Computer architecture Period 3 (1DT016 and 1TT441)

News :

2008-03-15 - Extra exam booked for April 2nd. If you did not receive a mail then mail justin.pearson@it.uu.se
2008-03-06 - Extra lab session on the 2008-03-07! Don't forget that!
2008-02-28 - Assignment deadlines are set !!
2008-02-28 - Lab completion deadline extended !!
2008-02-18 - Assignment pages updated !!
2008-02-08 - Lab deadlines extended by a week. Rules updated.
2008-02-08 - Lab deadlines are set
2008-02-04 - Schedule updated: New extra lab session on Friday 2008-03-07
2008-01-17 - Web pages up and running!

Teaching Staff

Books:

The course will be based on the book by Andrew S. Tanenbaum. Structuered Computer Organization fourth edition.
For lab and assignments we recommend the book by John Waldrom. Introduction to RISC Assembly Language Programming.

Slides:

Lecture	Topic and Link to Slides
1	Introduction to the course
2	Introduction to the MIPS processor and simple arithmetic
3	MIPS memory organisation
4	Making Decisions and if we have time we will start on functions, stacks and register conventions
5	Continue the previous lecture on functions stakcs and register conventions
6	Processor Implementation
7	Processor Implementation Pipelines
8	I/O
9	Caches and Virtual Memory

Links

Checkout this page for more guidance on labs and assignments.
Submission and corrections will be handled by the Course Manager. Details on how to register in the system are given here.
The lab and the first assignment are compulsory for both instances of the course (1DT016 and 1TT441).
The second assignment is compulsory only for students taking the 1DT016 instance.

Tutorials

Compulsory Lab

Compulsory Assignments