CPS 220: Lectures

 

Monday	Wednesday	Friday
8/30 Course Introduction, Overview, and Technology Trends; pdf	9/1 Performance Laws, and Rules of Thumb; pdf	9/3 Benchmarks, Performance, and Cost; pdf
9/6 Instruction Set Architecture; pdf	9/8 Review of Control and Datapath; pdf	9/10 Introduction to Pipelining; pdf
9/13 Pipelining Complications---Data and Control Hazards; pdf	9/15 Pipelining Complications, Case Study of MIPS R4000; pdf	9/17 Introduction to Instruction Level Parallelism; pdf
9/20 Compiler perspective on ILP and Case Study of CDC 6600 Scoreboarding; pdf	9/22 Case Study of Tomasulo's Algorithm; pdf	9/24 Dynamic Branch Prediction (slides 1-10); pdf
9/27 Superscalar, VLIW, SW Pipelining (slide 10 onward); pdf	9/29 Trace Scheduling, Conditional Execution, Speculation, Limits; pdf	10/1 Complexity Effective Processors; paper
10/4 Processor Design for Portable Systems; paper	10/6 Memory Hierarchy: 4 Questions; pdf	10/8 Memory Hierarchy: 3 C miss types, Reducing Miss Rate; pdf
10/11 Fall Break	10/13 Project status	10/15 Project status
10/18 Memory Hierarchy: 7 miss reduction techniques  (CProf paper;) pdf	10/20 Review	10/22 Midterm
10/25 Memory Hierarchy: miss penalty and hit time; pdf	10/27 Memory Technology: pdf	10/29 Main Memory; see previous slides
11/1 Main Memory & Virtual Memory; pdf1, pdf2	11/3 Virtual Memory, Page Tables & TLBs; pdf	11/5 Virtual Memory, Managing the Memory Hierarchy; (see previous slides)
11/8 You are responsible for Sections 1-3,5-6,9 of Chapter 6 I/O; pdf	11/10 I/O; pdf	11/12 I/O-RAID; pdf
11/15 Compaq Alpha 21264; pdf	11/17 Sun MAJC; pdf	11/19 Interconnection Networks; pdf
11/22 Interconnection Networks; pdf	11/24 IA-64 Tutorial; no class	11/26 Thanksgiving
11/29 MP: Flynn Classification:	12/1 MP: Snoopy & Directory Schemes & Performance:	12/3 MP: Consistency & Synchronization:
12/6 Review; slop	12/8 Project Presentations	12/10 Project Presentations