CS 2506 resources

Exam Supplement:  here

Student Survival Guide:  read this first!!

Textbook-Related Sites

• Computer Organization and Design: the Hardware/Software Interface, 5th Ed. (4th edition is probably OK)

Erratum sheet, CD contents, some other resources.

P&H Appendix on Digital Logic (4th Edition)

Recommended resources from the Safari Database

• Write Great Code, Volume 1, R Hyde, No Starch Press (c)2004  ISBN 978-1-593-27003-2

• Write Great Code, Volume 2, R Hyde, No Starch Press (c)2006  ISBN 978-1-593-27065-0

• The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse, N Matloff & P J Salzman, No Starch Press (c)2008  ISBN 978-1-593-27174-9

VirtualBox and Linux

• Some notes on setting up VirtualBox and CentOS

MIPS:  Datapath Visualization

• ProcessorSim MIPS:   free Java tool for visualizing the single-cycle MIPS32 datapth we'll be studying

MARS:  MIPS Assember and Runtime Simulator

• MARS:   free Java tool for substantial subset of MIPS assembly language we'll be studying.

MIPS Assembly Documentation and Tutorials

• A pretty good tutorial introduction by Daniel J Ellard.
• MIPS32 Architecture Volume 1: Intro to the MIPS32 Architecture  (somewhat low-level descriptions)
• MIPS32 Architecture Volume 2: The MIPS32 Instruction Set (very good descriptions of all the MIPS32 instructions)
• MIPS32 Architecture Volume 3: The MIPS32 Privileged Resource Architecture (probably far more than you'll ever need to know)
• Categorized list of the basic MIPS instructions (according to MARS)

Logisim

• Logisim distribution site:  a tool for simulating logic circuits
• Digital logic examples (Logisim files, right-click and save link; make sure extension is .circ):

  4x1 multiplexor   simple adders    4-bit fast-carry adder   4-bit barrel shifter

Supplemental C/Linux resources

• Parlante's notes on C Pointers
• Parlante's notes on Essential C
• Wikipedia article on printf format specifiers
• Notes on C strings
• The Open Group site (use the INDEX search or go to the Alphabetic Index link)
• bash shell script for backing up files to rlogin: script
• bash shell script for safer use of tar command:  script
• Short intro to make: pptx  pdf