Handouts

• Course Syllabus 
• Project Suggestions 
• Interesting Links 
• Here's a link to an article about the Intel funded report from the Aberdeen group: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t275-s2107456,00.html.
  There's also a couple related stories at http://www.theinquirer.net/26030210.htm. (thanks, Elias)
• IBM's healthy computing site
• TIFAQ
• Motorola PowerPC G4
• Intel Itanium
  • McKinley Architecture
  • McKinley Chip Design
  • IA64 System Software Architecture
  • IA64 -- why?
• Sun Ultrasparc III
• SGI R14K (send me a good link if you can find one)
  • R10000 architecture (4-up)
  • R10000 architecture (1-up)
• Transmeta TM5400
• Asynchronous Chips
• The Earth Simulator: World's Fastest Computer
• A great introduction to modern Processor architectures (USparc, MIPS, et al)
• Information on Kestrel
• Figures from lectures 
• 4/9 BEQZAL diagram (jpg)
• 4/9 Pipeline registers (jpg)
• 4/16 MAC Forwarding Diagram (jpg)
• 4/16 MAC Pipeline Diagram (jpg)
• 4/18 HW2 Pipeline -- IF1 IF2... (jpg)
• 4/18 HW2 Pipeline -- Architecture --> -- diagram (jpg)
• 4/18 HW2 Pipeline -- Branch calculation (jpg)
• Figure 3.1 (ps)
• Figure 3.4 (ps)
• Figure 3.22 (ps)
• Ian Robertson's K7 graph
• Ian Robertson's Sparc graph
• Lecture Notes 
• Chapter 1, 4-up
• Chapter 2, 4-up
• Chapter 3, 4-up
• Chapter 4, 4-up
• Last year's midterm
• Chapter 5, 4-up
• Storage Systems, 4-up
• Chapter 8, 4-up
• Midterm histogram
• Notes from the TA on Memory Hierarchies
• Solved Problems Memory Hierarchies
• Homework 
• due 4/4: Homework 1
• due 4/18: Homework 2 (just the eps pipeline)
• due 4/30: Homework 3
• due 5/23: Homework 4

General Class Information

Class Newsgroup: 

ucsc.class.cmpe202 - for announcements, general discussion, and help 

cupertino202 - for anyone unable to use the UCSC newsgroup, posts will be relayed to this mail alias 

Lecture times: 

Tuesday and Thursday, 6pm to 8pm

Instructor:

Name: Richard Hughey (rph@soe) 

Office: 315A

See syllabus for more information

Teaching Assistant: 

Name: Javi Mesa-Martinez (javi@soe.ucsc.edu) 

Tutor/Grader: 

Name: Alexandra Carey (fire@soe.ucsc.edu)