55:132/22C:160 Spring, 2011
Lecture Notes
Note: Lecture notes will be
posted only as long as class attendance remains high. If class attendance
drops below an acceptable level, posting of lecture notes will be
suspended. Notes may not be posted for all lectures.
First
Lecture Slide Set (01/18/11 and 01/20/11 lectures)
Second
Lecture Slide Set (01/20/11 and 01/25/11 lectures)
Third
Lecture Slide Set: Verilog Tutorial (01/27/11,
02/01/11 lectures)
Verilog
Behavioral Modeling Example (02/01/11 lecture)
Fourth
Lecture Note Set (02/03/11, 02/08/11, and 02/11/11 lectures) (updated after
lecture on 02/03/11)
Instruction
Set Architecture for Discussion of five-stage pipeline (02/03/11 – 02/11/11
lectures)
Fifth
Lecture Note Set (02/15/11,02/17/11 and 02/22/11
lectures) (updated 02/28/11)
Sixth
Lecture Note Set (03/01/11, 03/3/11 lectures)
Information Regarding Midterm
Exam
Midterm
Review (03/08/11 lecture)
Seventh
Lecture Note Set (posted 03/22/11)
Eighth
Lecture Note Set (Memory System) posted 03/28/11
Information for Second Verilog Project (04/05/11 lecture)
Ninth Lecture
Note Set (Multiprocessors), posted 04/21/11
Case Studies: Traditional
Superscalar processors: PPC620, Intel P6
Case Study: Modern Superscalar
Architecture: Intel Nehalem
Case Study: Outside the Box: Sun (Oracle) T1,
T2, T3