EE 4720 - Lectures

• Midterm Exam Review
  Covered 14 March 2018
  [Slides, Normal (PDF)]
  

• Final Exam Review
  Covered 28 April 2018
  [Slides, Normal (PDF)]
  

• Set 1: Course Intro; ISA and Implementation
  Covered 10, 12, 22 January 2018
  [Slides, Normal (PDF)]
  Additional Material
  • Paper in which the term "[Instruction Set] Architecture" was popularized.

• Lecture Slides: MIPS Review
  Not covered, but useful for review.
  Additional Material
  • String length example, end of class Monday 22 Jan.
  • Finished string length example, end of class Wednesday 24 Jan.
  • Hex string example, end of class Wednesday 24 Jan.

• Lecture Slides: Array Access Examples
  Covered 29 January 2018
  

• Lecture Slides: Control Flow (if, loops) MIPS Examples
  Covered 29, 31 January 2018
  

• Lecture Slides: Floating-Point MIPS Instructions
  Covered 31 January 2018, 2 February 2018
  

• Set 6: Unpiplined and Pipelined MIPS Implementations
  Covered 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 19, 21, 28 February, 2, 5 March 2018
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  Additional Material
  • 2017 Homework 5 (12-bit bypass), covered 2 March
  • 2016 Homework 2 (bgtz), covered 5 March
  • 2017 Homework 3 (bgezall), covered 5, 7 March
  • Adding a shift unit example, from Fall 2010 Homework. Not covered but good practice

• Set 2.7: ISA Families Overview; MIPS v. SPARC
  Covered 7, 9, 12, 16 March 2018
  

• Set 2.1: Optimization
  Covered 23 March, 2, 4, 6 April 2018
  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 6, 9 April 2018
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• Set 8: Interrupts, Exceptions, and Traps
  Covered 9, 11, 13 April 2018
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• Set 9: Long Latency Operations (floating point, etc)
  Covered 13, 16, 18 April 2018
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• Set 11: Multiple Issue (VLIW and Superscalar)
  Covered 18, 2, 23 April 2018
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• Set 12: Branch Prediction, Speculative Execution (Under construction)
  Covered 23, 25, 27 April 2018
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• Set 13: Caches and Memory (Under Construction)
  Covered 27, 28 April 2018
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