CMPE202: Computer Architecture/Spring 2006

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Requesting academic accommodations:

If you would like to request academic accommodations due to a disability, please contact the Disabled Resource Center , 146 Hahn Student Services, (831)459-2089(voice) (831)459-4806(TDD/TTY). They can authorize specific accommodations for you in CMPE202 on an Accommodation Request Form. Please present this form to me early in the quarter so that we can discuss the accommodations you might need for class. You will need to see me again at least three weeks before each exam to arrange for testing accommodations.

Online References:

Course Information

Time and Place: TueThur noon-1:45pm (april 4, Porter 246) afterwards E2 Engineering 201

Prerequisite: CMPE110 Computer Architecture Fulfilling pre-requisite

Staff:

Instructor: Pak K. Chan
Location: Engineering_2 229 Phone: (831)459-4156
Office Hours: Monday 2:00-3:00pm (changed from 10-11am to satisfy someone)

Grading: You must turn in ALL homeworks.
- 20% 3 or 4 Homeworks, (late homeworks will not be accepted)
- 25% mid-term examination (approximately 5.5th week, in class).
- 25% Three journal papers critique; reports AND class presentation. Papers shall cover instruction set design, computer arithmetic, memory, and instruction sequencing.
- 30% final examination (in class Final week, 200 5).
Policy concerning homeworks:
I'll hand out the homeworks in lecture and each homework assignment must be due 7 days later. Your homework will be graded (though not necessarily corrected). You are not allowed to submit your homeworks, reports, exams etc by electronic mail or fax. Please don't be late for classes.

Academic Integrity:
- Thou shall not cheat !
- Thou shall do thy work individually
- Thou shall do thy work honestly
- Thou shall not copy thy neighbor's work
List of papers that you must read: List of must-read papers . I will furnish a master copy on the first day of class.
Optional Text:
1. Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors
2. Readings in Computer Architecture
3. List of papers in this text: List of papers . This text has some (but not all) of the papers that you must read.
Offline References:
1. ``Computer Architecture, Concepts and Evolution'' Gerrit A. Blaauw and Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. Addison Wesley.
2. ``The Design and Analysis of Instruction Set Processors,'' Barbacci/Siewiorek.
3. ``Advanced in Computer Architecture,'' Glenford Myers, Jr.
4. ``Computer Architecture, A Quatitative Approach'' Patterson and Hennessy
5. ``The Architecture of Pipelined Computer,'' Peter M. Kogge.
6. ``Computer Number Systems and Arithmetic,'' Norman Scott, Prentice-Hall, c1985.
7. ``Introduction to Arithmetic for Digital Systems Designers,'' Waser/Flynn
8. ``Computer Architecture,'' Vol. I and II, Subrata Dasgupta.
9. ``The Structure of: Computers and Computations,'' David Kuck.
10. ``MIPS R2000 RISC Architecture,'' Gerry Kane, Prentice-Hall.
11. ``POWER and PowerPC, Principles, Architectre, Implementation'' Weiss and Smith. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
12. ``Capability-based computer systems'' Henry M. Levy. Bedford, Mass. : Digital Press, c1984.
Topics
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 1. Computer Architecture, Implementation and Realization (Ref 1, chapter 1)
 2. Description of computer architectures (Ref 2 + Verilog manuals manual)
 3. Esoteric computer architectures (Ref 3 + Ref 12 + readings(Fabry74,Arvind,Colwell))
 4. Computer Arithmetic (Refs 6 and 7 + papers by Goldsmith and Goldberg)
 5. Instruction Sets (Ref 4, papers by P.Emma, Hitchcock, Patterson)
 6. Pipelined Implementations and Sequencing (papers by Tomatsulo, Anderson et al, Keller)
 7. Branch Architecture (papers by Smith and Yeh/Patt)
 8. Precise and Imprecise Interrupt (paper by J.Smith)
 9. Memory hierarchy (Papers by Chow, Agarawal)
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