EE 4720 - Lectures

• Midterm Exam Review
  Covered 24 March 2010
  [Slides, Normal (54.1 kB PDF)]
  

• Set 1: Course Intro; ISA and Implementation
  Covered 20, 22 January 2010
  [Slides, Normal (71.8 kB PDF)]
  

• Lecture Slides: MIPS Overview
  Covered 25, 27, 29 January, 1 3 February 2010
  Additional Material
  • MIPS String Length Example
  • MIPS Upper-Case Example
  • MIPS Histogram Example

• Set 6: Unpiplined and Pipelined MIPS Implementations
  Book sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4. 5, 8, 10, 12, 19, 22, 24, 26 February 2010
  [Slides, Normal (196 kB PDF)]
  

• Set 2.1: Optimization
  10, 12, 15 March 2010
  

• Set 2: CPU Performance Equation, Benchmarks
  Book sections 1.5, 1.6. Benchmarks covered 17, 19, 22 March 2010
  [Slides, Normal (123 kB PDF)]
  

• Set 8: Interrupts, Exceptions, and Traps
  Book sections 3.6. Covered 22, 12 April 2010
  [Slides, Normal (82.1 kB PDF)]
  

• Set 9: Long Latency Operations (floating point, etc)
  Book sections 3.7, 4.1. Covered 12, 14, 16 April 2010
  [Slides, Normal (141 kB PDF)]
  

• Set 11: Multiple Issue (VLIW and Superscalar)
  Book sections 4.4. Covered 16, 19, 21, 23 April 2010
  [Slides, Normal (91.1 kB PDF)]
  

• Set 12: Branch Prediction, Speculative Execution (Under construction)
  Book sections 4.3. Covered 23, ... April 2010
  [Slides, Normal (122 kB PDF)]