CS441 - Architecture - 2007

Meeting time: TR 9:45-11:15
Room 106 Chapman Building
University of Alaska Fairbanks

UAF CS F441-F01
3.0 Credits, Fall 2007
Prerequisites: CS 321 (OS), EE 341

Instructor: Dr. O. Lawlor
ffosl@uaf.edu, 474-7678
Office: 210C Chapman
Hours: 11:15-noon TR, by appointment, or just drop by!

Announcements

Final Exam, Project 2, and overall course grades are posted on NetRun. I have chosen not to use +/- grades. Thanks, guys--this has been a fun semester!
Final exam thoughts:
- Multi-core's major costs include software, fabrication cost ($$$), bus bandwidth/cache contention, heat, software, design time, reliability, communication latency, software, software, and of course software.
- For the MIPS-assembly dependency question:
```
A.) li $2, 123
B.) li $3, 223
C.) add $4, $2, $3
D.) li $2, 456
E.) li $3, 556
```
  There are six dependencies here:
```
C RAR A.  C RAR B.
D WAR C.  E WAR C.  (these can be renamed away)
D WAW A.  E WAW A.  (these can also be renamed away)
```
  (My "HINT" for this problem didn't help, because nobody else seemed to merge labels like I did.)
The Project 2 code and README file were turned in on Blackboard by midnight Tuesday, December 18 (same day as the final exam).
The HW6 "answer key" (my parallel implementation) is on the powerwall in ~olawlor/441_demo/hw6_key/.

Links

Here's the VHDL-written DLX CPU Simulator we looked at in class (or browse the directory). It was written back in 1993 by Peter J. Ashenden. DLX is a subset of MIPS.
NetRun lets you run code right from your web browser. Anybody with a UAF email address can get a password online. See NetRun Help. Send me bug reports!
Lecture Notes:
- 12_13_final, Course Review for Final Exam modified 2007-12-12
- 12_11_openMP, OpenMP: Threaded Programming for Mortals modified 2009-02-17
- 11_28_parallel_speed, Parallel Performance Theory modified 2007-11-29
- 11_26_powerwall_parallel, Powerwall Accounts & Parallelism modified 2007-11-26
- 11_15_MPI_and_science, MPI and Scientific Simulation modified 2007-11-15
- 11_13_floating_asm, Floating-Point Assembly modified 2007-11-13
- 11_08_tbb, Intel Threading Building Blocks modified 2007-11-08
- 11_06_threading, Multithreading modified 2007-11-06
- 11_01_sse, SSE modified 2007-11-01
- 10_30_floatingpoint, Floating-Point modified 2007-10-30
- 10_25_parallel, Parallel Programming Survey modified 2007-10-24
- 10_23_midterm, Course Review For the Midterm modified 2007-10-17
- 10_11_pcb, Etching Printed Circuit Boards the Gootee Way modified 2007-10-12
- 10_04_cache, Cache modified 2007-10-04
- 10_02_superscalar, Superscalar, Out-of-Order, and Hazards modified 2007-10-01
- 09_25_MIPS, MIPS: Machine without Interlocking Pipeline Stages modified 2007-09-25
- 09_20_CPUs, Whole-CPU Simulation and Pipelining modified 2007-09-20
- 09_18_assembly, Assembly Code! modified 2009-02-17
- 09_12_vhdl, SPICE, VHDL, and Software for Hardware Design modified 2007-10-17
- 09_10_analog_digital, Digital vs. Analog Circuits: Not a Binary Choice! modified 2007-09-10
Course syllabus includes dates to remember, the grading policy, and a course outline.

Project 1 Presentation Schedule

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

ARM Cpu Architecture
Dustin Rice

Biological Computing with Genetic Regulatory Networks
Walker Wheeler

Biological Computing with Neurons
Jay Schamel

Distributed Computing
Ryan Turnquist

Thursday, October 11

Perpendicular Bit Recording
Paul deVries

Semiconductor Fabrication
Tim Kvitek

Out-of-Order Execution
Aren Ray

Tuesday, October 16

Multi-core CPUs
Julien Barrellon

Motorola 68HC11 Architecture
Jonathan Sawyer

GPGPU
Jeremy Favier

Thursday, October 18

Hardware Support for Virtualization
Ben Hartman

Introduction to Quantum Computing (or in PDF)
Chris Granade

Review for midterm
Dr. Lawlor

Documentation

If you haven't written x86 assembly, read my NASM x86 cheat sheet or the NASM Docs, in particular the x86 Instruction List. The CS 301 site is useful too, especially the 301 lecture notes.

O. Lawlor, ffosl@uaf.edu
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