CMPE202: Computer Architecture/ Winter 2001

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Requesting academic accommodations:

If you would like to request academic accommodations due to a disability, please contact the Disabled Resource Center , 146 Hahn Student Services, (831)459-2089(voice) (831)459-4806(TDD/TTY). They can authorize specific accommodations for you in CMPE202 on an Accommodation Request Form. Please present this form to me early in the quarter so that we can discuss the accommodations you might need for class. You will need to see me again at least three weeks before each exam to arrange for testing accommodations.  

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Course Information

• Time and Place: TueThur 12:00-1:45pm Social Sciences II Room 171
• Prerequisite: CMPE110 Computer Architecture
• Staff:
• Instructor: Pak K. Chan
  Location: Applied Sciences 325 Phone: (831)459-4156
  Office Hours: Tues. ??-??

• Grading: You must turn in ALL homeworks.

  • 20% 3 or 4 Homeworks, (late homeworks will not be accepted)
  • 25% mid-term examination (approximately 5.5th week, in class).
  • 25% Three journal papers critique; reports AND class presentation. Papers shall cover instruction set design, computer arithmetic, memory, and instruction sequencing.
  • 30% final examination (in class noon-3pm Saturday March 17, 2001).

  Policy concerning homeworks:
  I'll hand out the homeworks in lecture and each homework assignment must be due 7 days later. Your homework will be graded (though not necessarily corrected). You are not allowed to submit your homeworks, reports, exams etc by electronic mail or fax. Please don't be late for classes.

  Academic Integrity:

  • Thou shall not cheat !
  • Thou shall do thy work individually
  • Thou shall do thy work honestly
  • Thou shall not copy thy neighbor's work

  List of papers that you must read: List of must-read papers . I will furnish a master copy on the first day of class.

  Optional Text: Readings in Computer Architecture by Authors: Mark D. Hill, Norman P. Jouppi, Gurindar S. Sohi Prentice-Hall 1993. ISBN 1-55860-539-8 Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. List of papers in this text: List of papers . This text has some (but not all) of the papers that you must read.

  References (all on reserve @ Science library):
  

  1. ``Computer Architecture, Concepts and Evolution'' Gerrit A. Blaauw and Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. Addison Wesley.
  2. ``The Design and Analysis of Instruction Set Processors,'' Barbacci/Siewiorek.
  3. ``Advanced in Computer Architecture,'' Glenford Myers, Jr.
  4. ``Computer Architecture, A Quatitative Approach'' Patterson and Hennessy
  5. ``The Architecture of Pipelined Computer,'' Peter M. Kogge.
  6. ``Computer Number Systems and Arithmetic,'' Norman Scott, Prentice-Hall, c1985.
  7. ``Introduction to Arithmetic for Digital Systems Designers,'' Waser/Flynn
  8. ``Computer Architecture,'' Vol. I and II, Subrata Dasgupta.
  9. ``The Structure of: Computers and Computations,'' David Kuck.
  10. ``MIPS R2000 RISC Architecture,'' Gerry Kane, Prentice-Hall.
  11. ``POWER and PowerPC, Principles, Architectre, Implementation'' Weiss and Smith. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
  12. ``Capability-based computer systems'' Henry M. Levy. Bedford, Mass. : Digital Press, c1984.

  
  

  Topics

   1. Computer Architecture, Implementation and Realization (Ref 1, chapter 1)
   2. Description of computer architectures (Ref 2 + Verilog manuals manual)
   3. Esoteric computer architectures (Ref 3 + Ref 12 + readings(Fabry74,Arvind))
   4. Computer Arithmetic (Refs 6 and 7 + paper by Goldsmith)
   5. Instruction Sets (Ref 4, papers by P.Emma,Hitchcock, Patterson)
   6. Pipelined Implementations and Sequencing (papers by Tomatsulo, Anderson et al, Keller)
   7. Precise and Imprecise Interrupt (paper by Smith)
   8. Memory hierarchy (Readings in list of papers)
  

Midterm 1997

Homework Assignments

• Homework 1 : due Jan 18 beginning of class.
• Hw3 partial solution .
• Hw1 Q1-Q3 solution .
• Verilog RISC CPU .
• Hw1 Q4 easy solution .
• Hw1 Q4 better solution .
• Hw1 Q5 solution won't be available until Hw2 is done.

Paper Critque

1. Read paper by David Goldberg, ``What Every Computer Scientist Should Know about Floating-Point Arithmetic'' 1991 ACM survey. Due Jan 25, 2001.
2. Read paper by Anderson, Earle, Goldschmidt, Powers ``The IBM System/360 Model 91: Floating-Point Execution Unit'' IBM Journal of Research and Development, January 1967.

Handouts

1. Verilog manaul: manual
2. IEEE review form: form