4003-520/4005-720 Computer Architecture , Spring 20063

What's New

• April 28th: Homework 5 is now available
• April 17th: Homework 4 is now available
• April 4th: The second project is now available.
• March 24th: Homework 2 is now available
• March 20th: The group project is now available.
• March 17th: The first project is now available.
• March 07th: New quarter

Syllabus

• 4003-520 Undergrad Syllabus
• 4005-720 Grad Syllabus
• 4005-720 Research Topic Requirements

ICSS520 Homework

NOTE all homework is due at the beginning of class.

• Homework 1: Due date: March 26
• Homework 2: Due date: April 2
  Homework 2 answers
• Homework 3: see paper handout or homework: Due date: April 9
• Homework 4: Due date: April 25
  • Answer sheet for A.1a
• Homework 5: Due date: May 9
  Homework 5 answers

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 2nd
  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 18th

  Version	Revision Notes	Date
  v1	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 04

Group Project

• Team Project NEW

  Component	Due Date
  ISA document	Mon April 16th
  Hardware & CU document	Mon April 23th
  ASM and Obj file document	Mon April 30th
  Final Project	Mon May 21st

• Test programs that you will have to convert for you ASM and Obj file document can be found in ~icsg720/pub/project_test_code

Exams

Exam 1

The planned date for exam 1 is during week 5: April 12th
• Topics List for exam 1
• TBD

Exam 2

The planned date for exam 2 is during week 10: May 17th
• Topics List for exam 2
• TBD

Class Overheads

• 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.