Handouts and Examples for CS311: Computer Organization

The following handouts were/will be made available over the course of the Fall, 2021 offering of the course. Students enrolled in CPS311 may reproduce these notes forpersonal study. Others may reproduce these notes for non-commercial educational purposes provided that notice of the author's copyright is included. All other rights are reserved

• Logic Axioms
• Types of Latches/Flip-Flops
• Examples of IEEE 754 <-> Decimal Conversion
• Hamming Code Example
• The MIPS ISA
• Translation Patterns for Typical Higher Level Language Constructs
• An Example of A MIPS Program Using Procedures and Parameters
• MIPS Register Conventions
• Exception Handling in a MIPS Program
• Addressing Modes
• The following three handouts develop a multicycle implementation of MIPS that is not the way MIPS is actually implemented - these are based on a simplification for pedagogical reasons.
• RTL for Single Cycle and Multicycle MIPS Simulation
• Micro Architecture for Multicycle MIPS Simulation
• Example Executed by Two Simple MIPS programs
• MIPS Pipeline Stages