Computer Science / Electrical Engineering 375:
Computer Architecture and Organization

Fall 2009

Current

• Reading and writing assignments, discussion topics
  • for Monday Nov. 16
  • no class Wednesday
• Extra class during Reading Period: Wed. Jan 6. Exam prep and/or project clinic.
• Next project milestone due-date is changed to Friday Dec. 11
• Enrichment links:
  • And who invented caching? Who else? Here's the paper, from 1965.

Syllabus

• Course description
• Administrative matters
• Requirements
  • Class participation
  • Mini problem sets
  • Examinations
  • Design project
• Reading
• Schedule

Past

• Announcements, etc.
  • Abhishek's office hours: Mondays and Thursdays, 3-4 PM
  • Project links have been moved into the Syllabus
  • Abhishek has slightly updated the project description to clarify where test cases may be found.
• Reading/writing assignments and discussion topics, by class number: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
• Enrichment links:
  • Might as well check out EDSAC on Wikipedia
  • Here's Maurice Wilkes' homepage
  • How to design an instruction set architecture, from 1947: Burks, Goldstine, and von Neumann's "Preliminary Discussion of the Logical Design of an Electronic Computing Instrument"
  • Floating point is for wimps, at least if you believe von Neumann: see section 5.3 of his paper.
  • To improve your understanding of the two views of time in pipeline waterfall charts ("program time" and "pipeline time"), try this. It's really cold.