EE 4720 - Lectures

• Midterm Exam Review
  Covered 28 March 2016
  [Slides, Normal (58.3 kB PDF)]
  

• Final Exam Review
  Covered 2 May 2016
  [Slides, Normal (77.5 kB PDF)]
  

• Set 1: Course Intro; ISA and Implementation
  Covered 13, 15, 20 January 2016
  [Slides, Normal (75.8 kB PDF)]
  Additional Material
  • Unsigned to hex string example, finished version.

• Lecture Slides: MIPS Review
  Not covered, but useful for review.
  

• Lecture Slides: Array Access Examples
  Covered 22 January 2016
  

• Lecture Slides: Floating-Point MIPS Instructions
  Covered 22, 25 January 2016
  

• Set 6: Unpiplined and Pipelined MIPS Implementations
  Covered 25, 27, 29 January; 1, 3, 12, 15, 17, 19, 22 February 2016
  [Slides, Normal (263 kB PDF)]
  Additional Material
  • Missing bypass paths, from Spring 2012 Midterm
  • Missing bypass paths, from Spring 2012 Midterm, with solution

• Set 2.7: ISA Families Overview; MIPS v. SPARC
  Covered 22, 24, 26, 29 February 2016
  

• Set 2.1: Optimization
  Covered 2, 4, 7 March 2016
  Additional Material
  • Pi Program to Demonstrate CPI and Optimization
  • Pi Program SPARC Assembler, Without Optimization
  • Pi Program SPARC Assembler, With Optimization

• Set 2: Benchmarks
  Benchmarks covered 7, 9, 11, 14 March 2016
  [Slides, Normal (54.9 kB PDF)]
  

• Set 8: Interrupts, Exceptions, and Traps
  Covered 14, 17, 18 March 2016
  [Slides, Normal (85.4 kB PDF)]
  

• Set 9: Long Latency Operations (floating point, etc)
  Covered 1, 4, 6 April 2016
  [Slides, Normal (145 kB PDF)]
  

• Set 11: Multiple Issue (VLIW and Superscalar)
  Covered 6, 8, 11 April 2016
  [Slides, Normal (133 kB PDF)]
  

• Set 12: Branch Prediction, Speculative Execution (Under construction)
  Covered 13, 15, 18, 20 April 2016
  [Slides, Normal (163 kB PDF)]
  

• Set 13: Caches and Memory (Under Construction)
  Covered 22, 25, 27, 29 April 2016
  [Slides, Normal (166 kB PDF)]