CPSC 614: Computer Architecture

CPSC 614: Computer Architecture

Spring 2008

Syllabus html

Important Dates

Midterm – March 5, Wednesday 2:45-4:00
Final – May 6, Tuesday 10:30-12:30
Final Project Presentation – April 30, the detailed schedule is posted.

Announcement

· 4/28 – The deadline for HW4 : May 3 10:00 AM, The solutions will be available in the afternoon (2:00 PM. May 3).

· 4/28- The deadline for final report – April 30 when you come to the conference session for your presentation.

The deadline for source code (turning) – 11:59 PM 4/30

· 4/21- HW4 has been posted.

· 4/16 – HW3 deadline is extended to 11:59 P.M. 4/16 for turn in source code and 10:00 A.M 4/17 for the report.

· 3 /25 – Study Quiz 2 materials.

· Project Description is available.

· HW1 deadline is extended to Friday 11:59 P.M. (source code : CSnet, hard copy of report : the box in front of 427C)

· 2/25 - HW1 clarification on the first question of the predictor table size change in Section 2.

When you decrease the table size 0.5X for 2lev predictor, you cannot do it because the default size (1lsize) is 1 and l1size should be integer.

Please reduce l2size instead of l1size for only this case.

It's going to be 512 (default l2size is 1024).

Basically you need to run 5 simulations for one predictor.

1) 1X table, 1X BTB - baseline

2) 2X table, 1X BTB

3) 0.5X table, 1X BTB

4) 1X table, 2X BTB

5) 1X table, 0.5X BTB

You don't have to do simulation for table and BTB combination cases.

· 2/19 – Homework1 Please use linux.cs.tamu.edu instead of sun.cs.tamu.edu.

· 2/16 – Homework #1 is ready. Please take a look before Monday class. We will have a Question/Answer session on this homework.

· 2/3 – Reading assignment : Chapter 2

· 1/18 – class starts at 2:50 on Wednesday (1/23) and Friday (1/25)

· 1/14 - Bring the hardcopy of your profile including name, the photocopy of your picture, email address and research interests (advisor’s name) by 1/18

· 1/14 - First reading assignment: Chapter 1, Appendix A for next class

Handout

Slides_1, Slides 2 ( Chap 1 : Review, updated) placement test

- useful links for RISC and CISC (ISA, CISC)

Slides_3 (Appendix A : Pipelining)

Slides_4 (Chap. 2 : ILP) Simplescalar Overview

Slides_5 (Chap. 2 : more ILP)

Slides_6, Slides 7 (Chap. 5 : Memory Hierarchy Design)

Slides_8 (Chap. 6 : I/O)

Slides_9 (Chap. 4.: CMP)

Homework

Term Project

Presentation Schedule

Cover sheet for term paper

Instructor

Eun Jung Kim

Dept. of Computer Science

HRBB 427C

Tel: 845-3360

Email: ejkim at cs.tamu.edu

Course Web Page: http://faculty.cs.tamu.edu/ejkim/Courses/cpsc614

Newsgroup: tamu.classes.cpsc614

Office Hours: MW 4:00-4:30

Teaching Assistant

Yuho Jin

Dept. of Computer Science

HRBB 427D

Email:yuho at cs.tamu.edu

Office Hours: Monday & Tuesday 2:00-3:00

Baik Song Ahn

Dept. of Computer Science

HRBB 336

Email:baiksong at cs.tamu.edu

Office Hours: Wednesday 2:00-2:50, Thursday 2:00-3:00