MIPS ISA

What is a load$-$store architecture?

What is an Instruction Set Architecture $($ISA$)$ and what are some ways the ISA reflects the relationship between the hardware implementation and the software interface?

What are $3$ types of instructions $($in terms of types of operations$),$ and what are the $3$ different instruction encoding formats?

Reasoning about the relationships between instruction set design and hardware capabilities

MIPS Addressing modes

What are the $5$ MIPS addressing modes, when are they used

Conversion of constants encoded in instructions to MIPS memory addresses

MIPS Instructions

Encode to binary from MIPS source code

Decode from binary to MIPS source code

Reasoning about the relationships between different fields in encoded instructions and impact on the hardware$/$software interface design

MIPS Pseudoinstructions: what are they, providing implementations for them

MIPS Procedures

Register usage conventions: arguments, return values

The role of the stack, stack management

MIPS code: given a snippet of MIPS code

Explain what the code is doing in simple language

Determine if the code has bugs, and if so$,$ how to explain and fix them

Execute the code by hand, answer questions about the state of registers upon completion

MIPS$/$C$/$C$++$ coding:

Write small snippets of code that implement concepts

Design patterns: conditionals, looping, procedure calls, memory access$/$data movement, arithmetic computations

Source code to running machine code

What are the steps needed going from source code in a high level language to machine code that is executing on some platform