Day 1

• List the typical things defined in an instruction set architecture.
• Compare and contrast CISC and RISC architectures.
• Compare and contrast stack, accumulator, and general-purpose register architectures.
• List the four modern design rules.
• List classic CISC and RISC architectures.
• Define instructions.
• Define instruction set.
• Describe the difference between Assembly language and machine language.
• Draw the programmatic language pyramid showing high-level languages at the top of the pyramid, assembly language in the middle of the pyramid, and machine language at the bottom of the pyramid. How does position in the pyramid represent size of the code?
• State the name of the software tool that translates high-level language to assembly language.
• State the name of the software tool that translates assembly language to machine language.
• Define computer organization.
• Describe ARM as a historical RISC processor. Include its decade of introduction, its average yearly sales, and examples of where ARM processors are used.

Day 2

• Describe the impact the number of instructions has on mneumonic encoding and thus circuit design.
• Describe the impact the number of instructions has on code density thus instruction storage size.
• State the bit width of every ARM instruction.
• Define mnemonic.
• Define opcode.
• Define source operands.
• Define destination operand.
• Identify the source and destination operands in a high-level arithmetic assignment statement.
• State the number of ARM registers.
• Tabulate the ARM registers and suggested usage.
• Describe the ARM add and subtract assembly language statements.
• Draw flowcharts to represent computational thinking algorithms.
• Translate flowcharts to ARM assembly language using temporary registers and saved registers.

Day 3

• Define immediate.
• State the range of immediate widths on ARM.
• State the memory size in the ARM architecture.
• State if system organization must provide the entire memory size of the ARM architecture.
• Describe a byte-addressable memory.
• Describe the ARM load register instruction.
• Describe the ARM store register instruction.
• Identify the base register and the offset in an ARM memory transfer instruction.
• Draw flowcharts to represent computational thinking algorithms.
• Translate flowcharts to ARM assembly language using temporary registers and saved registers.