Lecture 3: Instruction Set Principles and Examples

Date: Oct. 11

Background Material

Assembly Language Programming

Reading

Chapter 2 of Hennessy & Patterson
Supplemental reading
- Appendices C and D of Hennessy & Patterson
- Chapter 5 of High Performance Computing

Topics

Go over assignment 2

Looking at assembly code

loop.c
Intel (unoptimized) loop86.asm
Intel (optimized) loop86o.asm
SPARC (unoptimized) loopSPARC.s
SPARC (optimized) loopSPARCo.asm
MIPS (unoptimized) loopMIPS.asm
MIPS (optimized) loopMIPSo.asm

Instruction set architectures

Design choices
Empirical tests to substantiate decisions
DLX
MIPS examples

Lecture notes

Lecture Slides (lec3.ppt)

Programs

loop.c

Related Links

Introduction to MIPS instruction set (from CS 281)
Branching and Procedures in MIPS (from CS 281)

Assignments

Assignment 3 (Due in class on Oct. 18 - next class)

Created: Oct. 10, 2000 by jjohnson@mcs.drexel.edu