CMSC 311 - Home

Relevant Musings:

• CMSC 150 Concepts
• Some useful Unix and MS Windows commands
  
• Base Translations
• Addressing Modes
• Slide 1 - Kam-Wing introduction to circuits
  
• K-Maps - part 1
• K_Maps - my lecture series
• Expression Trees - RPN and other stuff
  
• Trees - a Java applet
• Mano's computer
  
• Addressing Modes and Instruction Formats
• Caching - lecture by Mahatra, pdf
• Paging - a set of slides
  
• Windowing - RISC systems
  
• Branching - branch prediction algorithms, pipelining
• Interrupts - an example
  
• The Intel 8086 / 8088/ 80186 / 80286 / 80386 / 80486 Instruction Set
• Programmer Cards list
• S100 Computers - Intersystems Z80-II - a REALLY good explanation of a real computer
• Manual as a pdf
• Manual (pdf) on my web page
  

Simulators:

• Circuit drawing and simulation: Circuits by Duchon
• Assembler and computer simulation: http://sandsduchon.org/duchon/cs311/CompSim/index.html
• Get the v18 jar file
  
• Get the v17 jar file
• Get the v16 jar file
• Get the v15 jar file
  
• Get the v14 jar file - Uses Java 7
  
• Execute the jar file using the following command in a DOS window, or by double clicking on the icon of the jar file
  > java -jar ComputerSimulator.jar
• HelpSimulator
• Assembler Introduction
• Assembler Examples I
• Assembler Utility Examples
  
• A map of the main topics in Mano: http://sandsduchon.org/duchon/cm310/ManoMap.pdf
• Some sample circuits drawn using my simulator: http://sandsduchon.org/duchon/cs311/circuitsA.html
• Addressing Modes: http://sandsduchon.org/duchon/cs311/addressing.html

Schaum's Outlines:

• Computer Architecture
• Logic
• Digital Principles
• Introduction to Digital System