Day 1

• Define the architectural state of a machine.
• List the items in the ARM architectural state.
• Compare and contrast the Princeton and Harvard organizations.
• Define the Princeton bottleneck.
• Describe if modern systems are Princeton organized, Harvard organized, or both.
• Describe the ARM program counter component.
• Describe the ARM instruction memory ROM.
• Describe the ARM register file component.
• Describe the ARM ALU component.
• Describe the ARM data memory RAM.
• Use the ARM instruction formats to organize a single-cycle processor.

Day 2

• Draw the ARM single-cycle processor designed in lecture. Do it again! Practice drawing the blueprint over and over.
• Write the values of the control signals that must be generated by the controller of the ARM single-cycle processor for each implemented instruction.
• State the result of stuck-at faults on ARM single-cycle processor control signals.

Day 3

• Draw the ARM single-cycle processor designed in lecture. Do it again! Practice drawing the blueprint over and over.
• State the ARM instruction that requires the longest delay.
• Calculate the minimum clock period for an ARM single-cycle processor given specific component propagation delays.
• State the execution time equation.
• Use the execution time equation given instruction specifications.