Computer architecture Period 4 (1DT033)
News :
- 2010-05-20
- Complete Reading list online plus old exams via here
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- Complete Reading list online plus old exams via here
- 2010-05-18
- Course Manager is setup for Assignment 1 and Assignment 2.
- If you for any reason can not login to CM, then use the following links to email Assignment 1
and Assignment 2. Clearly state your name and the name of any collaborators in the body of the email.
- 2010-05-14
- It seems like people are having trouble submitting the lab in Course Manager. If you can not login to CM, email me the solution. Make sure to write the name of any collaborators in the email.
- It seems like people are having trouble submitting the lab in Course Manager. If you can not login to CM, email me
- 2010-05-10
- Course Manager is setup for the lab.
- 2010-05-05
- Schedule changed: The lecture on Friday the 7th of May is replaced with a lab in room Pol_1412 between 13.15-17.15.
- 2010-05-05
- Deadlines changed. NEW DEADLINES: Lab: 2010-05-16, 1st Assignment: 2010-05-23, 2nd Assignment: 2010-05-30.
- 2010-04-09
- Deadlines announced. Lab Deadline 2010-05-10, 1st Assignment Deadline 2010-05-17, 2nd Assignment Deadline 2010-05-31. !
- 2010-03-22
- Some updates to the course material.!
- 2010-03-21
- Web pages online!
Teaching Staff
- Teacher: Justin Pearson
- Lab assistant: David Eklov
Schedule
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:
- As yet the course is in a bit of flux and the when we use slides will be in a bit of flux. I'll try to keep this updated.
- Please note the dates given here might not be correct. As ever timeedit has the correct dates.
| Lecture | Date | Topic and Link to Slides |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19/3 | Introduction to the course
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| 2 | 24/3 | Introduction to the MIPS processor and simple arithmetic |
| 3 | 26/3 | MIPS memory organisation |
| 4 | 12/4 | Making Decisions |
| 5 | 13/4 | Continue the previous lecture on functions stakcs and register conventions |
| 6 | 26/4 | Odds and ends on Assembly lanugage slides |
| 7 | 27/4 | Processor Implementation |
| 8 | 5/5 | These slides are useful , but we will go through the start of these slides
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| 9 | 10/5 | Processor Implementation Pipelines These are the old slides, we will continue on the slides from the previous lecture. |
| 10 | 11/5 | Caches and Virtual Memory |
| 11 | 17/5 |
I/O |
| 12 | 19/5 | Floating point and number representation. |
Reading List
Reading list for the textbook Computer Organization and Design, 4th Edition, Patterson and Hennessy
- Chapter 1, you won't be examined on anything directly in this chapter but it is good background.
- Chapter 2, All of the chapter.
- Chapter 4, 4.1-4.9
- Chapter 5, 5.1-5.5
- Chapter 6 6.1-6.6
- Appendix B. B.7
Links
- Slides and old exams
- Interesting stuff
- Mars MIPS simulator this looks a lot better than
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.
Tutorials
- Tutorial 1 Introduction to SPIM, the MIPS Simulator
- Tutorial 2 More on SPIM/MIPS
Compulsory Lab
Compulsory Assignments
- Assignment 1 MIPS assembly
- Assignment 2 MIPS assembly, memory mapped I/O