High Performance Computer Architecture, Spring 2003

Part of 22C:122/55:132 Computer Architecture On-Line Collection
by Douglas W. Jones
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Department of Computer Science

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