Pre-class Assignment

Complete the participation activities for Chapters 3.1–3.3. Note: participation activities are the orange ones; you do not need to complete the blue challenge activities. We will do these in class or for homework.

Announcements

• Homework 1 is out and will be due next Monday Jan 30th before lab. Work can be submitted on Moodle.
• If you haven’t been able to get the zyBook yet, please complete the participation activities when you get your book; I’ll wait to grade for a few days so everyone can get caught up. Work with someone near you on class exercises for today.
• We will have our first lab Monday in Singer 221 at 1:15pm.
• Office hours: by appointment (email me if none of those times work)

Learning Objectives and Outcomes

In this lecture you will:

• listen to a short lecture reviewing the MIPS instruction language and basic instructions
• complete in class challenge activities and labs to learn the basics of using MIPS

By the end of this lecture you should be able to:

• write basic programs in MIPS that can execute arithmetic functions such as addition, subtraction, and multiplication.

Lecture Content

• Minor comment from last time:
  • When the book talks about “performance,” this usually means 1/execution time (i.e. faster execution time = higher performance)
• MIPS
  • introduction to instruction types
    • add, sub
    • addi, subi
    • lw, sw
• MIPS Design Principles So Far:
  • Design Principle 1: Simplicity favors regularity.
  • Design Principle 2: Smaller is faster.
• Class activity
  • Challenge Activity 3.3.1
  • Challenge Activity 3.3.2

In Class Exercises