General Information for CDA-4101

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• General course info
  • Free circuit drawing and running program. It has a simulator for testing circuits. GNU Electric.
  • There is a mailing list on www.cs.fiu.edu for this class. Your FIU e-mail address is already on the list. To retrieve your password for access to the list, go to the following link, scroll to the bottom, enter your FIU e-mail address in the box for Edit Options and submit it. The next page has a button for retrieving your password. Do not change your password to your regular FIU password, as the mailing list passwords are not encrypted.
    • Section 01: http://www.cs.fiu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/aul-cda410101
    • Section 02: http://www.cs.fiu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/aul-cda410102

    You may add more than one address to the list. When adding a new e-mail, be sure to follow the instructions about placing 'confirm ######' in the body of the text. If you only reply, it might not work.This is a moderated list, so only messages that I approve will be sent to you. I will sell your e-mail address to whomever wants to buy it (just kidding).

  • Syllabus
    • Section 01 (TR 11:00)
    • Section 02 (TR 5:00)
  • Web page for the textbook
• Exam Information will be posted here prior to exams. Check the syllabus for exam dates.
  • The midterm exam will be on October 14.
  • List of Topics for the midterm.
• Assignments will be posted here
  • Submitting Homework Online.
  • Assignment 1
  • Assignment 2
  • Assignment 3
  • Assignment 4
  • Assignment 5
• Extra Information.
  • More information about Mic-4
  • Common Operations in Mic-1
  • Information about Chip Select
  • 3-input Boolean function using SSI chips.
  • 4-input Boolean function on the MSI multiplexer chip.
  • More information about the C and N bits when comparing numbers.
  • Decentralized Bus Arbitration. I have updated this so that it holds Bus Busy until the device has finished with the bus.
  • Implementation of the Majority function using the LSI PLA chip from page 95.
  • Implementation of the Majority function using SSI chips.
  • A great page for memory information
    • Information about memory sizes and parity
    • Memory technologies
    • Memory Speed and Access Timing
    • Video RAM
    • Memory Technology Types
  • Types of memory
  • Bus Information
    • Bus Arbitration
    • A good definition of the different buses on a system
    • Decentralized Bus Arbitration. I have updated this so that it holds Bus Busy until the device has finished with the bus.
    • PCI Information
  • Penntium III and IV information
    • Information on the Pentium IV
    • Information on the 400 MHz system bus on the Pentium IV
    • Slot and Socket Information for the Pentium II and Pentium III
    • Summary of Pentium IV features
    • History of processors and a flame of the Pentium IV
    • Pentium IV uses Socket 423 (53 more than the Pentium III Socket 370)
    • Precessor Summaries
  • Pipelining
  • Branch Prediction
  • Superscalar
  • Changing hex microinstructions to MAL
  • Calculating offsets for jumps in Java Byte Code

More Information on the N and C bits

• It is not possible to use the N bit alone to determine the relative order of unsigned numbers. Try to create the following examples:
  1. Perform A - B where the result is negative, and B > A as unsigned numbers
  2. Perform C - B where the result is positive, and B > C as unsigned numbers. Use the same value for B as in the first example.
• The C bit is implemented as I had described originally. It is set as if the subtraction were done without using the 2's complement of the number. Perform the subtraction as you would normally (not with 2's complement), if you need to borrow to complete the subtraction, then the carry bit will be set. This raises the question of how this would be implemented in hardware. One solution would be to negate the carry-out of the highest ALU whenever the ALU forms the 2's complement of the A bus.

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