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CSE 141 - Computer Archtecture

News:

Announcements made during the final.

Final Exam will be on Tuesday (March 19), 11:30 - 2:30. We will be split between two locations - please go to your assigned room:

If your last name starts with A - M, the Final will be in Center 113, our classroom.
If your last name starts with N - Z, the Final will be in CSB 001, where section meetings are held.

The incredible Greg has made an answer key to Quiz 3.

Assignments

Turn-in, graded assignments (incidentally, there will only be three):

Estimating storage densitites. Due Friday, Jan 25, at class.
Google's computers. Due Monday, Feb 11, at class. Here are the solutions.
Explaining performance differences. Due Friday, March 15, at class.

Ungraded homework:

Problem set 1. Suggested "due date": Jan 16. Here is an answer sheet.
Problem set 2. Suggested "due date": Jan 23. Here is an answer sheet.
Problem set 3. Suggested "due date": Feb 8. Here is the corrected answer sheet.
Here (in Powerpoint or pdf format) are some exercises on pipelining.
Problem set 4. Suggested "due date": March 1. Here is an answer sheet.
Problem set 5. Suggested "due date": March 8. Here is an answer sheet. .

Reading:

Week 1: Read Chapter 1. Skim Chapter 3 (see class notes about what to focus on.)
Week 2: Read Chapter 2.
Week 3: Glance through Chapter 4, mainly reading the Big Picture and Hardware-Software Interface paragraphs and Fallacies & Pitfalls. (The "Elaboration" paragraphs are often interesting too.) I mainly want you to know about two's complement representation of integers and IEEE 754 floating point representation.
Week 5: Read Chapter 5.
Week 6: Read Chapter 6.
Week 8: Read Chapter 7.
Week 9: Read Chapter 8.

Lecture Notes:

Topic	Dates	Notes format
Introduction	Jan 7-9	PowerPoint or PDF
ISA's, Part 1	Jan 9-11	PowerPoint or PDF
ISA's, Part 2	Jan 11-14	PowerPoint or PDF
Exponential Growth	Jan 16-18	PowerPoint or PDF
Performance, Part 1	Jan 18-23	PowerPoint or PDF
Performance, Part 2	Jan 23-25	PowerPoint or PDF
Number Representations	Jan 28-Feb 1	PowerPoint or PDF
Building Blocks	Feb 4	PowerPoint or PDF
The one-cycle design	Feb 6	PowerPoint or PDF
From one to many cycles	Feb 8	PowerPoint or PDF
Control in the multicycle CPU	Feb 11-13	PowerPoint or PDF
Pipelined design	Feb 13	PowerPoint or PDF
Pipeline data hazzards	Feb 15	PowerPoint or PDF
Pipeline branch hazzards	Feb 22	PowerPoint or PDF
Caches (part 1)	Feb 25-27	PowerPoint or PDF
Caches (part 2)	Feb 27-March 1	PowerPoint or PDF
Virtual Memory	March 4	PowerPoint or PDF
Modern Processors	March 6	PowerPoint or PDF
Busses	March 8-11	PowerPoint or PDF
Input/Output	March 11	PowerPoint or PDF
Conclusions	March 15	PowerPoint or PDF

Textbook

Patterson and Hennessy, "Computer Organization & Design: The Hardware/Sorfware Interface". Second Edition. Available at the UCSD bookstore, and possibly at Barnes&Noble. Here's a list of errors in the text.

Staff

Instructor: Larry Carter (carter@cs.ucsd.edu).
Office hours - AP&M 4101:
- Mondays and Fridays 10:00- 11:00
- Wednesdays 3-4
- Or by appointment
TA's:
- Greg Chun (gchun@cs.ucsd.edu). Mondays 2:30-3:30 and Wednesdays 11-12. Room 3337-D AP&M.
- Rakesh Kumar (rakumar@cs.ucsd.edu). Tuesdays 10-12. Room 2331 AP&M.
- Vineet Kumar (vineet@cs.ucsd.edu). Thursday 4-6. Room 3337-D AP&M.

Class times

Monday, Wednesday, Friday 1:25 - 2:15, Center 113.
Optional discussion section, Friday 2:30 - 3:20, CSB 001 and/or Wednesdays, 6:50-7:40, CSB 001.

Related material

PC Guide - a comprehensive (but slow) website all about Personal Computer hardware, etc.

A long amusing (or perhaps depressing) story about programming the LGP-30 in the good old days.