Software Developer's View of the Hardware (1 Viewer)

[Rapture]

Hey for those of you who are doing the option topic "Software Developer's view of the Hardware", how do u go about studying for it (excluding the binary arithmetic stuff)? Every textbook has something different and the syllabus itself isn't clear.

 

[bacco|007]

someone is actually doing this topic???

 

[Dario]

I'd learn :
* How to do all the calculations and conversions
* How to make truth tables
* How to design circuits for a scenario
* How to draw a half adder / full adder <!IMPORTANT!>
* Know what a flip flop does
* Know the three components of a flip flop.
* Know about the input / output data stream from / to a hardware device.
* Know ASCII 'A' is 65 and 'a' is 97.

Things not to know :

* Drawing flip flops.
* Integrated Circuits.

 

[Smurfwow]

our school is doin this option topic

 

[Milly]

Same here... it's not too bad.

Thanks for that checklist Dario

We don't need to know about stepping motors and stuff do we? I was doing a practice paper with a question about them, but we didn't learn about them at school!

 

[BraZen]

Hey Dario

You mentioned the 3 components of flip flops.
are you refering the lactch, clocking and edge trigger jazz? i was under the impression that it was beyond the scope of our cource?

 

[Dario]

Yeah, it wasn't in the Heinemann textbook, but Sam Davis said it would be good to know what they do.

 

[SamD]

The reality is that its not called a flip-flop unless it has those three components. Many texts, mistakenly call a latch a flip-flop.