Lecture 5: Introduction to the MIPS Instruction Set
Date: April 10
Background Material and Further Resources
Reading
- Sections 2.1 through 2.5 of the text.
Topics
- Introduction to the MIPS instruction set
- Instruction format
- Arithmetic instructions
- Registers and memory organization
- load/store instructions
- Representing instructions in the computer
- R and I format instructions
- stored-program concept
- Video on the history of the computer (part II).
- Computer Pioneers and Pioneer Computers:
Lecture Notes
Created: Apr. 9, 2000 (revised Apr. 12, 2000) by
jjohnson@mcs.drexel.edu