| Instructor: | Dr. Lotzi Bölöni |
| Office: | ENGR - 444 |
| Phone: | 407-823-2320 |
| E-mail: | lboloni@cs.ucf.edu |
| Web Site: |
http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~lboloni/Teaching/EEL5708_2005/index.html
The assignments and the other announcements will be posted on the course web site |
| Classroom: | Engr I. 388 |
| Class Hours: | Monday, Wednesday and Friday 8:30 - 9:20 |
| Office Hours: | Monday 9:30-12:30, Tuesday 3:00-6:00 or by appointment |
| TA: | Rashad Oreifej roreifej@hotmail.com |
| Pre-requisites: | An undergraduate level course in computer organization. Assembly programming. Basic knowledge of
digital logic and microprocessors. If you are not confident that you have the pre-requisites, a good catch-up book is: David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy: Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, Third Edition |
| Text: | Patterson, Hennessy: Computer Architecture, A Quantitative
Approach third edition |
| Streaming video: | TBD |
| Grading: | Homework: 20 % Midterm Exam: 30 % Final Exam: 50 % Standard 90/80/70/60 scale will be used for final grades (curved if necessary) |
| Date |
Topic |
Lecture Notes, Readings, Homeworks |
| Aug. 22 |
Introduction -Quiz |
Introductory Quiz [slides] Introduction |
| Aug. 24 |
-Two case studies |
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| Aug. 26 |
The big picture |
[slides] The Big Picture, [reading] Amdahl et. al. on the IBM 360 |
| Aug. 29 |
Review -Instruction sets |
[slides] Review: Instruction sets, [reading] Richard Russel: The Cray-1 Computer System, Homework 1 |
| Aug. 31 |
-Instruction sets |
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| Sep. 2 |
-Assembly language programming |
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| Sep. 5 |
Labor day |
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| Sep. 7 |
Basic pipelining |
[slides] Review: Pipelining |
| Sept 9. |
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| Sept 12. |
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| Sep. 14 |
Hazards |
Homework 1 due |
| Sep. 16 |
Branch alternatives | |
| Sep. 19 |
Instruction level paralelism -loop unrolling |
[slides] Instruction level parallelism |
| Sep. 21 |
-Dynamic branch prediction with Tomasulo's algorithm |
[slides] Tomasulo's algorithm |
| Sep. 23 |
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| Sep. 26 |
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| Sep. 28 |
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| Sep. 30 | -Speculation |
[slides] Speculation [reading] J.E.Smith and A.R. Pleszkun: Implementing precise interrupts in pipelined processors |
| Oct. 3 | ||
| Oct 5. |
-Superscalar processors | Homework 2 |
| Oct. 7 | ||
| Oct. 10 |
Midterm review session | |
| Oct. 12 |
Midterm | |
| Oct. 14 |
-Memory technology | [slides] Memory technology |
| Oct. 17 |
-Caches | [slides] Caches |
| Oct. 19 |
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| Oct. 21 |
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| Oct. 24 |
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| Oct. 26 |
Homework 2 due |
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| Oct. 28 |
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| Oct. 31 |
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| Nov. 2 |
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| Nov. 4 |
Main memory organization |
[slides] Main memory |
| Nov. 7 |
Multiprocessor systems -SMP |
[slides] Multiprocessors |
| Nov. 9 |
Homework 3 |
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| Nov. 11 |
Veteran's day |
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| Nov. 14 |
-NUMA |
[slides] NUMA |
| Nov. 16 |
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| Nov. 18 |
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| Nov. 21 |
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| Nov. 23 |
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| Nov. 25 |
Day after Thanksgiving |
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| Nov. 28 |
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| Nov. 30 |
Networking and cluster computers. Case study: Google. |
[slides] Clusters. Google. Homework 3 due |
| Dec. 2 |
Final exam review |
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| TBD |
Final Exam |
The grades are posted using the last 5 digits of your "employee id/student id" number.