CMPUT 229 Course Pack Contents

Source	Pages	Numbered	Topics
Bryant	454 - 536	1 - 82	Caches & coding
Bryant	730 - 764	83 - 117	Dynamic memory allocation

Goodman	287 - 306	119 - 130	I/O - polling vs. interrupts
Goodman	307 337	130 - 145	Handling interrupts in MIPS

Hennessy	104 - 131	149 - 162	Mapping C to assembly
Hennessy	132 - 170	163 - 182	Procedures, Addressing, tool chain
Hennessy	171 - 189	182 - 191	Pointers & arrays; PowerPC and x86
Hennessy	192 - 206	193 - 200	Questions
Hennessy	275 - 301	201 - 214	Floating point
Hennessy	230 - 241	215 - 220	Bit-slice ALU
Hennessy	322 - 329	221 - 224	Questions

Patt & Patel	19 - 37	228 - 237	Data types
Patt & Patel	47 - 65	238 - 247	Digital logic
Patt & Patel	224 - 230	248 - 251	Relating C to assembly; C preprocessor
Patt & Patel	247 - 253	252 - 255	Variables & storage -stack, heap, etc.
Patt & Patel	365 - 384	256 - 266	Pointers & arrays

References

[Bryant] Randal E. Bryant and David O'Hallaron, Computer Systems: A Programer's Perspective, Prentice Hall, 2003.
[Goodman] James Goodman and Karen Miller, A Programmer's View of Computer Architecture, with assembly language examples from the MIPS RISC architecture, Oxford University Press, 1993.
[Hennessy] John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson, Computer Organization and Design, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc.
[P & P] Yale N. Patt and Sanjay J. Patel, Introduction to Computing Systems: from bits & gates to C & Beyond, McGrawHill Press, 2001.