| ECE291 |
Computer Engineering II |
J. W. Lockwood |
Exam II Review
Exam II Material
- Major Topics
- All lectures up to and including Networking and Floating point.
- All material on MP3, MP4, and MP5
- All material on HW3, HW4, and Floating point sections of HW5
- Table Lookups/Jump Tables
- Interrupt Service Routines
- ISR Scheduling (timing analysis)
- Workings of DOS/BIOS/vBIOS
- Ports, I/O Subsystem, and devices
- Video Graphics
- String Operations (MOVS, CMPS, STOS)
- Things to Remember
- Efficient programming techniques
(Algorithms and ASM Opcodes)
- How programmers communicate with I/O devices
- How to write on graphics-mode screens
(including basic palette)
- Scheduling of preemptive and nonpreemptive tasks.
- Floating point number representation
- Things to Forget (reference)
- Which AL/AH/INT numbers to use for BIOS/vBIOS/DOS calls
- Numeric values for specific devices (they will be given)
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