The midterm will be similar to the homeworks in terms of both content and format. Here is a list of some of the types of questions you might encounter on the midterm.
Good luck on this midterm! Here are the topics to prepare for: Conversion to binary Conversion from binary to decimal Little Endianness Shifting Binary operations Bit masking Arithmetic shifting Binary-to-unsigned conversion Calculating UMax and UMin, TMax and Tmin Unsigned-to-two's-complement conversion Two's-complement-to-unsigned conversion What values are unchanged between unsigned and two's complement conversion for a given # of bits Truncation Addition unsigned Overflow types and causes Additive inverses Unsigned mult Two's complement multiplication Multiplication as combination of shifts and adds Convert a fractional value into binary Convert a binary value into a fraction Floating-point (how to interpret from binary)
