Current lab sessions:
Tuesday 1115-1245
Wednesday 1730-1900
Wednesday 1900-2030
Friday 0930-1100

using msp430 with various expansion boards

starting with story about computers and a block diagram
processor
main memory
system bus(address bus, data bus, control lines)
IO devices

inside processor/cpu: control unit and data path
inside data path: general purpose registers(r0-r15), ALU, 

smallest addressable unit in memory is the byte

if a portion of memory addresses is reserved for IO, memory mapped IO
or you can have separate IO address space

going over how to convert between bases
div by new base, remainder is the digit, bottom is highest value

flags in cpu: carry bit (C), overflow(V), zero flag(Z), negative flag(N, sign bit of result)

two's complement to represent signed numbers

one word is 2 bytes for msp430