Computer Organization I, Autumn 2005, Study Circle Project PR 2

Report contents are defined in the Study Circle description and the report deadline 4.12.2005 at 23:55.

1. Design and implement one (1) practice problem.
   
   The topic for the practice problem is selected in the following manner:
   1. Take the day part of each participants birt date (E.g., number 5, if you were born 5.3.1988)
   2. Add up all day parts. (E.g., 5+13+8+25 = 51)
   3. Divide by four, take remainder and add five. (E.g., . "51 mod 4" +5 = 3+5 = 8)
   4. use the result to select the lecture number for your topic. (E.g., Lecture 8)
      
2. Use of Data in Computer
   
   Write a 4-5 page article (good language, plain text, no picture, no graphs) on the topic given above. It must not be more than 6 pages long. Forexample, ponder the following subtopics:
   1. Does data type matter? Does system hardware matter?
   2. How does one process different types of data?
   3. How to handle data types not supported by the processor? (E.g., floating points or character strings in some systems)
   4. How handle data, that does not fit into machine instruction constant part? (E.g., big number or wrong type)
   5. How handle data, that does not fit into processor register? (E.g., an array or a record)
   6. How handle data, that does not fit into computer system memory ? (E.g., large data base)
   7. What kind of purposes can one use integer instructions?
   8. What is the effect of computer networks indata representation and use?
   
   In your presentation please notice:
   1. The target audience is other students in this course. So, you can not assume any more background knowledge than what is required for this course and that has been covered in this course before this topic. All concepts not in the background knowledge should be introduced and explained in the presentation. The presentation should be easy to read for the target audience.
   2. The goal is to give (within the article length limit given) an exhaustive, educating presentation, that could be used as study material for this course.
   3. A good article states its goals right at the beginning, has a clear structure with a final summary. All text is new - it does not have any direct quotes or translations. The references are given at the end. For web references please give the URL and the date of which that URL was checked.
   4. The presentation will be published in the course web pages and it can be used as study material for later courses (if it is good, and the permission for such use is granted in project report).