Computer Science 471:
Computer Architecture and Organization

Fall 1996 course homepage

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Syllabus

• Course description
• Administrative matters
• Requirements
  • Class participation
  • Problem sets
  • Examinations
• Reading
• Schedule

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• Reading assignments and discussion topics, by class number: 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |

• Problem sets: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |

• Enrichment links:
  • EDSAC simulator
  • Maurice Wilkes biography
  • Simple program compiled for MIPS, using load byte and store byte instructions
  • Same program compiled for (original) Alpha
  • The Pentium Papers: a collection of documents concerning the Pentium divide bug
  • Karnaugh published his method in 1953; here is a brief tutorial on Karnaugh maps.
  • A reasonable survey of RISC ideas and implementations
  • A penetrating case study and analysis of RISC vs. CISC
  • The Paging Game
  • The MIPS R10000 handout.
  • The MIPS R3000 has roughly the design developed in the text.
  • The MIPS R4000 is a ``superpipelined'' implementation.
  • The MIPS R8000 is a ``superscalar'' but in-order implementation.