Policies
Notes
Homework
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Update (Apr 16): Appendix D notes (part 3) posted.
Update (Apr 18): No slides today; whiteboard only.
Update (Apr 24): Please fill out the course survey here.
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General Description:
This is a graduate-level course on how CPUs work. We will cover
microprocessor and memory system design issues for high-performance,
multi-core, and embedded mobile systems. We will also cover
hardware-software interaction in such systems.
Textbook: "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach"
Hennessy and Patterson, Morgan Kaufmann, 2006, 4th edition.
Newsgroup: Please post questions and discussion to the Usenet group git.cc.class.cs6290. Please
refer to OIT Newsgroup FAQ to connect to the GT
newsgroup server.
AIM: You can add "gt2007cs6290" to your AIM buddy list.
I won't always be online; email and the newsgroup are the most effective means of communication outside
of the classroom.
Background
Please review appendices A, B and C in the textbook.
Course Policies
Collaboration, Cheating, Late Homework, etc.
Tentative Schedule:
This schedule will be adjusted to the GT and KU calendars.
| Date | Week/Day | Topics | Other Notes |
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| Jan 8 | 1/Mon | What is Architecture?, Trends | |
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| Jan 10 | 1/Wed | Evaluation (Performance, Power, Cost) | |
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| Jan 15 | 2/Mon | Dependences and ILP | |
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| Jan 17 | 2/Wed | Register Renaming | |
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| Jan 22 | 3/Mon | Compiler Techniques for ILP | |
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| Jan 24 | 3/Wed | Branch Prediction | |
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| Jan 29 | 4/Mon | Dynamic Scheduling (Tomasulo) | |
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| Jan 31 | 4/Wed | Dynamic Scheduling (Unified RS, Multiple Issue) | |
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| Feb 5 | 5/Mon | Interrupts and Exceptions | |
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| Feb 7 | 5/Wed | Case Study: Pentium-Pro | |
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| Feb 12 | 6/Mon | Exam 1 | up to and including compiler techniques |
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| Feb 19 | Lunar New Year - No Class |
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| Feb 21 | 7/Wed | Software Speculation, Predication | |
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| Feb 26 | 8/Mon | VLIW and EPIC | |
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| Feb 27 | 8/Tue | Compiler Support for VLIW | |
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| Feb 28 | 8/Wed | Caches | |
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| Mar 5 | 9/Mon | More Caches | |
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| Mar 7 | 9/Wed | Virtual Memory, Protection | |
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| Mar 12 | 10/Mon | Memory Technology | |
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| Mar 14 | 10/Wed | Exam 2 | up to and including Compiler support for VLIW |
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| Mar 19 | GT Spring Break - No Class |
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| Mar 21 |
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| Mar 26 | 11/Mon | Multi-Processing | |
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| Mar 28 | 11/Wed | More MP | |
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| Apr 2 | 12/Mon | SMT, SoEMT, Multi-Core | |
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| Apr 4 | 12/Wed | Memory Consistency | |
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| Apr 7 | 13/Mon | DSPs | |
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| Apr 11 | 13/Wed | Embedded Benchmarks and MP's | |
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| Apr 16 | 14/Mon | Embedded Case Studies | |
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| Apr 18 | 14/Wed | Research Topics in Computer Architecture | |
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| Apr 23 | 15/Mon | Review Session | |
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| Apr 25 | 15/Wed | Exam 3 | up to embedded MP |
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