CMPS 5133: Advanced Computer Architecture

Fall semester 2005

 

Instructor: Dr. Nelson L. Passos
Office: Bolin Science Hall 126B
Office phone: 397-4129
E-mail: nelson.passos@mwsu.edu
Office Hours: MTWR 9:00 - 11:00 am
W         1:00 - 3:00 pm
Class Hours: MW 7:00 - BO 320



Course Description: 



Comprehensive study of topics of scalable and parallel architectures, including  performance measurement, pipelining, cache and memory technology, instruction-level parallelism, 
superscalar processors, parallel processors, and multithread systems.





Text book:





Modern processor 
Design, by J. P. Shen and M. H. Lipasti (1st 
edition).



Lecture Notes: 



  
 Revised CMPS 5133 part 1 




CMPS 5133 part 2 









Agenda: 
August     September     October     November     December     Grading







August
















    


  

    

      
      

      Aug 29-
      

      
      

      Processor design

    

    

      
      

      Aug 31-

      
      
Performance and ILP

    

  

  		 













September






  

    
    

    Sep 5- 
    

    
    
Labor Day

  

  

    
    

    Sep 7-

    
    
Pipelining

  

  

    
    

    Sep 12- 
    

    
    

    Pipelined processor design

  

  

    
    

    Sep 14-

    
    
Minimizing stalls
    

  

  

    
    

     

    
    

    Assignment # 1
    

  

  

    
    

    Sep 19- 
    

    
    

    Commercial processors 

  

  

    
    

    Sep 21-

    
    
Memory fundamentals

  

  

    
    

     

    
    

    Assignment # 2

  

  

    
    

    Sep 26- 
    

    
    

    Caching

  

  

    
    

    Sep 28-

    
    
Virtual memory

  

  

    
    

     

    
    

    Assignment # 3

  














October





  

    
    

    Oct 3- 
    

    
    

    Page Tables

  

  

    
    

    Oct 5-

    
    
Input/output systems

  

  

    
    

     

    
    

    Assignment # 4

  

  

    
    

    Oct 10- 
    

    
    

    Input/output 
    systems

  

  

    
    

    Oct 12-

    
    
Superscalar

  

  

    
    

    Oct 17- 
    

    
    

    Parallel pipelines

  

  

    
    

    Oct 19- 
    

    
    

    Test # 1

  

  

    
    

    Oct 24- 
    

    
    

    Superscalar pipelines

  

  

    
    

    Oct 26-

    
    
Branch prediction

  

  

    
    

    Oct 31- 
    

    
    
Branch prediction

  


















November






  

    
    

    Nov 2-

    
    

    Register reuse

  

  

    
    

    Nov 7- 
    

    
    

    Data dependencies

  

  

    
    

    Nov 9-

    
    
Tomasulo algorithm

  

  

    
    

     

    
    

    Assignment # 5

  

  

    
    

    Nov 14- 
    

    
    

    Reservation stations

  

  

    
    

    Nov 16-

    
    
Memory access

  

  

    
    

     

    
    

    Assignment # 6

  

  

    
    

    Nov 21- 
    

    
    

    Test # 2

  

  

    
    

    Nov 23-

    
    

    Thanksgiving 
    Holidays

  

  

    
    

    Nov 24- 
    

    
    

    Thanksgiving 
    Holidays

  

  

    
    

    Nov 28-

    
    

    Threads (chapter 11)

  

  

    
    

    Nov 30-

    
    
Multi-processors

  






















December






  

    
    

    Dec 5- 
    

    
    

    Multithread processors

  

  

    
    

    Dec 7-

    
    
Multithread processors

  

  

    
    

    Dec 12- 
    

    
    
Finals 
    (Monday, 7:30 pm)

  




















Grading












 
 
Tests:  		   20 % (each) 
    

Final Exam: 	   20 %	
   

Assignments: 	   20 %	
   

Project: 	   15 %	
   

Class Participation:
   5 %	 






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address:




nelson.passos@mwsu.edu 




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