Lecture Notes

Course Introduction

• Course Introduction
• A short history lesson
• Setting Up a Virtual Machine
• Getting Started
• Assignment Policies

Development Techniques

• Linux Shell Basics
• GitHub Classroom Projects
• Managing a Project
• Secure GitHub Access
• Make - the programmer’s best friend
• Black Box Testing
• Travis-CI Build Scripts
• Code Libraries

Basic Concepts

• Digital Components
• Wires and Pins
• The Nature of Electricity
• Let’s Dance
• Time to Talk About Time

The CPU Factory

• The CPU Factory
• Step 1: Project Setup
• Step 2: Writing C++ Classes
• Step 3: Eliminate Smelly Code
• Step 4: Adding the Pin Class
• Step 5: Adding the Wire Class
• Step 6: Creating the Generic Component Class
• Step 7: Inverters
• Step 8: First Machine
• Top-Level Sim Design
• Fetch Unit
• Control Unit Design
• Decoder Unit
• Decoding AVR Instructions

Assembly Intro

• C Program Tear-Down
• AVR Instructions

Booleans

• Zeros and Ones
• Boolean Algebra
• Human Numbers vs Digital Numbers
• Converting Numbers
• Boolean Functions

Basic Architecture

• The Von Neumann Machine
• The Computer Dance
• Computer Performance

Formal Languages

• Formally Defining Languages

Verilog Basics

• Modern Circuit Design

Building the Machine

• Graphics in Ubuntu Linux
• Wiring the Fetch Unit
• Wiring the Stages
• Animation and the Machine
• Decoding Dilema
• Decode Unit
• Execute Stage
• Store Unit
• Final Wiring
• Control: The last step!

AVR Assembly Projects

• AVR Development Tools
• Basic AVR assembly language
• Arduino Processor
• AVR Timers
• Programming the AVR Timers
• Interrupts
• Help! My lights are making noise!
• Using Interrupts in AVR GCC
• Networking Microcontrollers

Sim GUI Interface

• Building a GLUI Control Panel
• Test Fixtures

Memory Heirarchy

• Storage Technologies
• Sum of Numbers
• Memory Access Patterns
• Inventing the Cache