CS 154 Computer Architecture

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Lecture: Tue/Thu 4:00-5:15p Chem 1171
Discussion: Section 07732 -- M 11-11:50a HSSB 1173 (note room change)
Discussion: Section 07740 -- F 9-9:50a GIRV 1119
Instructor: Prof. Fred Chong office hours: Tue/Thu 3-3:50 Eng I 5113
TA: Susmit Biwas office hours: MWF 5-6p Phelps 1413
Text: Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface (3rd ed), by Hennessey and Patterson, 2005.

Grading

  •   4 Labs 50% (Labs 1,4 8% each; Lab 2 17%; Lab 3 17%)
  • 1 Midterm 20%
  • Final 30% 

    • Lectures

    Date

    		 Lec/Disc

    Topic

    Read

    Assignments
    4/2 Disc
    		 No discussion

    4/3

    		 Lec

    Intro / fabrication

    Chap 1

    4/5

    		 Lec Control and Datapath  Chap 5
    4/6,9 Disc Altera Tutorial


    4/10

    		 Lec

    Microcode: MIC-1

    Microcode handout

    		 Lab1(Microcode) out -  due 4/16
    4/12 Lec

    Microcode examples



    4/13,16
    		 Disc Microcoded Machines  

    4/17

    		 Lec

    Pipelining / Data Deps

    		 Chap 6.1-4 Lab 2 (Mic-1 unpipelined) out - due 5/7

    4/19

    		 Lec

    Hazards/Exceptions

    		 Chap 6.5-6
    4/20,23
    		 Disc Data Dependencies

    4/24

    		 Lec

    Dynamic Instruction Scheduling

    		 Chap 6.7,6.9-13
    4/26
    		 Lec
    		 Performance  Chap 4
    4/27,30
    		 Disc Hazards

    5/1

    		 Lec
    		 Intro to Caches Chap 7.1-7.2

    5/3

    		 Lec

    CachePerformance

    		Chap 7.3
    5/4,7
    		 Disc Midterm Review

    5/8

    Midterm


    		Lab 3 (pipelined machine) out - due 5/23

    5/10

    		 Lec Advanced Cache Structures

    Chap 7.3
    5/11,14
    		 Disc Midterm hand-back and recap

    5/15

    		 Lec

    Virtual Memory

    Chap 7.4-5, 7-10

    5/17

    		 Lec

    I/O

    Chap 8

     
    5/18,21
    		 Disc Cache Examples

    5/22

    		 Lec Parallel Programming

    Chap 9

     

    5/24

    		 Lec

    Multiprocessor Architectures


    		Lab 4 (cache lab) out - due 6/5
    5/25,28
    		 Disc Memorial Day Holiday -
    No Discussion

    5/29

    		 Lec

    Interconnection Networks


     

    5/31

    		 Lec Multicore Architectures


     
    6/1,4 Disc
    		 Cache Coherence

    6/5
    		 Lec Future of Comp Arch

    6/7 Lec Final Exam Review

    Old exams
    6/8
    		 Disc
    		 No Discussion

    6/14
    		 4-7 pm
    		 Final Exam
    Chem 1171

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    Last updated April 2007
    chong@cs.ucsb.edu