High Performance Computer Architecture, Spring 2003

Lectures are at 9:30 Monday, Wednesday and Friday in Room 2229 SC.

• Wed Jan 22 Introduction
• Fri Jan 24 Digital Logic
• Mon Jan 27 Finite State Automata
• Wed Jan 29 Register Transfer Components
• Fri Jan 31 Programs Transform to Microcode
• Mon Feb 3 (note: flipflop lecture inserted Jan 27)
• Wed Feb 5 Bus level design
• Fri Feb 7 (note: Euclid's GCD algorithm inserted Feb 5)
• Mon Feb 10 Berks Goldstine and von Newmann - sparking a revolution [last add]
• Wed Feb 12 The Ultimate RISC [possible date of Eid ul Adha]
• Fri Feb 14 The B 5000 stack architecture
• Mon Feb 17 The Minimal CISC (a very small stack architecture)
• Wed Feb 19 Microprogramming
• Fri Feb 21 The IBM 360
• Mon Feb 24 The DEC PDP-8 and PDP-11
• Wed Feb 26 The DEC PDP-11 and VAX
• Fri Feb 28 Information theory and efficient instruction coding
• Mon Mar 3 The Xerox Alto, a clean stack architecture
• Wed Mar 5 Fast multiplication hardware [possible date of Hijra]
• Fri Mar 7 Fast division without hardware help [deadline to apply for May graduation]
• Mon Mar 10 (continued from previous lecture)
• Wed Mar 12 Review
• Fri Mar 14 Midterm Exam
• Mon Mar 17 -- Fri Mar 21 -- [Spring Break]
• Mon Mar 24 Coprocessors
• Wed Mar 26 Functional Units
• Fri Mar 28 Simple Pipelines
• Mon Mar 31 VLIW architectures
• Wed Apr 2 Pipeline diagrams
• Fri Apr 4 Pipelined CPU design
• Mon Apr 7 Pipeline interlock conditions [last undergrad drop]
• Wed Apr 9 Bubbles in the pipeline
• Fri Apr 11 Operand Forwarding and Out of Order Execution
• Mon Apr 14 Variable Length Instructions
• Wed Apr 16 Superscalar Machines
• Fri Apr 18 -- No class [Passover day 2, Good Friday]
• Mon Apr 21 Conditionals in pipelined machines
• Wed Apr 23 Calls
• Fri Apr 25 Interrupts and Traps
• Mon Apr 28 Memory Arbitration Logic and Crossbar Switches
• Wed Apr 30 Cache Memory
• Fri May 2 Snooping Cache and Multiprocessors
• Mon May 5 Branch Prediction Logic (yet another use of cache memory)
• Wed May 7 Memory Interface Issues
• Fri May 9 Review
• Final Exam Thursday May 15, 9:45 AM