CS/ECE 354 Machine Organization and Programming Fall 2008 Section 1 Instructor Mark D. Hill TAs Mark Liu & Somayeh Sardashti

Resources

No Textbook But

There will be no assigned textbook for this course, this semester. Use the provided writings and lecture notes (links below, within the Schedule), and listen in class for direction relating to readings from textbooks.

You will need access to information about programming in the C language. Most any textbook that introduces the C language is acceptable, so if you already have a book, use it. If you do not already have a book, please purchase a copy of

The C Programming Language
Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie
Second Edition

You will find this book relevant and useful in both further coursework and in industry. The university bookstore will not have many copies, and they will not be in the textbook section. In today's world, it will be easy and quick to obtain a copy at local bookstores or online sources.

Handouts

• C code:
  printf formatting for integers
  printf formatting for floating point values
  to show the use of array versus pointer references
  program to print a string backwards
• An easy-to-read ASCII Table
• A Truth Table for some of the Logical Operations
• A quick guide to using the simulator
• New MAL Documents: HTML, PDF, & Excel
• MAL Cheat Sheet
• TAL Cheat Sheet
• Picture of Interrupt Kernel (pdf or ppt).
• MIPS Status & Cause Registers

Helpful Links

Here are some (possibly) helpful web pages.

Other 354 Offerings

• Karen Miller's Spring 2008 Offering (used as a model for this semester).
• Mark Hill's Fall 2003 Offering (354 has changed, e.g., due adding CS/ECE 252).

C Programming

• University of Leicester introduction to C programming
• Steve Holmes introduction to C programming
• For historical interest only, here is Kernighan's 1974 introduction to C programming. Note that this is not up to date.
• Ian Cooke's brief C for C++ programmers

addressing mode links

Class Examples

• function code from the in-class example. This code was updated on Wed. April 2.