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Exercises
- Exercises - many, many exercises to go with the lectures
- Powers of Two - a browser game to practice them
Interactive tools
- The Number Circle - numbers aren’t on a line, silly
- Load and Store Simulator - how loads and stores really work
Reference
- MIPS style guide - how to write asm that doesn’t look terrible.
- MIPS instructions - common instructions and what they do.
- MIPS cookbook - micro-tutorials on how to do common things in MIPS.
- MIPS ⬄ C correspondences - you write asm by pretending to be a compiler. These are the rules.
- Customizing Circuit Appearances - how to make your components look better (and be easier to use) in Logisim.
Examples
Right-click and save to download the asm and circuit files.
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| Numerical examples | |
|---|---|
| IntRanges.java | Shows and explains the ranges of the integer types in Java. |
| Bitwise.java | Shows several bitwise operators and oddities. |
| Combinational Circuits | |
| not_gate.circ | How a NOT gate is constructed out of transistors. |
| full_adder.circ | A 1-bit full adder made of gates. |