Resources

• Learning about Hardware
  Motherboards
  • About Motherboards
  Circuits
  • http://www.play-hookey.com/digital/ is great, you get to play with flip flops.
  • http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/AoA/Windows/HTML/SystemOrganizationa2.html makes memory addressability clear (somewhat)
  • Introduction to electronics
  • Logic Gates
  • Data formats
  • A general CPU with code
  • Integer multiplication and division
  • SPIM IO
  • Floating point instructions
  • Cache memory
  • Virtual Memory
• Learning Logisim (Circuit Simulator)
  • YouTube Logisim Tutorials
• Programming in Assembly
  Learning MIPS
  • Learning MIPS online book
  PCSPIM (an assembler emulator for the PC)
  • The install ZIP
  • Sample Code Number 1 and Number 2
  • SPIM documentation DOC1 and DOC2
• Web Tools
  • http://www.geda.seul.org/ is a good tool for drawing circuits.
  • Check out ktechlab