | Jan 31 | Local variables on the stack; character arrays and strings; "little endian" byte addressing. | link |
| Day | Date | Key Topics | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | Feb 03 | Byte access continued; a string-copy procedure; character arrays on the stack. | link |
| Wed | Feb 05 | Logic instructions (or, ori, lui, etc.); encoding of branch and jump instructions. | link |
| Fri | Feb 07 | Compiling and building C programs; the gcc toolchain; object and executable files. | link |
| Day | Date | Key Topics | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | Feb 10 | The linker and relocation information; static and dynamic linking. | link |
| Wed | Feb 12 | Signed and unsigned numbers in MIPS; four facts about 2's-complement. | link |
| Fri | Feb 14 | 2's-complement addition and signed overflow; the add/addu/addi/addiu instructions. | link |