Test Review

The test on Wednesday 11/12/08 covers chapters 6 & 7 and RISC and home works 4, 5, and 6.

• know how a fetch is done in micro instructions
• RISC vs CISC comparison (no case studies)
• parameter passing and subroutine
• subroutine call
• offset of local variables
• stack frame
• 1&2 dimensional arrays -- know how to declare and how to access
• compare performance from one computer to another
• basic concepts
• coding - traverse table to find largest/smallest item in an array and add 2 items to an array
• how hardware supports software
• NO pipe lining will be on the test
• NO linked list per Chi