Computer architecture Period 3 (1DT016 and 1TT441)

News :

  • 2009-02-17 - Lab deadlines extended by one week. Rules updated.
  • 2009-02-17 - Course Manager should now be working. If you are having problems submitting lab 1 please email David Eklov.
  • 2009-02-10 - Laboratory and Assignments Guidelines page updated.
  • 2009-02-10 - Lab deadlines are set
  • 2009-01-27 - Web pages up and running!

Teaching Staff

Scheme

Course material

Books:
  • The course text book is: Computer Organization and Design, Fourth Edition, Fourth Edition: The Hardware/Software Interface (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

| if you have the old book "Andrew S. Tanenbaum. Structuered Computer Organization" then 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

xspim and easier to compile on various systems. I have not had a chance to evaluate it but next year I think that I will use it over xspim.

Lab and assignments

  • 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