Syllabus

FALL 2018

LECTURE	DATE	TOPICS	PREPARATION	ASSIGNED	DUE
1	AUG 28	Course Introduction Classification of Computers and Instructions Addressing Modes	Course Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2	Homework 1
2	AUG 30	RISC vs. CISC The Really Simple RISC Computer (RSRC) SRC/RSRC Assembly Language	Chapter 2 The Case for the RISC David Patterson David Ditzel The Really Simple RISC Computer The SRC/RSRC Instruction Set
3	SEPT 4	RSRC VHDL/FPGA Implementation	VHDL Tutorial RSRC Vivado Tutorial Xilinx Vivado Clock Constraints Tutorial	Homework 2	Homework 1
4	SEPT 6	Introduction to Memory Address Decoding Xilinx IP Cores →Xilinx FPGA Block RAM →Xilinx Digital Clock Manager (DCM)	Chapter 7 AM27C256 EPROM Datasheet EPROM Example CY7C199N SRAM Datasheet SRAM Example
5	SEPT 11	Microprogramming the RSRC	Chapter 5 Microprogrammed RSRC Control Unit Microprogrammed RSRC CONTROL.VHD Microprogrammed RSRC CONTROLSTORE.VHD Microcoded RSRC VHDL Zip File Intel Software Developer's Manual (see pages 285, 339) Microprogrammed RSRC Control Unit Modified	Lab 1	Homework 2
6	SEPT 13	1-Bus vs 2-Bus vs 3-Bus Microarchitecture Introduction to Pipelining	Chapter 4 2-Bus SRC Block Diagrams 3-Bus SRC Block Diagrams Chapter 5 Basic Pipelined SRC/RSRC
7	SEPT 18	Pipelining the SRC/RSRC	Chapter 5 Table 5.1 Basic Pipelined SRC/RSRC Corrected Figure 5.15	Homework 3
8	SEPT 20	Pipelined SRC/RSRC VHDL/FPGA Implementation Interrupts/Exceptions	Chapter 5 Pipelined SRC/RSRC Execution Simulation Chapter 4
9	SEPT 25	Review			Homework 3 Lab 1
10	SEPT 27	Exam 1
11	OCT 2	Memory DIMMs and Modules Introduction to Schematic Capture	Chapter 7 ExpressSCH Quick Start Guide	Homework 4 Lab 2
12	OCT 4	FPM DRAM SRC/RSRC FPM DRAM Design Examples	FPM DRAM Datasheet SRC/RSRC FPM DRAM Design Examples
13	OCT 9	SDRAM DDR DRAM DDR2 DRAM DDR3 DRAM	DRAM Types MT48LC8M8A2 SDRAM Datasheet MT46V128M8 DDR DRAM Datasheet MT47H256M8 DDR2 DRAM Datasheet MT41J512M8 DDR3 DRAM Datasheet MT40A1G8 DDR4 DRAM DDR2 Core for Digilent NEXYS4DDR Board Xilinx DDR3 Core for 7 Series FPGAs		Homework 4
14	OCT 11	Cache Virtual Memory	Chapter 7 SRC/RSRC Cache Example SRC/RSRC Cache Datapath Example Intel Core i7 (Haswell) Cache Parameters Virtual Memory Concepts Virtual Memory H&P	Homework 5	Lab 2
	OCT 16	Fall Break
15	OCT 18	Memory-Mapped I/O Shared I/O Polling Interrupt-Driven I/O Direct Memory Access (DMA) The Multi-Master SRC Bus Bus Arbitration	Chapter 8 SRC Stereo Card Bus Alternatives SRC IN and OUT RTN Three-Slot Multi-Master SRC Motherboard	Lab 3	Homework 5
16	OCT 23	The PCI Bus	PCI Lecture Notes X86 Chipset Evolution
17	OCT 25	Serial vs. Parallel I/O Buses PCIe	LTSPICE Tutorial Reflection Lecture PCIe Lecture	Homework 6
18	OCT 30	Parity Hamming Codes ECC Memory	Chapter 8 Coding Theory 101 Hamming Codes PCIe CRC
19	NOV 1	Disks Video DACs ADCs	Chapter 9 SRC Video Example R2R DAC Example Flash ADC Example		Homework 6
20	NOV 6	USB 2.0/3.0 IEEE 1394 (Firewire)	Chapter 10 USB 2.0 Specification		Lab 2
21	NOV 8	Exam 2
22	NOV 13	Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) Computing Superscalar/Out-of-Order Processing	CPU History Fisher Paper 1 Fisher Paper 2 VLIW Notes AMD K7 Presentation
23	NOV 15	Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) 64-Bit Desktop Computing: AMD vs. Intel	Intel Intanium AMD Hammer
24	NOV 20	Transmeta Crusoe	David Ditzel Transmeta Crusoe White Paper HP Transmeta Crusoe Laptop
	NOV 22	Thanksgiving Break
25	NOV 27	Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) Introduction to Multicore/Cache Coherency →Global Directory →MESI (Snoopy/Pentium II) →MOESI (ccNUMA/AMD Hammer) →MESIF (ccNUMA/Intel Xeon Phi)	Intel Core i9 SPARC T5 Censier Paper Illinois Protocol Paper (1984) Intel Pentium II MESI Chipset AMD Hammer Intel Xeon Phi
26	NOV 29	Deep Dive: The Illinois Protocol (MESI)	Illinois Protocol Paper (1984) Intel Pentium II MESI Chipset
27	DEC 4	Supercomputing	Top 500 FLOPS Longbottom's Linpack Page WUSTL CHPC CHPC Photo WUSTL SEAS Linux Lab Cluster
28	DEC 6	Exam 3