CS 2505 Resources

Textbook-Related Sites

• Computer Organization and Design: the Hardware/Software Interface, 4th Ed.
• C Programming: a Modern Approach, 2nd Ed.
• Command-line builds with gcc in Windows shell and cygwin bash shell
• P&H CD Resources

MS PowerPoint Viewer

• Free viewer from MicroSoft; you may need this to see some of the course notes.

Logisim

• Logisim distribution site:  a tool for simulating logic circuits

Supplemental C Resources

• Parlante's notes on C Pointers
• Parlante's notes on Essential C
• Binky's Pointers in C
• Wikipedia article on printf format specifiers
• C program examples:    reverseNybbles.c

Processor Sim:  A Visual MIPS R2000 Processor Simulator

• ProcSim:   free, Java-based simulator for a variety of relevant MIPS datapath subsets.

 MARS:  MIPS Assember and Runtime Simulator

• MARS:   free, self-contained 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)

MIPS Assembly Examples

• Hello World
• FindMax
• Palindrome Tester
• Simple Procedure Calls
• BubbleSort c MIPS
• Histogram
• Factorial

Koofers for CS 2505

• Fall 2010 Test 1  Test 2
• Spring 2010 Test 1   blue    green
• Spring 2010 Test 2   blue    green
• Fall 2009 Test 1
• Fall 2009 Test 2

Koofers for CS 2504 (somewhat relevant)

• Fall 2008 Test 1
• Fall 2008 Test 2
• Spring 2006 Test 1
• Spring 2006 Test 2
• Fall 2006 Test 1
• Fall 2006 Test 2
• Spring 2008 Test 1
• Spring 2008 Test 2