CS 572 Micro Architecture

Fall 2011

TTH 17:30-18:45, EBA 254

San Diego State University

GMCS 544, 619-594-2014

Office hours: TTH 4 pm - 5 pm.

Date	Topics	Reading Assignments	Slides
8/30/11	Introduction	Ch 1.1-1.6	Lec01.pdf
9/01/11	Performance Measurement	Ch 1.8-1.9	Lec02.pdf
9/06/11	Instruction Set Architecture	B.1-B.3, B.4, B.5	Lec03.pdf
9/08/11	Instruction Set Architecture: MIPS1	B.6, B.7, B.9	Lec04.pdf
9/13/11	Instruction Set Architecture: MIPS2		Lec05.pdf
9/15/11	Single-Cycle Processor Implementation1		Lec06.pdf
9/20/11	Single-Cycle Processor Implementation2		Lec07.pdf
9/22/11	Multi-Cycle Processor Implementation 1		Lec08.pdf
9/27/11	Multi-Cycle Processor Implementation 2		Lec09.pdf
10/04/11	Pipeline: Introduction	A.1	Lec10.pdf
10/06/11	Pipeline: Structural Hazards	A.2	Lec11.pdf
10/11/11	Pipeline: Data Hazards	A.3	Lec12.pdf
10/18/11	Pipeline: Branch Prediction	A.3	Lec13.pdf
10/20/11	Exercise Class		Lec14.pdf
10/25/11	Review session for midterm exam	The Study Guide for the Midterm exam	Lec15.pdf
10/27/11	Midterm
11/01/11	Midterm Summary Session		Lec16.pdf
11/03/11	Pipeline: Exceptions, control	A.4	Lec17.pdf
11/08/11	Instruction-level parallelism: Introduction	Ch2.1	Lec18.pdf
11/10/11	Instruction-level parallelism: Scoreboard	A.7	Lec19.pdf
11/15/11	Tomasulo’s Algorithm: Introduction and Example	Ch2.4-Ch2.5	Lec20.pdf
11/17/11	Tomasulo’s Algorithm: A loop example	Ch2.5	Lec21.pdf
11/22/11	Tomasulo’s Algorithm: Reorder Buffer	Ch2.6	Lec22.pdf
11/29/11	Memory Hierarchy: Set Associative Cache	Ch5.1-Ch5.2	Lec23.pdf
12/01/11	Memory Hierarchy: Cache Performance		Lec24.pdf
12/06/11	Storage Systems and I/O Topics		Lec25.pdf
12/08/11	Final Review		Lec26.pdf
Thursday, Dec. 15	Final Exam (15:30 - 17:30)