CS 251 Reference Material

• Electronically submitting programs
  
  
• MIPS Home Page
• MIPS Resource Library and Documentation
• SPIM Home Page (Downloading (both Windows and Unix) ; Documentation)
• SPIM Documentation
• Better SPIM Reference Manual Appendix A: Assemblers, Linkers, and the SPIM Simulator from the third edition of Hennessy & Patterson, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface. An overview and reference manual for spim and the MIPS32 instruction set.
• Some "Getting-Started" documentation:
  • Getting Started with SPIM Overview of the console version of spim (both Unix and Windows).
  • Getting Started with XSPIM Overview of the X-windows version of spim.
  • Getting Started with PCSPIM Overview of the Microsoft Windows version of spim.
  • SPIM Command-Line Options. Overview of the command line options of spim (all versions).
• Mac OSX binaries
• Intel Pentium 4
• Wikipedia Two’s complement
• Decimal to IEEE 754 Calculators
• Prof. W. Kahan on IEEE 754(pdf) (see p. 4 for a discussion of significant decimal digits)
  
  

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