• Course Description
  • General Information
  • Instructor
  • Teaching Assistant
  • Textbook
  • Additional Material
  • Grading
  • Course Syllabus
  • Other General Information
• Copies of Transparencies (postscript format)
  • Course Outline
  • Fundamentals of Computer Architecture
  • Instruction Set Design: Principles (Part 1)
  • Instruction Set Design: Principles (Part 2)
  • Processor Design and Pipelining (Part 1)
  • Processor Design and Pipelining (Part 2)
  • Processor Design and Pipelining (Part 3)
  • Memory System Design
  • Storage Systems
• Homeworks and Assignments
  • Homework 1 (Due Tuesday, February 22, 2000)
  • Homework 2 (Due Thursday, March 23, 2000) Solutions
  • Homework 3 (Due Tuesday, May 2, 2000) Solutions
• Practice Problems (not to be turned in)
  • Fundamentals of Computer Architecture and ISA Design
    • Chapter 2: Exercises 2.1-2.12
    • Chapter 3: Exercises 3.6-3.9, 3.19, 3.20
    • Additional problems (not from book) Solutions
  • Processor Design and Pipelining
    • Chapter 6: Exercises 6.1-6.4, 6.11-6.13, 6.15, 6.20, 6.30
    • Additional problems (not from book) Solutions
  • Cache and Memory Subsystem:
    • Chapter 7: Exercises 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 7.13, 7.27, 7.29
    • Chapter 7: Exercises 7.32, 7.33, 7.34, 7.35, 7.36 (Virtual Memory Systems) Partial Solutions
  • I/O Subsystem:
    • Chapter 8: Exercises 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.8, 8.10 Partial Solutions
  
  
• FINAL:
  Date: MONDAY, MAY 15;
  Time: 9AM - Noon;
  Location: TAY 2.106
  PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, UNIVERSITY SCHEDULED TIME FOR THE FINAL!!
  
  
• Projects
  • Project 1: Cache Simulation Project (Due Thursday, April 20, 2000) (NO LATE SUBMISSIONS!!)
  • Project 2: Disk Simulator Project
    • Project Description (Due Wednesday, May 10, 2000 at Noon, in TAY 4.115B) (NO LATE SUBMISSIONS!!)
    • CSIM Disk Simulator Code
    • The project can be carried out by groups of two students.
    • CSIM Information
      • CSIM18 Primer
      • CSIM18 User Guide for C
      • CSIM18 User Guide for C++
      • Using CSIM in CS Department

Course Description

General Information

Course Title: CS352: Computer Architecture
Course Details: Spring 2000, Unique Number: 49215
Time and Place: TTh 9:30 - 11:00, Taylor Hall 2.106

Instructor

Professor Harrick Vin
Office: TAY 4.115B
Phone: 471-9732, E-mail: vin@cs.utexas.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday 4:00 - 5:00 or by appointment

Teaching Assistant

Alok Kumar
E-mail: alok@cs.utexas.edu
Office Hours: Thursday 3:30 - 4:30 and Friday 3:00 - 4:00; or by appointment
Location: UA9 4.116

Required Textbook

David Patterson and John Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, 2nd edition, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1997

Some notes and handouts will supplement the book.

Additional Material

This course requires knowledge of C/C++ as a prerequisite. You will need to use C/C++ in your projects. Hence, you may need a good C/C++ reference manual.

Grading

This course will have two exams--a midterm and a final; approximately four homework assignments; and several programming assignments/projects. The homeworks will help you better understand the material being covered in the class. The programming project will involve C/C++ programming, and will provide you a glimpse of developing and using software simulators for computer architecture design and analysis.

Your grade will be determined using midterm (25%), homeworks (20%), projects (30%), and final exam (25%).

Course Syllabus

1.

Fundamentals of Computer Design (Chapters 1 and 2)

2.

Instruction Set Architectures and Examples (Chapter 3)

3.

Organization of a CPU (Chapter 5 and 6)

4.

Architectural Concepts of Memory Hierarchies (Chapter 7)

5.

Storage System Design (Chapter 8)

6.

Advance Architectures (Chapter 9 - only if time permits)

Other General Information

All CS students who meet the prerequisites for CS352 are eligible for a CS department PERMANENT UNIX account. If you do not already have one, then be sure to get one from the Undergraduate office in TAY 2.126. If you are NOT a CS major then you will need to get a departmental TEMPORARY account. To do so, take your fee bill to TAY 2.126 and fill out the appropriate form.

The department has written several CS-specific Unix handouts, which are available in Taylor Hall next to room 2.136 or on the department's computing facilities web pages.

If you want to access CS workstations from home, you will need to get a TELESYS account from the Computation Center which will be an IF (individually funded) account costing a few cents per day.