Computer architecture Period 3 (1DT631 and 1TT441)

Teacher:

• Justin Pearson

Lab assistant:

• Noomene Ben Henda

When and where shall we meet:

• Scheme

Books::

• The course will be based on the book by Andrew S. Tanenbaum. Structuered Computer Organization fourth edition.
• For lab and assignments we recommend the book by John Waldrom. Introduction to RISC Assembly Language Programming.

Links:

• The lectures'slides: Dark slides.
• Some useful links and notes here.

The lab and the first assignment are compulsory for both 1DT631 and 1TT441. The 1DT631 students have to go through the second assignment too.
Important!!

• The assignments and the lab should be handed in (as .s files) using Course Manager. Notice that you can't hand in any assignments after the first deadline (see below) unless you get K in the first corrections.
• You are supposed to work individually or in pairs.

Recommended Exercices

• Exercise 1 Introduction to SPIM, the MIPS Simulator
• Exercise 2 More on SPIM/MIPS

Compulsory Lab

The global deadline is 30 April 2007. You are allowed to resubmit any number of times. I will try to correct also as much as possible.

• Stacks and Subroutines

Compulsory Assignments

• Assignment 1 MIPS assembly

• Assignment 2 MIPS assembly, memory mapped I/O