created 06/27/2003; small changes 05/19/2016
For these programming exercises, use only those instructions that have been discussed so far in these notes:
| add | div | mflo | slt, slti |
| addi | divu | mult | sltu, sltiu |
| addiu | j | multu | sra |
| addu | lb | nor | srl |
| and | lbu | or | sub |
| andi | lh | ori | subu |
| beq | lhu | sb | sw |
| bgez | lui | sh | xor |
| bltz | lw | sll | xori |
| bne | mfhi |
In the Simulator/Settings/MIPS menu of SPIM set Bare Machine ON, Accept Pseudo Instructions OFF, Enable Delayed Branches ON, Enable Delayed Loads ON, Enable Mapped I/O OFF, Load Exception Handler OFF.
Write a program that computes three sums:
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ... + 99 + 100 1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + ... + 97 + 99 2 + 4 + 6 + 8 + ... + 98 + 100
Use a register (say $8) for the sum of evens, a register (say $9) for the sum of odds, and another (say $10) for the sum of all numbers.
Do this with one counting loop. The loop body contains logic to add the count to the proper sums.
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With an ori instruction,
initialize $8 to a bit pattern
that represents a positive integer.
Now the program determines how many
significant bits are in the pattern.
The significant bits are
the leftmost one bit and all bits to its right.
So the bit pattern:
0000 0000 0010 1001 1000 1101 0111 1101
... has 22 significant bits.
(To load register $8 with the above pattern,
0x00298D7D, use
an ori followed by a left shift followed
by another ori.)
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A temperature in $8 is allowed
to be within either of two ranges:
20 <= temp <= 40
and
60 <= temp <= 80.
Write a program that sets a flag (register $3) to 1
if the temperature is
in an allowed range and
to 0 if the temperature is not in an allowed range.
It would be helpful to draw a flowchart before you start programming.
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Write a program that computes the median of three values in memory. After it has been found, store the median in memory.
.data
A: .word 23
B: .word 98
C: .word 17
The median of three integers is greater than or equal to one integer and less than or equal to the other. With the above three integers the median is "23". Assume that the data changes from run to run. Here is some more possible data:
.data
A: .word 9
B: .word 98
C: .word 9
With the new data, the median is "9".
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