Instructor:
Dr. Robert Walker
walker@cs.kent.eduMSB 351, (330) 672-9105
Office hours = TR 2-4pm, or by appointment
Syllabus
- Syllabus (2/28/11)
Exams
- 3/7/11 -- Midterm Exam 1
Exam
Solution
(open book / notes exam covering class material 1/19/11 - 2/16/11) - 4/4/11 -- Midterm Exam 2
Exam
Solution
(open book / notes exam covering class material 2/21/11 - 3/14/11) - 5/6/11 -- Final Exam
Exam
Solution
(open book / notes exam covering class material 4/6/11 - 4/25/11)
Lecture Notes
- 1/10/11 -- Course Introduction
- 1/12/11 -- Class Cancelled
- 1/17/11 -- Class Cancelled (Martin Luther King Jr. Day)
- 1/19/11 -- Computer Architecure Review
Computer Architecture, Intel (lecture 1)
- 1/24/11 -- Computer Architecure Review (cont.)
Computer Architecture, Intel (lectures 2-4) - 1/26/11 -- x86 Architecture
Architecture of the Pentium Microprocessor , IEEE CS DL
X86 Assembly / X86 Architecture , Wikibooks
x86 , Wikipedia
Discussants: Abdulelah, Fadi, Fletcher, Khalid, Nouh, Omar
- 1/31/11 -- RISC Architecture
Reduced Instruction Set Computer , ACM DL
A Conversation with John Hennessy and David Patterson , ACM DL
Discussants: Kathy, Mayank, Raja, Steven, Tiyseer, Vamsi - 2/2/11 --
Class Cancelled (Snow Day)
- 2/7/11 -- RISC Controversy
Instruction Sets and Beyond: Computers, Complexity, and Controversy , IEEE CS DL
Discussants: Amulya, Harsha, Shruti, Tanvi - 2/9/11 -- Pentium Pro (P6)
Intel's P6 Uses Decoupled Superscalar Design , from Penn State
P6 Underscores Intel's Lead , Access Restricted
The Pentium Chronicles: Introduction , IEEE CS DL
Discussants: Gowtham, Lin, Poornakumar, Rajesh, Ranga, Surekha
- 2/14/11 -- Alpha 21164
Digital Leads the Pack with 21164 , Access Restricted
Superscalar Instruction Execution in the 21164 Alpha Microprocessor (just skim this one), IEEE CS DL
Discussants: Abdullah, Ahmed, Leenah, Reem, Waleed - 2/16/11 -- Branch Prediction
A Study of Branch Prediction Strategies , ACM DL
Alternative Implementations of Two-Level Adaptive Branch Prediction (sections 1-3), ACM DL
Discussants: Amogh, Brian, Krishna, Swapna, Vineesh
- 2/21/11 -- High-Level (Behavioral) Syntheis I
Automatic Data Path Syntheis , IEEE CS DL
Discussants: Fletcher, Raja, Reem, Swapna - 2/23/11 -- High-Level (Behavioral) Syntheis II
Tutorial on High-Level Synthesis , ACM DL
Discussants: Abdulelah, Fadi, Khalid, Omar, Nouh
- 2/28/11 -- Hardware Description Languages
Using VHDL for Synthesis of Digital Hardware , Access Restricted
Discussants: Gowtham, Leenah, Rajesh, Shruti, Steven - 3/2/11 -- Field-Programmable Logic Devices
Programmable Logic Technology , Access Restricted
Discussants: Amogh, Amulya, Krishna, Tiyseer, Vamsi, Vineesh
- 3/7/11 -- Midterm Exam 1
(open book / notes exam covering class material 1/19/11 - 2/16/11) - 3/9/11 -- Class Cancelled
Lecture Notes (cont.)
- 3/14/11 -- Hardware / Software Co-Design
Hardware / Software Co-Design , from Penn State
(skip III.C.,
read only the first three paragraphs of IV.A., and
read only the first paragraph of IV.B.2., and IV.B.3)
Discussants: Harsha, Lin, Poornakumar, Ranga, Surekha, Tanvi - 3/16/11 -- System Level Design
System-Level Design: Orthogonalization of Concerns and Platform-Based Design , from Penn State
(SKIM I-IV, skip rest)
Discussants: Abdullah, Ahmed, Brian, Kathy, Mayank, Waleed
- 3/21/11 -- Class Cancelled (Spring Break)
- 3/23/11 -- Class Cancelled (Spring Break)
- 3/28/11 -- Class Cancelled
- 3/30/11 -- Review for Midterm Exam 2
- 4/4/11 -- Midterm Exam 2
(open book / notes exam covering class material 2/21/11 - 3/14/11) - 4/6/11 -- ARM Cortex-A9 Processor
ARM Architecture , Wikipedia
ARM Processors , ARM's products list
ARM Cortex-A9 Processor , ARM's overview
ARM Cortext-A9 Processor , ARM White Paper
Discussants: Abdullah, Ahmed, Fadi, Leenah, Raja, Waleed
- 4/11/11 -- TM3270 Media Processor
TriMedia Media Processor , Wikipedia
The TM3270 Media-Processor , ACM DL
Discussants: Gowtham, Harsha, Poornakumar, Shruti, Swapna, Tanvi - 4/13/11 -- Simultaneous Multithreading
Simultaneous Multithreading: Maximizing On-Chip Parallelism , ACM DL
Discussants: Amogh, Amulya, Krishna, Rajesh, Ranga, Vamsi
- 4/18/11 -- ClearSpeed CSX700
ClearSpeed , Wikipedia
CSX700 Processor , ClearSpeed's overview
CSX700 Datasheet , ClearSpeed's products list
Advance e710 development board , ClearSpeed's overview
Discussants: Abdulelah, Kathy, Nouh, Omar, Steven, Vineesh - 4/20/11 -- IBM Cell Processor
Introduduction to the Cell Multiprocessor , from Univ Texas
Discussants: Brian, Fletcher, Reem, Surekha, Tiyseer, Vamsi
- 4/25/11 -- Moore's Law & Multicore
Spending Moore's Dividend , ACM DL
Discussants: Abdulelah, Khalid, Lin, Mayank - 4/27/11 -- Review for Final Exam
- 5/6/11 FRIDAY, 10:15-12:30 -- Final Exam
(open book / notes exam covering class material 4/6/11 - 4/25/11)
Exams
- to be added...