High Performance Computer Architecture, Spring 2004

Lectures are at 10:30 Monday, Wednesday and Friday in Room 4030 SC.

• Wed Jan 21 Introduction
• Fri Jan 23 Digital Logic
• Mon Jan 26 Digital Logic (Flipflops)
• Wed Jan 28 Finite State Automata
• Fri Jan 30 Register Transfer Components
• Mon Feb 2 Transform to Microcode
• Wed Feb 4 Big example, Euclid's GCD
• Fri Feb 6 Bus level design
• Mon Feb 9 Berks Goldstine and von Newmann - sparking a revolution [last add]
• Wed Feb 11 The Ultimate RISC
• Fri Feb 13 The B 5000 stack architecture
• Mon Feb 16 The Minimal CISC (a very small stack architecture)
• Wed Feb 18 Microprogramming
• Fri Feb 20 The IBM 360
• Mon Feb 23 The DEC PDP-8 and PDP-11
• Wed Feb 25 The DEC PDP-11 and VAX
• Fri Feb 27 Information theory and efficient instruction coding
• Mon Mar 1 The Xerox Alto, a clean stack architecture
• Wed Mar 3 Fast multiplication hardware
• Fri Mar 5 Fast division without hardware help [deadline to apply for May graduation]
• Mon Mar 8 (continued from previous lecture)
• Wed Mar 10 Review
• Fri Mar 12 Midterm Exam
• Mon Mar 15 -- Fri Mar 18 -- [Spring Break]
• Mon Mar 22 Coprocessors
• Wed Mar 24 Functional Units
• Fri Mar 26 Simple Pipelines
• Mon Mar 29 Pipeline diagrams
• Wed Mar 31 Pipelined CPU design
• Fri Apr 2 Pipeline interlock conditions [last undergrad drop]
• Mon Apr 5 Bubbles in the pipeline
• Wed Apr 7 Operand Forwarding and Out of Order Execution
• Fri Apr 9 Variable Length Instructions [last grad drop is Apr 13]
• Mon Apr 12 Superscalar Machines
• Wed Apr 14
• Fri Apr 16 Conditionals in pipelined machines
• Mon Apr 19 VLIW architectures (lecture relocated, guest lecture)
• Wed Apr 21 Calls
• Fri Apr 23 Interrupts and Traps
• Mon Apr 26 Memory Arbitration Logic and Crossbar Switches
• Wed Apr 28 Cache Memory
• Fri Apr 30 Snooping Cache and Multiprocessors
• Mon May 3 Branch Prediction Logic (yet another use of cache memory)
• Wed May 5 Memory Interface Issues
• Fri May 7 Review
• Final Exam Wednesday May 12, 9:45 AM