345/710 Computer Organization, Winter 20103

What's New

• April 19th: Added a review session for exam 2 NEW
• March 25th: Added a note that the exams will be held in room 70-1400 Recent
• Nov. 22nd: Created page

Notes

• Prof. Carithers' Lecture Notes. Note that these notes are password protected. See me for the ID/Password information.

Homework

NOTE there are no formal homeworks assigned in this class. Some sample questions may be provided in class, with answers made available at a later date.

Experiments/Projects

• All grading of your experiments and projects will be done with rasm/rlink/rsim. You must make sure the code you submit works in this environment.
• The only pseudo-instructions that you can use for the experiments are:
  • li
  • la
  • move
  • mul
  • div
  • rem
  • not
  You will lose points if you use any of the other pseudo-instructions.

  Here is a link for more information about the MIPS pseudo-instructions with regard to this class.

• Here is a Makefile that you can edit up and use to compile/link your programs with rasm/rlink. Make sure to read the comment at the beginning of the file.
• If you'd like to try working with a graphical simulator you can try SPIM. you can find some information on using it at: SPIM Debugging page

Exams

Links

• Course Web page at: 4003-345
• Prof. Carithers' Comp. Org. Webpage
• R2000 emulation software

  Process	Location	Docs
  Assembler	/home/fac/wrc/bin/rasm	RASM(pdf)
  Linker	/home/fac/wrc/bin/rlink	RLINK(pdf)
  Simulator	/home/fac/wrc/bin/rsim	RSIM(pdf)

• SPIM on the unix systems is at:
  • SPARC-based systems (A70, SunBlade):
    • /home/course/vcss345/bin.solaris/spim
    • /home/course/vcss345/bin.solaris/xspim
  • Opteron-based systems (Ultra 20):
    • /home/course/vcss345/bin.solaris86/spim
    • /home/course/vcss345/bin.solaris86/xspim