TCSS 371A Machine Organization

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TCSS 371A Machine Organization

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Getting Started

• Get acquainted
• Review syllabus
• Understand purpose, scope, and expectations of
  the course
• Discuss personal expectations strategy for
  doing well
• Check out textbook website
• Discuss Laboratory (CP 206C) (Visit?)

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Lets begin

• Discuss the levels of abstraction involved in a
  computer solution to problem
• Discuss major Numeric Data Types
• Develop expertise in working with various
  numeric bases
• especially base 10, base 2 (binary), and base
  16 (hexidecimal)
• Become proficient converting numbers from one
  base to another
• Become proficient with 2s complement arithmetic
• Understand round off error, sign extension, and
  overflow
• Understand representation of floating point
  numbers
• Understand Binary Logic

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Abstractions The levels of abstraction involved
in a computer solution to problem

• Problem
• Algorithm (Definite/Precise, Computable, Finite)
• Language
• Machine Architecture
• Microarchitecture
• Circuits
• Devices
• Electron or light flow

Digital vs Analog Computers
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Develop expertise in working with various numeric
bases

• Base 10
• Base 2 (binary)
• Base 16 (hexidecimal)
• Others ?

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Become proficient converting numbers from one
base to another

• Base 10 to binary
• Binary to Base 10
• Base 10 to Hexidecimal
• Hexidecimal to Base 10
• Binary to Hexidecimal
• Hexidecimal to Binary
• Others ?

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Major Numeric Data Types

• Unsigned Integers
• Signed Integers
• Alphanumeric Data ASCII UNICODE
• Floating Point Numbers

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Become proficient with binary number
representation(See Text Figure 2.1)

• Unsigned binary Integers
• Signed Binary Integers
• 1s Complement Binary Integers
• 2s complement Binary Integers
• The binary point

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Become proficient with Hexidecimal number
representation

• Unsigned Hex Integers
• Signed Hex Integers
• 1s Complement Hex Integers
• 2s complement Hex Integers
• The Hex point

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ASCII (7 bit or extended)UNICODE (16 bit)

• See ASCII table
• See UNICODE table