This week in CSci 281

Week 14: Monday, April 29

Happy Birthday, Poincaré! (1854)

Topics:

• The assembler
• Instruction sets
• Floating Point Instructions
• More architecture

Reading:

• Tanenbaum, chapters 5 (through 5.5, paying particular attention to material on the SPARC architecture), chapter 7
• Paul, chapters 9, 11

Schedule:

• Monday:
  • System Calls
  • The Trap instruction
• Tuesday:
  • System Calls
  • Assembler directives
• Thursday
  • How the assembler works
  • Floating Point Instruction Set
• Friday
  • Floating Point Instruction Set

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