Copyright © September 2006, Dr. William T. Verts

Classes for Fall 2006

• Lectures: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11:15-12:05, LGRC A301.
• Discussion: Monday, 2:30-3:20 in LGRC A301.
• Honors: To Be Arranged.

Office Hours for Fall 2006

• David Cooper (cooplogic@gmail.com), To Be Arranged.
• Dr. Bill (verts@cs.umass.edu), Tuesday and Thursday 2:00-3:45, and after class - LGRC A357

Announcements and Assignments for Fall 2006

• Solution to BSOD Assignment (x86), posted September 30, 2006
• Second Assignment (x86), posted October 4, 2006
• Third Assignment (ARM), posted November 16, 2006
• Lab3.zip Source for Third Assignment (ARM), posted November 16, 2006
• Solution to Midterm #1
• Solution to Midterm #2
• Fourth Assignment (ARM), posted December 5, 2006 (due by December 22)
• Fifth Assignment (ARM) EXTRA CREDIT, posted December 11, 2006 (due by December 22)
• Solution to Final Exam

Software

General

• Animated GIF showing how to build Single Precision Floats
• Single Precision Numbers Demo (133K .ZIP, expands to 255K .EXE file)

ARM

• ARMulator assembler/linker/debugger - unpack zip and follow READ.ME.txt file
• ARM.com has the entire ARM instruction set as a .PDF document
• www.arm.com also has a bunch of other material of interest to our class.
• ARM Arithmetic Demo (202K .ZIP file, expands to 399K .EXE file)
• Expression Compiler and x86/ARM Code Optimizer (568K .ZIP file, expands to 416K .EXE file and 428K .PDF manual)

x86

• Extensive list of BIOS calls and code chunks
• Mode 13 notes for x86 assembly language .PDF format (2nd draft)
• (version 4) .ZIP file containing x86 assembly language libraries (*.OBJ) and documentation (*.PDF) November 20, 2002
• Source code for my STANDARD.ASM
• (version 2) .ZIP file containing x86 program (both .ASM and .EXE) to display keyboard codes
• .EXE example for "Blue-screen-of-death" assignment
• Z99 Programmer's Spreadsheet (17K .ZIP file, expands to 139K .EXE file, written in 8088 assembly)
• 8x8 Bitmap Font Definitions, in x86 Assembly Language (22K .ZIP file, expands to two .INC, two .GIF, and one .TXT file)

Fall 2005

Exam Materials

• Midterm 2 Part 2
• Midterm 2 Answers
• Final Exam Part 2

Fall 2004

Exam Materials

• Midterm 1 Answers
• Midterm 2 Answers
• Final Exam Solution.

Spring 2004

Exam Materials

• Midterm 1 Review
• Midterm 1 Answers
• Midterm 2 Review
• Midterm 2 Answers
• Final Exam Review

Lectures in .PDF format

• Lecture #2 - January 30, 2004 - 6502 architecture
• Lecture #3 - February 2, 2004 - 8088 architecture
• Lecture #4 - February 4, 2004 - ARM architecture introduction
• Lecture #5 - February 6, 2004 - Conditional Execution and Binary
• Lecture #6 - February 9, 2004 - Integer Representations
• Lecture #7 - February 11, 2004 - A Worked Problem for the ARM
• Lecture #8 - February 13, 2004 - Binary Instruction Formats, Introduction to ARMulator
• Lecture #9 - February 18, 2004 - Introduction to Subroutines
• Lecture #10 - February 20, 2004 - ASCII PrintHex Subroutine
• Lecture #11 - February 23, 2004 - Subroutines, PrintHex, and Transparency
• Lecture #12 - February 25, 2004 - Ugly Programming Tricks
• Lecture #13 - February 27, 2004 - Introduction to Floating Point
• Lecture #14 - March 1, 2004 - More Floating Point
• Lecture #15 - March 3, 2004 - A Worked Floating Point Problem
• No Lecture - March 5, 2004 - Review for Midterm
• No Lecture - March 8, 2004 - Midterm #1
• Lecture #16 - March 10, 2004 - Arrays and the Stack
• Lecture #17 - March 22, 2004 - Arrays
• Lecture #18 - March 24, 2004 - Parameters and the Stack
• Lecture #19 - March 26, 2004 - Parameter Passing Mechanisms
• Lecture #20 - March 29, 2004 - Recursion
• Lecture #21 - March 31, 2004 - Introduction to Gates
• Lecture #22 - April 2, 2004 - Relays and Adder Subtractors
• Lecture #23 - April 5, 2004 - Flip-Flops
• Lecture #24 - April 7, 2004 - More Flip Flops
• Lecture #25 - April 9, 2004 - Shift Registers
• No Lecture - April 12, 2004 - Midterm #2
• Lecture #26 - April 14, 2004 - Memory Minimization and Multiplication
• Lecture #27 - April 16, 2004 - More Multiplication
• Lecture #28 - April 21, 2004 - Serial and Parallel Communication (Handshaking and UARTs)
• Lectures #29 and #30 - April 22 and 23, 2004 - Input/Output and Interrupts
• Lecture #31 - April 26, 2004 - Bezier Curves and Quadratic Splines
• Lecture #32 - April 28, 2004 - The Bizarre Architecture of the PDP-8
• Lecture #33 - April 30, 2004 - The CDC-3300 and 6000 Series
• Lecture #34 - May 3, 2004 - Compiler Issues
• Lecture #35 - May 5, 2004 - I Feel the Need for Speed (Introduction to Cache)
• Lecture #36 - May 7, 2004 - Content Addressable Memories
• No Lecture - May 10, 2004 - Project Demos from the Honors Students
• Lecture #37 - May 12, 2004 - Super Scalar and Pipelining