Final Exam Review

These topics will be covered in the Final Exam:

• Appendix A
• Digital Logic
  translate between digital logic schematic and Boolean expression
  analyze/simplify/evalutate/explain Boolean expressions
• Chapter 4
• Inside the SRC
• Register bank
  explain how a register bank is built from logic gates
• ALU
  explain how operations are implemented in the ALU
• Memory interface
  explain the internal steps involved in memory operations
• Chapter 2
• Register transfer notation
  explain the RTN syntax
• SRC definition in RTN
  define a new instruction in RTN
• Data paths (buses)
  how to apply the primary and secondary rule of buses
• Chapter 3
• SRC, SPARC -- RTN and assembly language
  compare & contrast some instructions
• Chapter 5
• Pipelining
  explain how pipelining works (more details later)
• Pipeline hazards
  what are they and how are they dealt with
• Chapter 6
• Number systems (and conversions)
  explain how floating point numbers differ from real numbers
  explain how to convert negative whole numbers to two's complement integers
• SPARC instructions
• define or match