Goals - Introductory Assembly Programming

Know the instruction types and formats of a RISC instruction set.
Know how fields associated with opcode, register operands, and immediate operands can be decoded into control signals for the single cycle datapath.
Using a MIPS-like ISA, be able to write simple straight-line assembly code sequences, including arithmetic, memory, and branching operations, using the expanded single cycle datapath.
Use conditional branches are used to implement if-then-else and loop constructs in assembly language programs.
Use SLT and SLTI to implement all comparative branch types.
Understand how conditional branches can be implemented in the single cycle datapath.
Use definition of BEQ and BNE to compute word and byte branch offsets for forward and backward branches.
Understand the branch range of the branch and jump instructions. Know the difference between absolute and relative branching.