UMBC CMSC 313, Computer Organization & Assembly Language, Fall 2004, Section 0101

Interrupts

Thursday 10/21, 2004

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Assigned Reading in Murdocca & Heuring:  7.6

Assigned Reading in Neveln:   

Assigned:   

Due:  Proj4

Slides (in PDF): Slides15.pdf

Topics Covered:

• Discussed Project 4.
• Interrupts versus polling for I/O.
• Interrupt controller.
• Internal interrupts (exceptions).
• Briefly discussed cache memory (not all slides on cache memory were covered).