Midterm Topics

Overview

The midterm will cover everything we've done thus far. The format will be short answer. Below are the topics you can expect to be on the exam:

C Programming

• Understanding of pointers, arrays and structures.
• Understand operation of the bitwise operators (~, &, |, ^).
• Be able to interpret short C programs.
• Be able to write snippets of C to accomplish some task.

Game Boy Advance

• Know how the graphics modes of the GBA function at a high level.
• Understand the idea of a hardware register.
• Understand the GBA numerical representation of color.
• Understand writing to video memory, and using a palette.
• Understand the concepts of double-buffering, and the video blank cycle.

You will not need to remember specific memory addresses related to the GBA.

Numbers and Bases

• Converting back and forth between bases 2, 10 and 16.
• Representing negative numbers with two's complement.

Logic Circuits

• Understanding of transistors, logic gates and simple circuits.
• Be able to build a simple circuit given a truth table or boolean expression.
• Be able to give the output for circuits given their inputs.