EECS 370 Midterm

Relevant Class: EECS 370

Topics Covered

I’m going to be very honest, I have no idea what’s actually going to be on this exam (specifically, how much of data hazards / control hazards and beyond are going to be on the exam). But here’s my best guess:

• Trends in Computing
  • Moore’s Law
  • Dennard Scaling
• Assembly:
  • Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)
  • LC2K
  • LEGv8
• Representing Data:
  • Binary, Hex, Octal, Decimal
  • Two’s Complement Numbers
  • Floating Point Numbers
  • Endianness
• Assembling LC2K into Machine Code
• C to Assembly (Specifically LEGv8)
• Struct Alignment
• Function Calls
  • Caller Save vs Callee Save
  • Assigning Variables to Memory Locations
• Object Files
  • Symbol Table
  • Relocation Table
• Combinational Logic
  • Logic Gates
  • Muxes
  • Decoders
  • ALUs
  • Propagation Delay
• Sequential Logic
  • SR Latch
  • D Latch
  • D Flip-Flop
• Finite State Machine (FSM)
  • Read Only Memory (ROM)
  • Moore Machines vs Mealy Machines
• Single-Cycle Processor
  • LC2K Single-Cycle Datapath
• Multi-Cycle Processor
  • LC2K Multi-Cycle Datapath
• Pipelining