CS441 - Architecture - 2011

Announcements

• Course overall grades are available on NetRun.
• The final exam was *8am* Thursday, December 15. By midnight that day, turn in your Project 2 final code on Blackboard.
• Project 2 presentations were Thursday, December 7, in class.
• Project 2 rough drafts were due Thursday, December 1 on Blackboard.
• HW3 was due by Thursday, November 10.
• Project 1 final draft is due Thursday, October 20, on Blackboard. I've posted midterm grades and comments on your rough drafts on NetRun.
• HW2 is posted on NetRun, and due anytime Tuesday, October 25. However, you might want to at least look the problems over prior to the midterm on Thursday, October 20. (Hint, hint!)
• Project 1 rough drafts are due by Thursday, October 6 on Blackboard.
• HW1: Build a simple 8 bit CPU execution unit inside a digital circuit simulator, like Logisim (see below).
  
• You must have at least 3 registers.
• You must have at least 3 operations, including addition (see "Arithmetic" -> "Adder")
  
• You must collect the control inputs into a single region of the circuit.
• Send me the .circ file, and a .jpg screenshot of the CPU adding 3 and 5 from two of the registers and storing the result in a third register.  Turn these in on Blackboard by Tuesday, September 20.
  
• The classroom is hereby changed to Chapman 201A (the CS conference room), since English 211 won the fight at the scheduling office.
• HW0 was posted on NetRun, and due midnight Thursday, September 8. Let me know if the "CS 441" section doesn't show up on your NetRun: you're registered under your new ("olawlor") email, not your old ("fsosl") email.

Links

• Lecture Notes:
  • 12_06_review, Course Review for Final Exam modified 2011-12-05
  • 11_29_EPGPU, Dr. Lawlor's GPU Programming Langauge EPGPU modified 2011-11-29
  • 11_17_CUDA, CUDA: NVIDIA's C++-like GPU Programming modified 2011-11-16
  • 11_10_MPI, Message Passing Interface--MPI modified 2011-11-10
  • 11_01_sockets, Network Sockets modified 2011-11-01
  • 10_25_memory, RAM and Cache Layout modified 2011-10-25
  • 10_18_simd_swar, SIMD Within a Register: SWAR modified 2011-10-18
  • 10_11_OpenMP, OpenMP: Compiler-supported Multithreaded Programming modified 2011-10-10
  • 10_06_multicore, Multithreaded & Multicore modified 2011-10-05
  • 10_04_SSE_movemask, SIMD True Branching with "movemask" modified 2011-10-18
  • 09_29_SSE, SSE and AVX: SIMD instructions on Intel Hardware modified 2011-09-28
  • 09_27_branch_and_SIMD, Branch instructions & SIMD Intro modified 2011-09-27
  • 09_22_renaming, Out of Order Execution and Register Renaming modified 2011-09-22
  • 09_20_superscalar, Super-Scalar Execution: Multiple Instructions/Clock modified 2011-09-20
  • 09_20_pipelining, Pipelining, Pipeline Stalls, and Operand Forwarding modified 2011-09-19
  • 09_15_bus, Buses vs. Muxes, and Tri-State Logic modified 2011-09-19
  • 09_13_physics, Physics of Electrical Components modified 2011-09-13
  • 09_05_semiconductors, Building Logic Gates from Silicon modified 2011-09-05
  • 09_01_history, A Brief History of Computing, starting in 150 BC modified 2011-09-01
• Course syllabus includes dates to remember, the grading policy, and a course outline.
• NetRun lets you run code right from your web browser. Anybody with a UAF email address can get a password online. See NetRun Help.
  

Documentation

• If you haven't written x86 assembly, read my x86 assembly cheat sheet or the NASM Docs, in particular the x86 Instruction List. The old CS 301 site is useful too, especially the lecture notes.
• I now recommend the digital circuit simulator Logisim, which is modern and Java. It doesn't simulate timing glitches with the same fidelity as TkGate, but this is actually an advantage if you're not an EE!
  • Download Logisim plus my example circuits here as a Zip or Tar-gzip.

O. Lawlor, lawlor@alaska.edu
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