Introduction
Module
1
Class organization: goals, schedule, and logistics (Overview)
- Hierarchy of
abstractions: from switches à gates à building blocks à datapaths à basic microprocessors and memory systems
- Relationship
between circuits and the mathematics for representing and manipulating
them
- Examples
of computing systems and relationship to course content
Information representation
- Analog
vs. Digital Signals
- Voltage
levels, noise margins, binary valued signals
- Binary
Representation of the values of physical quantities
·
Interpretation of
base 10 numbers
·
Introduction of
base number system
- Conversion from base 10 to base 2 and vice versa
- Definitions: bit, most significant bit (MSB), least significant bit (LSB)
- Range of an n-bit number
- Examples
of encodings
Questions and comments to Sudhakar
Yalamanchili