CS330 Topics

CS330 - Computer Design & Architecture Resources

    ~Reference

  • ASCII Table

    Presents a table of all ASCII characters and their codes in decimal, octal, hexadecimal, and HTML entities.

  • MARIE CPU Simulator - Documentation

    A brief introduction to the online JavaScript version of the MARIE CPU Simulator

  • On Endianness

    Blog post from Karl Stenerud discussing the history of endianness in computing, as well as a detailed comparison of how the two storage formats perform for different computing tasks.

    • ~Tutorials

  • ARM Assembler in Raspberry Pi

    An online book and tutorial on ARM assembly programming with the Raspberry Pi computer.

  • MARIE CPU Simulator

    The online JS version of the MARIE ('Machine Architecture that is Really Intuitive and Easy') CPU simulator that accompanies the Null and Lobur textbook.

    • Binary & Logic

  • Introduction to Binary (BBC)

    Tutorial from the BBC covering both binary math and data representation

  • Logic.ly Demo

    Online version of software to create "live" circuit diagrams. Experiment with various logic gates, inputs, and outputs to gain a better of understanding of circuits and Boolean logic.

  • Why Computers Use Binary

    Tutorial from Central Connecticut State University that explains why most computers use binary (advantages to binary, etc.)