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   +o know what memory is used for
   +o know what a processor is used for
   +o know the difference between the control part of the
     processor and the data part of the processor
   +o know what peripheral units are
   +o know how components are interconnected
   +o know the input and output components
   +o know the fetch-execute cycle
   +o know the difference between people oriented languages and
     machine oriented languages
   +o know the difference between machine language, machine
     oriented language, and symbolic language
   +o know why it is important to study computer organization and
     symbolic language programming
   +o know what is important about performance
   +o know how measures are chosen
   +o know why response time, throughput, and utilization are
     conflicting metrics.
   +o know the two most common techniques for improving computer
     performance
   +o know the relation between processor time, i/o time, and wait
     time
   +o know the relation between user execution time, system
     execution time, wall clock time, and effective time
     multiplication factor
   +o know the role of cycles per instruction (CPI) in impacting
     performance
   +o know the difference between measuring cycles and
     instructions
   +o know the abcs of workload selection
   +o know the three ways to increase CPU performance
   +o know Amdahl's law and how to apply it
   +o know the problems with MIPS and MFLOPS as performance
     metrics
   +o know the problems with synthetic workloads
   +o be able to solve problems similar to those on pages 56
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   +o know the four categories of machine instructions
   +o know the syntax and layout of MIPS 3-operand arithmetic
     instructions
   +o know the limitations of operand location specific to MIPS
   +o know the general layout of symbolic language statements
   +o know how to move data between the processor and memory on a
     MIPS machine
   +o know the difference between a base and an offset
   +o know the major instruction layouts for MIPS
   +o know the difference between instructions and pseudo-
     instructions
   +o know how to implement all the high-level language control
     structures
   +o know the addressing modes
   +o Know the binary representation of unsigned integers.
   +o Know sign magnitude, ones complement, and twos complement
     representations for signed integers.
   +o Know how to negate integers in all representations.
   +o Know why twos complement is almost universally used.
   +o Be able to convert among decimal, binary, octal, and
     hexadecimal.
   +o Be able to convert between decimal and an arbitrary base.
   +o Know how to add and subtract binary representations for sign
     magnitude, ones complement, and twos complement.
   +o be able to solve problems similar to those related to the
     sections we covered in the chapter on pages 180 through 220
     of the text.

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   +o know the differences among machine languages, symbolic
     instruction languages, and symbolic languages.
   +o know when and why to use symbolic languages
   +o know the major features of symbolic languages
   +o know the major SPIM pseudo operations/pseudo
     instructions/assembler directives
   +o know how system calls work in SPIM
   +o be familiar with the major components of an object file
   +o be able to solve problems similar to those on pages B-82
     through B-83 of the text.














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