Exam # 1 Review Info

The UCF 3402 handout on the RISC machine

all parts of the handout except the parts that deal specifically with Pass 2 (like the parts on External References and the parts on Object Code output in pages 7, 8, 9)
be able to read the program code section of page 8 to the extent that you understand what each section (.CONTS, .DATA, and .CODE) is used for and what the assembler has to do with the declarations or instructions within those sections. (Ignore the .EXTERN section) For example, if I ask what an instruction like ADDI R4, R7, %1A3C does, you should be able to tell me that it adds the hexidecimal value 1A3C to the contents of register 7 and stores that result in register 4.
be able to use the table in the RISC Instruction handout (the RISChandout.xls spreadsheet) and understand what the program code is doing. For example, if I were to ask the above question about what ADDI R4, R7, %1A3C does, you should be able to tell me how many operands ADDI has, which format it uses and what it is doing, based on the table.

Chapter 1:

the differences between CISC and RISC architectures and any major advantages or disadvantages of each (for example, but not limited to, number of registers, general-purpose vs. special-use registers, fixed vs variable-length instruction lengths, etc.)
any CISC-specific questions will refer to the SIC and SIC/XE machine on pages 5-12
and RISC-specific questions will refer to the UCF 3402 handout

Chapter 2:

pages 44-54 on what assemblers do in pass1: data structures and algorithms, output formats, terminology

pages 92-102, limited to the major differences between one-pass and multi-pass assemblers. for example, what advantages/limitations do we have with one-pass assemblers that we don't have with multi-pass?
addressing modes: (how they work, NOT the SIC syntax or the use of the n, i, x, b, p, e bits)