CS1Q Computer Systems Week 19 (beginning 20th February 2006)

Preparatory reading for Lectures 9 (Tuesday 21st February) and 10 (Thursday 23rd February):

• CSI Chapter 4.
• The biography of John von Neumann (CSI Chapter 7) can also be found on the book's website.
• The ethical issue Software Piracy and Copyrighting (CSI Chapter 7) can also be found on the book's website.

Lecture slideshows:

• Lecture 9 slideshow
• Lecture 10 slideshow

Lab:

• Implementing a 7-segment display driver. Here is the worksheet.

Key points:

• addition, subtraction and a simple ALU
• finite state machines