UMBC CMSC 313, Computer Organization & Assembly Language, Spring 2013

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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Assigned:         Due:   

Data Representation II

Assigned Reading in Null & Lobur:  2.1–2.4, 2.6

Assigned Reading in Duntemann:   

Actual Slides (in PDF): Slides02.pdf

Topics:

• Little endian vs big endian
• Representing negative integers
• Two's complement and modulo arithmetic
• Floating point formats
• Character codes