Chapter 2 Class Notes Computer Architecture (CS2340) Computer Organization and Design MIPS Edition, ISBN: 9780124078864

Class notes over chapter 2 of the textbook. Topics include: arithmetic operations, register operands, memory operands, immediate operands, decimal numbers, binary numbers, hexadecimal numbers, octal numbers, number system conversions, signed and unsigned numbers, 2s complement, MIPS R-format instructions, MIPS I-format instructions, MIPS machine language, logical operations, shift operations, AND operations, OR operations, NOT operations, conditional operators, if statements, loop statements, basic blocks, branch instructions, case/switch statements, procedure calling, register usage, leaf procedures, non-leaf procedures, data on a stack, memory layout, character data, branch addressing, jump addressing, target addressing, synchronization, translation and starting a program, loading a program, dynamic linkage, lazy linkage, starting java applications, translating from high level code to assembly code, procedure sorting, effects of compiler optimization, effects of languages and algorithms, ARMS vs MIPS vs x86