CompSystems 245 - Week 1 - Lecture 1, 2 and 3 - CPU instructions

Describe the microprocessor:

• What it is

• What it does

• How it does it

• Digital integrated circuit

  • A semiconductor that processes discrete signals

    • binary high (1) and low (0) voltage states

    • not analog signals

  • uses millions of transistors

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Describe the microcontrolle:

• why its needed

• what it is

• its components

Describe the microcontroller:

• Its memory

• the processor

• its peripherals

• the pcb

• what kind of microcontrollers are there

• embedded system

Describe the STM32f407VG microcontroller:

• Its processor

• its program memory

• its non-volatile memory

• input peripherals

• output peripherals

Describe what is meant by architecture of a computer:

• what it is

• what architecture we use

  • what that architecture is

  • its operational size

Describe what is meany by the instructions and operands of a computer:

• what are instructions

• what is an instruction set

• what is an operation

• what is an operand

• give an example of an instruction

Describe machine and assembly language in relation to instructions:

• what is machine language

• the size of our architecture instructions

• what microprocessors do with machine language

• what is assembly language

Describe how a CPU process instructions:

• what it takes in

• how it processes inputs

Describe how a CPU uses memory to process instructions:

• why it uses memory

• what the memory is

• size of read/writes to/from memory

  • term for blocks of memory

Describe memory:

• the types

  • their purpose

  • their location depending on architecture types

Describe the process of instruction handling by a CPU:

• the steps

  • their description

• A schematic of pipeline processing in relation to the stm32f407vgt microcontroller

Describe the cycles per instruction of the STM32F407VGT processor:

• why some may differ from others

• effect of altering the PC

Describe briefly how instructions in both C and assembly are processed and executed:

• The steps

Describe the translation step of processing code for execution:

• For C code

• For assembly code

• What is produced

Describe the linker when compiling source code:

• What it is

• what it does

• what gets produced