4003-520/4005-720 Computer Architecture , Spring 20053

What's New

May 16th: Added two of the students presentation material to the ~icsg720/pub/053_talks directory.
Also, added the review session for exam 2.
May 10th: Homework 5 answers are available.
Updated the grading of the reasearch presentation based our discussion in class.
April 27th: Homework 5 is now available.
April 24th: Added the test programs that you will have to convert for your project.
April 17th: Homework 4 is now available.
April 10th: Posted due dates for Group Project
April 08th: Posted a new version of the Project 2.
April 06th: Answers to Homework 2 is now available.
April 04th: Homework 3 is now available.
Posted 2nd project
March 27th: Homework 2 is now available.
March 15th: Homework 1 is now available.
March 08th: New quarter

Syllabus

4003-520 Under-grad Syllabus
4005-720 Grad Syllabus

4005-720 Research Topic Requirements
There has been a change to the grading of the Research Presentation. The practice presentations have been canceled, and the 3 pts for their grade will be added to the final presentation grade. This gives the following grade break down for the presentation: NEW

Component Weight

Topic Registration 2%

Practice Presentation 0%

Class Presentation 8%

Class Evaluation 2%

Component	Weight
Topic Registration	2%
Practice Presentation	0%
Class Presentation	8%
Class Evaluation	2%

ICSS520 Homework

NOTE all homework is due at the beginning of class.

Homework 1: Due date: March 27
Homework 2: Due date: April 3
Homework 3: Due date: April 10
Homework 4: Due date: April 26
- Answer sheet for A.1a
Homework 5: Due date: May 8

Projects

NOTES for all projects

all Projects are electronically submitted and are due at 11:59:59pm on the specified date.
A series of tests will be run against your project submission; however, only some of these will be displayed as they are run.
IF YOU INTERRUPT 'try' BEFORE IT COMPLETES, NONE OF YOUR FILES WILL BE SUBMITTED.
You may find Prof. Carithers common project Q/A from previous quarters file to be helpful.
A couple students have put done some work to get the arch package to compile under gcc. Here are the gcc notes

Project 1 Due date: April 3rd
Supporting Documentation
- NOTE the provided sample object file(s) may not cover all the possible instructions, no less all the possible interesting conditions of the instructions. I highly recommend that you create some of your own files for testing.

Project 2 Due date: April 19th

Version	Revision Notes	Date
v2	Updated the description for PC-relative address mode to clarify what value the PC would have. Fixed the sample output to be correct. Now the output is generated by the solution as opposed to by hand. Note that if the PC-relative or displacement address mode generate an address that is outside the address space, you should just use the truncated location (ignore the ALU overflow when computing these AMs).	April 08

Group Project

Team Project

Component Due Date

ISA document Mon April 17th

Hardware & CU document Mon April 24th

ASM and Obj file document Mon May 1st

Final Project Mon May 22nd
Test programs that you will have to convert for you ASM and Obj file document can be found in ~icsg720/pub/project_test_code

Component	Due Date
ISA document	Mon April 17th
Hardware & CU document	Mon April 24th
ASM and Obj file document	Mon May 1st
Final Project	Mon May 22nd

Exams

Exam 1

April 12th

Topics List for exam 1
A help session for the exam will be held in the CS Conference room (70-3000) April 12th from 4-5pm

Exam 2

May 17th

Topics List for exam 2
A help session for the exam will be held in the CS Conference room (70-3000) Wed. May 17th from 4-5pm

Class Overheads

Unless otherwise noted, all overheads are taken from Prof. Carithers class notes

Comp. Arch. introduction and Notes on the Arch library
Comp. Arch. cost and performance
Control Unit Design
Instruction Set Architecture
Pipelining
Scoreboarding
Dynamic Branch Prediction
Memory Hierarchy
Improving Cache Performance
I/O Systems - from notes by Dr. Guihai Chen
more notes will become available as times goes on

Documents

NOTE, make sure your NAME is on every document and file you send to me.
All assignments need to be handed to me directly, or turned in to the Computer Science Office (70-3005) on the specified due date. I DO NOT ACCEPT ASSIGNMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN SLID UNDER MY OFFICE DOOR!
Refence book for information on control sequencers:
Computer Organization and Design 3rd edition by Patterson and Hennessy. Morgan Kaufmann 2005
Specificly look for information in:
- Chapter 5, The Processor Datapath and Control
Note this book is used by the Computer Organization class (4003-345 & 4003-710) so should be available in the bookstore.
Notes about the arch library:
- A simple document describing the structure of the arch library: PostScript, PDF
- C++ Architecture Library documentation produced by Rational Rose is available in HTML and MSWord format.
  For those who want a better view of the relationships between the various classes in the arch2-2 library.
- You may find Prof. Carithers answers to common questions about the arch library to be helpful.
- Prof. Carithers description of the arch library object module format may be useful if you want to build your own test programs.
Computer Architecture: Design Using RTL, an introduction to the use of RTL in design (from 0603-352, Computer Organization)).
Computer Architecture: Microprogrammed Control Units, an introduction to microprogrammed design (from 0603-352, Computer Organization)).
Preparing color transparencies for printing
- The color printer is loaded with transparencies, which are fairly expensive commodities, so it is important that you prepare your slides properly and preview them before printing to avoid waste (and to keep us from having a lab fee!)
WML services: preparing color transparencies
CS 4 standards document for C++.
Note these are only a guideline for how I want your code to look. Specifically I want your code to be neat, clear, and consistent. I'm looking for:

reasonable length functions
program file headers with your name
function and class headers
clear and consistent indentation

Beginners guide to high performance computing (some nice definitions). High Performance Computing . A little simple, but it could be useful.

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