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Arithmetic: - Performance (Seconds, Cycles, Instructions) - Abstractions

The document discusses arithmetic and number representation in computing systems, including binary numbers, signed integers, and different encoding schemes for representing negative numbers like ones' complement, sign-magnitude, and two's complement. It also covers arithmetic logic unit design and implementation, how arithmetic operations like addition and subtraction work in two's complement systems, and strategies for building multi-bit ALUs from individual bit-level components.

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Arithmetic: - Performance (Seconds, Cycles, Instructions) - Abstractions

The document discusses arithmetic and number representation in computing systems, including binary numbers, signed integers, and different encoding schemes for representing negative numbers like ones' complement, sign-magnitude, and two's complement. It also covers arithmetic logic unit design and implementation, how arithmetic operations like addition and subtraction work in two's complement systems, and strategies for building multi-bit ALUs from individual bit-level components.

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Arithmetic

• Where we’ve been:


– Performance (seconds, cycles, instructions)
– Abstractions:
Instruction Set Architecture
Assembly Language and Machine Language
• What’s up ahead:
– Implementing the Architecture

operation

a
32 ALU
result
32

b
32

1998 Morgan Kaufmann Publishers 64

Numbers

• Bits are just bits (no inherent meaning)


— conventions define relationship between bits and numbers
• Binary numbers (base 2)
0000 0001 0010 0011 0100 0101 0110 0111 1000 1001...
decimal: 0...2n-1
• Of course it gets more complicated:
numbers are finite (overflow)
fractions and real numbers
negative numbers
e.g., no MIPS subi instruction; addi can add a negative number)
• How do we represent negative numbers?
i.e., which bit patterns will represent which numbers?

1998 Morgan Kaufmann Publishers 65


Possible Representations

• Sign Magnitude: One’s Complement Two’s Complement


000 = +0 000 = +0 000 = +0
001 = +1 001 = +1 001 = +1
010 = +2 010 = +2 010 = +2
011 = +3 011 = +3 011 = +3
100 = -0 100 = -3 100 = -4
101 = -1 101 = -2 101 = -3
110 = -2 110 = -1 110 = -2
111 = -3 111 = -0 111 = -1

• Issues: balance, number of zeros, ease of operations


• Which one is best? Why?

1998 Morgan Kaufmann Publishers 66

MIPS

• 32 bit signed numbers:

0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000two = 0ten


0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0001two = + 1ten
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0010two = + 2ten
...
0111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1110two = + 2,147,483,646ten maxint
0111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111two = + 2,147,483,647ten
1000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000two = – 2,147,483,648ten
1000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0001two = – 2,147,483,647ten minint
1000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0010two = – 2,147,483,646ten
...
1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1101two = – 3ten
1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1110two = – 2ten
1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111two = – 1ten

1998 Morgan Kaufmann Publishers 67


Two’s Complement Operations

• Negating a two’s complement number: invert all bits and add 1


– remember: “negate” and “invert” are quite different!
• Converting n bit numbers into numbers with more than n bits:
– MIPS 16 bit immediate gets converted to 32 bits for arithmetic
– copy the most significant bit (the sign bit) into the other bits
0010 -> 0000 0010
1010 -> 1111 1010
– "sign extension" (lbu vs. lb)

1998 Morgan Kaufmann Publishers 68

Addition & Subtraction

• Just like in grade school (carry/borrow 1s)


0111 0111 0110
+ 0110 - 0110 - 0101

• Two’s complement operations easy


– subtraction using addition of negative numbers
0111
+ 1010

• Overflow (result too large for finite computer word):


– e.g., adding two n-bit numbers does not yield an n-bit number
0111
+ 0001 note that overflow term is somewhat misleading,
1000 it does not mean a carry “overflowed”

1998 Morgan Kaufmann Publishers 69


Detecting Overflow

• No overflow when adding a positive and a negative number


• No overflow when signs are the same for subtraction
• Overflow occurs when the value affects the sign:
– overflow when adding two positives yields a negative
– or, adding two negatives gives a positive
– or, subtract a negative from a positive and get a negative
– or, subtract a positive from a negative and get a positive
• Consider the operations A + B, and A – B
– Can overflow occur if B is 0 ?
– Can overflow occur if A is 0 ?

1998 Morgan Kaufmann Publishers 70

Effects of Overflow

• An exception (interrupt) occurs


– Control jumps to predefined address for exception
– Interrupted address is saved for possible resumption
• Details based on software system / language
– example: flight control vs. homework assignment
• Don’t always want to detect overflow
— new MIPS instructions: addu, addiu, subu

note: addiu still sign-extends!


note: sltu, sltiu for unsigned comparisons

1998 Morgan Kaufmann Publishers 71


Review: Boolean Algebra & Gates

• Problem: Consider a logic function with three inputs: A, B, and C.

Output D is true if at least one input is true


Output E is true if exactly two inputs are true
Output F is true only if all three inputs are true

• Show the truth table for these three functions.

• Show the Boolean equations for these three functions.

• Show an implementation consisting of inverters, AND, and OR gates.

1998 Morgan Kaufmann Publishers 72

An ALU (arithmetic logic unit)

• Let’s build an ALU to support the andi and ori instructions


– we’ll just build a 1 bit ALU, and use 32 of them

operation op a b res

a result
b

• Possible Implementation (sum-of-products):

1998 Morgan Kaufmann Publishers 73


Review: The Multiplexor

• Selects one of the inputs to be the output, based on a control input


S

note: we call this a 2-input mux


A 0 even though it has 3 inputs!
C
B 1

• Lets build our ALU using a MUX:

1998 Morgan Kaufmann Publishers 74

Different Implementations

• Not easy to decide the “best” way to build something


– Don’t want too many inputs to a single gate
– Dont want to have to go through too many gates
– for our purposes, ease of comprehension is important
• Let’s look at a 1-bit ALU for addition:
CarryIn

a
cout = a b + a cin + b cin
Sum
sum = a xor b xor cin
b

CarryOut

• How could we build a 1-bit ALU for add, and, and or?
• How could we build a 32-bit ALU?

1998 Morgan Kaufmann Publishers 75


Building a 32 bit ALU

CarryIn Operation

a0 CarryIn
Result0
ALU0
b0
CarryOut
Operation
CarryIn

a1 CarryIn
a Result1
0 ALU1
b1
CarryOut

1
Result
a2 CarryIn
Result2
2 ALU2
b2
b
CarryOut

CarryOut

a31 CarryIn
Result31
ALU31
b31

1998 Morgan Kaufmann Publishers 76

What about subtraction (a – b) ?

• Two’s complement approch: just negate b and add.


• How do we negate?

• A very clever solution:

Binvert Operation
CarryIn

a
0

1
Result

b 0 2

CarryOut

1998 Morgan Kaufmann Publishers 77

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