Sukumar Ghosh, 201P Maclean Hall, 319-335-0738, ghosh@cs.uiowa.edu
Class meeting time: TTh 3:55 - 5:10 PM, 4030 SC
Office hours: TTh 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Chen Zhang, 201N MLH, chenzhan@cs.uiowa.edu
Office hours 2-5 Wednesdays, or by appointment.
Patterson D.A. and Hennessy J.H. ``Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware Software Interface'' (3rd edition) Elsevier 2005. In addition, readings will be assigned from a list of papers.
Basic knowledge of Digital Logic, Computer Organization, Assembly Language Programming, and elementary systems software concepts like Virtual Memory, Multiprogramming etc.
There will be two examinations.
Exam 1 (35%) : March 2, 6-8 PM, 140 SH
Exam 2 (35%) : May 11, 7:30-9:30 AM, 4030 SC
There will be five home assignments, which will account for the remaining 30% of the grades.
The instructor reserves the right to make minor modifications in the
above grading scale.
A+ = 95-100 B+ = 80-84 C+ = 65-69 D+ = 50-54 F = 0-39
A = 90-94 B = 75-79 C = 60-64 D = 45-49
A- = 85-89 B- = 70-74 C- = 55-59 D- = 40-44
Homework 1
Solution to homework 1 (by Chen Zhang)
Homework 2
Solution to homework 2 (by Chen Zhang)
(The last line for question 1
part a should be "Reg[IR[20:16]]" instead of "Reg[IR[15:11]]")
Homework 3
Solution to homework 3 (by Chen Zhang)
Homework 4
Solution to homework 4 (by Chen Zhang)
Homework 5
Solution to homework 5 (by Chen Zhang)
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January 17, 2006 Lecture 1. Introduction: Important Architectural Issues Read Chapter 1. Refresh your background |
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January 19, 2006 Lecture 2. Instruction Set Design: Understanding the MIPS Processor Read Chapter 2. |
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January 24, 2006 Lecture 3. Understanding the MIPS Processor (continued) Read Chapter 2. |
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January 26, 2006 Lecture 4. Designing the MIPS Processor Read Chapter 5. Homework 1 assigned. |
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January 31, 2006 Lecture 5. From single-cycle to multi-cycle MIPS Read Chapter 5. |
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February 2, 2006 Lecture 6. Designing the control unit of multi-cycle MIPS Read Chapter 5. Also read Appendix C on the CD at the end of the textbook |
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February 6, 2006 Lecture 7. The IA-32 Architecture Read Section 2.16. Also visit the Intel page |
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February 9, 2006 Lecture 8. Introduction to Pipelining Read Chapter 6. |
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February 14, 2006 Lecture 9. Dealing with branches in pipelined processors Read Chapter 6. |
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February 14, 2006 Lecture 10. Handling exceptions and floating point operations Read Chapter 6. Homework 2 assigned. |
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February 21, 2006 Lecture 11. The Memory Hierarchy Read Chapter 7. |
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February 23, 2006 Lecture 12. Cache memory Read Chapter 7. |
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February 28, 2006 Lecture 13. Cache memory (continued) Read Chapter 7. |
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March 2, 2006 Lecture 14. Exam review and case study Exam 1 today 6-8 PM 140 SH. |
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March 7, 2006 Lecture 15. Virtual memory Read Section 7.4. |
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March 9, 2006 Lecture 15. Implementing Virtual memory Read Section 7.5. Homework 3 will be posted tomorrow - it is due 3/23 |
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March 21, 2006 Lecture 16. Dynamic pipeline scheduling and dynamic branch prediction Read Sections 6.9 and 6.6. Midterm exam has been graded |
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March 23, 2006 Lecture 17. Dynamic branch prediction, Instruction Level Parallelism Read Section 6.9 |
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March 28, 2006 Lecture 18. More about Instruction Level Parallelism & Review of Pentium micro-architecture Read this article Read Section 6.10, 6.11 |
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March 30, 2006 Lecture 19. Computer Arithmetic Read Appendix B |
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April 4, 2006 Lecture 20. Floating point numbers and algorithms Read Chapter 4 |
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April 6, 2006 Lecture 21. Classification of architectures: Introduction to multiprocessing Read Chapter 9 (9.1-9.3 on the CD) Homework 4 assigned. |
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April 11, 2006 Lecture 22. Multiprocessing: Interconnection Networks and Performance Issues Read Chapter 9 (from the CD) |
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April 13, 2006 Lecture 23. Storage and Input-Output Read Chapter 8 |
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April 18, 2006 Lecture 24. Case Study: Transmeta's Crusoe Processor Notes |
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April 20, 2006 Lecture 25. Multiprocessor Cache Coherence MESI protocol Homework 5 will be assigned tomorrow, due 4/27/06 |
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April 25, 2006 Lecture 26. Multiprocessor Synchronization Read Chapter 9 from CD |
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April 27, 2006 Lecture 27. Multiprocessor Synchronization (continued) Read Chapter 9 from CD |
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May 2, 2006 Lecture 28. Benchmarking and performance issues |
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May 4, 2006 Lecture 29. Review |