Table of Contents
Part 2
Entries
Entry 5: March 2, 2012
- What action or concept of significance, as related to the course, did you experience on this date?
- that the instruction set for the cpu of cisc are divided into simular instructions
- but the risc instruction set is much smaller with just a few instuctions
- Why was this significant?
- the difference between them is a cisc is quicker but take smaller code bits but can do much more complicated things where risc can take large code but at a slower rate
- What concepts are you dealing with that may not make perfect sense?
- the register is a fixed size ussaly a 8 bit 1 byte
- What challenges are you facing with respect to the course?
- what cpu are we going to do
Entry 6: March 12, 2012
- What action or concept of significance, as related to the course, did you experience on this date?
- the search showed that both risc and sisc should have registers for andding orring notting as well as a few more to if/branch and move to allow for movment from cpu register and memory block
- Why was this significant?
- becuase these are the basic processes for the nessary cpu
- What concepts are you dealing with that may not make perfect sense?
- to implement a cisc or risc cpu
- What challenges are you facing with respect to the course?
- choosing a class wide concept to run anwith and do for a cpu emulator
Entry 7: March Day, 2012
This is a sample format for a dated entry. Please substitute the actual date for “Month Day, Year”, and duplicate the level 4 heading to make additional entries.
As an aid, feel free to use the following questions to help you generate content for your entries:
- What action or concept of significance, as related to the course, did you experience on this date?
- Why was this significant?
- What concepts are you dealing with that may not make perfect sense?
- What challenges are you facing with respect to the course?
Remember that 4 is just the minimum number of entries. Feel free to have more.
Entry 8: March 23, 2012
- What action or concept of significance, as related to the course, did you experience on this date?
- mapping of bit spacing for cpu registers and instuction set
- Why was this significant?
- with out even a minimal instruction set the cpu could and will never work
- What concepts are you dealing with that may not make perfect sense?
- GRisc concept
- What challenges are you facing with respect to the course?
- time management and progress with the project
Keywords
asm Keywords
asm Keyword 9 boolean operations
subtraction and division arent ussaly used in boolean operations how ever there are ways to reperstant the subtraction and division
Definition
boolean operations are the the mathmatics operations that a cpu performs on the boolean string provided
Demonstration
asm Keyword 10 logic gates (and,or,xor)
Definition
these gates are the bases for almost all commonly used gates minus a few do to there limited use in application
Demonstration
asm Keyword 11 Negated Logic Operations (NOT, NAND, NOR, XNOR)
Definition
these gatesa are not neglected just simple not used do to unusefullyness sence not will just spit out the oppisties and as for NAND NOR and XNOR the and or applied with not can created these
Demonstration
NAND is a and with a not tail NOR is a or with a not tail XNOR is a or followed by and followed by not
asm Keyword 12 Data Instructions (Data Movement, Address Movement, Data Conversion, Bit Manipulation)
Definition
data movement is defined in the instrcutiun set as memory to register or register ot memory or memory black to memory block or register to register address movement is a direct movment to a next step not a movment to wait bit manipulation is logic gate operations that changes the incomming bit string to something else
Demonstration
asm Keyword 13 Control and Data flow
Definition
Data flow is the concept that u know where and when a data is being used enters and exits a operation controling it is determind befor use and is determind by the instruction set registery
Demonstration
asm Keyword 14 Subroutines
Definition
subreoutines are the commends given to perform a task and must always be done inorder to determe the command given in other words subreoutines are a branched process off of a main process to deal with a issue or anotehr varible or even to change a value
Demonstration
asm Keyword 15 Storage
Definition
Storage is in simplest terms to store something in computer admistative and archutecture this means several things everything from save state such as a logic gate form register can store a single bit of info or state as well as magnetic storage is different were its not saved via gat logic but by physiacly changeing the orentation of data requested.
Demonstration
asm Keyword 16 Machine Word
Definition
Machine word is another wat to say machine lanague and is the common base lanague for all machine not just computers but ALL machines the common mistake is to think of machine lanague as of nothing but 1s and 0s that is out it is interperted by humans how ever machione lanague is much more like on and off such as is there current or isnt there current.
Demonstration
asm Objective
asm Objective
familiarity with the organization of a computer system
Definition
organization of a computer systyem can broken down to its simplist form or a register bit system for commands
Method
method of which is stil ebing covered for the most part the register is built of common table whcih is encoded into the program (aka a bios or ROM) as it stands the basic needed regsters for a computer are the three logical gate for a binary system a move from memory to register and vice versa and a 4th to accomidate movement between gates and acess to data
Measurement
the method stood almost entirely alone until we discovered the problem of which we needed certain peramiters to cover unknown quanities such as a half or full adder carry to factored in to the move or reuse of a and or a or function
Analysis
Reflect upon your results of the measurement to ascertain your achievement of the particular course objective.
- How did you do?
- unsure but it looks promising from were i stand and from what i understand of the thought process and implementation
- Is there room for improvement?
- well considering we are using a RISC instead of the more common CISC command structure yes i would have prefered to do that instead of continueing to stumble aroudn in the dark with out a flash light or a light source
- Could the measurement process be enhanced to be more effective?
- not sure all i will say
- Do you think this enhancement would be efficient to employ?
- yes for simple processes its a well thought of and simple construct
- Could the course objective be altered to be more applicable? How would you alter it?
- less threoy of what things could be and more this is the standard how could we change it type idea
hpc2 Keywords
hpc2 Keyword 9
Identification of chosen keyword (unless you update the section heading above).
Definition
Definition (in your own words) of the chosen keyword.
Demonstration
Demonstration of the chosen keyword.
If you wish to aid your definition with a code sample, you can do so by using a wiki code block, an example follows:
/* * Sample code block */ #include <stdio.h> int main() { return(0); }
Alternatively (or additionally), if you want to demonstrate something on the command-line, you can do so as follows:
lab46:~$ cd src lab46:~/src$ gcc -o hello hello.c lab46:~/src$ ./hello Hello, World! lab46:~/src$
hpc2 Keyword 10
Identification of chosen keyword (unless you update the section heading above).
Definition
Definition (in your own words) of the chosen keyword.
Demonstration
Demonstration of the chosen keyword.
If you wish to aid your definition with a code sample, you can do so by using a wiki code block, an example follows:
/* * Sample code block */ #include <stdio.h> int main() { return(0); }
Alternatively (or additionally), if you want to demonstrate something on the command-line, you can do so as follows:
lab46:~$ cd src lab46:~/src$ gcc -o hello hello.c lab46:~/src$ ./hello Hello, World! lab46:~/src$
hpc2 Keyword 11
Identification of chosen keyword (unless you update the section heading above).
Definition
Definition (in your own words) of the chosen keyword.
Demonstration
Demonstration of the chosen keyword.
If you wish to aid your definition with a code sample, you can do so by using a wiki code block, an example follows:
/* * Sample code block */ #include <stdio.h> int main() { return(0); }
Alternatively (or additionally), if you want to demonstrate something on the command-line, you can do so as follows:
lab46:~$ cd src lab46:~/src$ gcc -o hello hello.c lab46:~/src$ ./hello Hello, World! lab46:~/src$
hpc2 Keyword 12
Identification of chosen keyword (unless you update the section heading above).
Definition
Definition (in your own words) of the chosen keyword.
Demonstration
Demonstration of the chosen keyword.
If you wish to aid your definition with a code sample, you can do so by using a wiki code block, an example follows:
/* * Sample code block */ #include <stdio.h> int main() { return(0); }
Alternatively (or additionally), if you want to demonstrate something on the command-line, you can do so as follows:
lab46:~$ cd src lab46:~/src$ gcc -o hello hello.c lab46:~/src$ ./hello Hello, World! lab46:~/src$
hpc2 Keyword 13
Identification of chosen keyword (unless you update the section heading above).
Definition
Definition (in your own words) of the chosen keyword.
Demonstration
Demonstration of the chosen keyword.
If you wish to aid your definition with a code sample, you can do so by using a wiki code block, an example follows:
/* * Sample code block */ #include <stdio.h> int main() { return(0); }
Alternatively (or additionally), if you want to demonstrate something on the command-line, you can do so as follows:
lab46:~$ cd src lab46:~/src$ gcc -o hello hello.c lab46:~/src$ ./hello Hello, World! lab46:~/src$
hpc2 Keyword 14
Identification of chosen keyword (unless you update the section heading above).
Definition
Definition (in your own words) of the chosen keyword.
Demonstration
Demonstration of the chosen keyword.
If you wish to aid your definition with a code sample, you can do so by using a wiki code block, an example follows:
/* * Sample code block */ #include <stdio.h> int main() { return(0); }
Alternatively (or additionally), if you want to demonstrate something on the command-line, you can do so as follows:
lab46:~$ cd src lab46:~/src$ gcc -o hello hello.c lab46:~/src$ ./hello Hello, World! lab46:~/src$
hpc2 Keyword 15
Identification of chosen keyword (unless you update the section heading above).
Definition
Definition (in your own words) of the chosen keyword.
Demonstration
Demonstration of the chosen keyword.
If you wish to aid your definition with a code sample, you can do so by using a wiki code block, an example follows:
/* * Sample code block */ #include <stdio.h> int main() { return(0); }
Alternatively (or additionally), if you want to demonstrate something on the command-line, you can do so as follows:
lab46:~$ cd src lab46:~/src$ gcc -o hello hello.c lab46:~/src$ ./hello Hello, World! lab46:~/src$
hpc2 Keyword 16
Identification of chosen keyword (unless you update the section heading above).
Definition
Definition (in your own words) of the chosen keyword.
Demonstration
Demonstration of the chosen keyword.
If you wish to aid your definition with a code sample, you can do so by using a wiki code block, an example follows:
/* * Sample code block */ #include <stdio.h> int main() { return(0); }
Alternatively (or additionally), if you want to demonstrate something on the command-line, you can do so as follows:
lab46:~$ cd src lab46:~/src$ gcc -o hello hello.c lab46:~/src$ ./hello Hello, World! lab46:~/src$
hpc2 Objective
hpc2 Objective
State the course objective
Definition
In your own words, define what that objective entails.
Method
State the method you will use for measuring successful academic/intellectual achievement of this objective.
Measurement
Follow your method and obtain a measurement. Document the results here.
Analysis
Reflect upon your results of the measurement to ascertain your achievement of the particular course objective.
- How did you do?
- Is there room for improvement?
- Could the measurement process be enhanced to be more effective?
- Do you think this enhancement would be efficient to employ?
- Could the course objective be altered to be more applicable? How would you alter it?
Experiments
Experiment 4
Question
What is the question you'd like to pose for experimentation? State it here.
Resources
Collect information and resources (such as URLs of web resources), and comment on knowledge obtained that you think will provide useful background information to aid in performing the experiment.
Hypothesis
Based on what you've read with respect to your original posed question, what do you think will be the result of your experiment (ie an educated guess based on the facts known). This is done before actually performing the experiment.
State your rationale.
Experiment
How are you going to test your hypothesis? What is the structure of your experiment?
Data
Perform your experiment, and collect/document the results here.
Analysis
Based on the data collected:
- Was your hypothesis correct?
- Was your hypothesis not applicable?
- Is there more going on than you originally thought? (shortcomings in hypothesis)
- What shortcomings might there be in your experiment?
- What shortcomings might there be in your data?
Conclusions
What can you ascertain based on the experiment performed and data collected? Document your findings here; make a statement as to any discoveries you've made.
Experiment 5
Question
What is the question you'd like to pose for experimentation? State it here.
Resources
Collect information and resources (such as URLs of web resources), and comment on knowledge obtained that you think will provide useful background information to aid in performing the experiment.
Hypothesis
Based on what you've read with respect to your original posed question, what do you think will be the result of your experiment (ie an educated guess based on the facts known). This is done before actually performing the experiment.
State your rationale.
Experiment
How are you going to test your hypothesis? What is the structure of your experiment?
Data
Perform your experiment, and collect/document the results here.
Analysis
Based on the data collected:
- Was your hypothesis correct?
- Was your hypothesis not applicable?
- Is there more going on than you originally thought? (shortcomings in hypothesis)
- What shortcomings might there be in your experiment?
- What shortcomings might there be in your data?
Conclusions
What can you ascertain based on the experiment performed and data collected? Document your findings here; make a statement as to any discoveries you've made.
Retest 2
Perform the following steps:
State Experiment
Whose existing experiment are you going to retest? Provide the URL, note the author, and restate their question.
Resources
Evaluate their resources and commentary. Answer the following questions:
- Do you feel the given resources are adequate in providing sufficient background information?
- Are there additional resources you've found that you can add to the resources list?
- Does the original experimenter appear to have obtained a necessary fundamental understanding of the concepts leading up to their stated experiment?
- If you find a deviation in opinion, state why you think this might exist.
Hypothesis
State their experiment's hypothesis. Answer the following questions:
- Do you feel their hypothesis is adequate in capturing the essence of what they're trying to discover?
- What improvements could you make to their hypothesis, if any?
Experiment
Follow the steps given to recreate the original experiment. Answer the following questions:
- Are the instructions correct in successfully achieving the results?
- Is there room for improvement in the experiment instructions/description? What suggestions would you make?
- Would you make any alterations to the structure of the experiment to yield better results? What, and why?
Data
Publish the data you have gained from your performing of the experiment here.
Analysis
Answer the following:
- Does the data seem in-line with the published data from the original author?
- Can you explain any deviations?
- How about any sources of error?
- Is the stated hypothesis adequate?
Conclusions
Answer the following:
- What conclusions can you make based on performing the experiment?
- Do you feel the experiment was adequate in obtaining a further understanding of a concept?
- Does the original author appear to have gotten some value out of performing the experiment?
- Any suggestions or observations that could improve this particular process (in general, or specifically you, or specifically for the original author).