CS 2734 Computer Organization II Lectures, Week 1


Part 1: Overview of Computer Organization

Read: Chapter 1 of PH


SKILL: You should have an appreciation of the significance of Moore's law.

Part 2: Number Representations and Base Conversions

Read PH 4.1


SKILL: You should be able to quickly perform arbitrary base conversions.


Part 3: Signed Number Representations

Read PH 4.2


SKILL: You should be able to write the bit patterns down for 4 bit numbers and identify their equivalent decimal representations for the four representations (unsigned, one's complement, two's complement, sign-magnitude). You should be able to find the representation of a number in any of the three signed number representations. You should be able to perform arithmetic on signed numbers in 1's complement and 2's complement.


Revision Date: 8/27/98