CS441/641 - Architecture - 2012

Announcements

• Final exam and course grades are on NetRun.
• The final exam is 8am-10am Thursday, December 13.
• Project 2 final versions are due Thursday, December 13, before midnight on Blackboard.
• Project 2 rough drafts are due by midnight Tuesday, November 20 on Blackboard.
• Project 2 topics are due in class Tuesday, November 13.
• Homework 4 required you to write code to talk to several network servers of my own design. Due by midnight Thursday, November 8.
• Project 1 presentations were in class Thursday, October 25; with 641 students on Tuesday, October 6. Lecture notes:
  • Fuzzy Logic
  • Nanowires
  • Hard Drive Addressing
  • DNA Computing
  • PyCUDA
  • Out of Order Execution
  • Game Console vs PC Evolution
  • PS3 Hardware and Software Architecture
• Project 1 final drafts were due Tuesday, October 23 on Blackboard.
• HW2 was on NetRun, and due Thursday, October 18. But it might be good practice for the exam, in class Tuesday, October 16!
• Project 1 rough drafts were due Thursday, October 11 on Blackboard.
• Project 1 topics were due in class Tuesday, October 2.
  
• HW1: Build a simple CPU inside a digital circuit simulator, like Logisim (see below). Feel free to start from one of my examples in the lecture notes!
  
• You must have at least 3 registers.
• You must have at least 3 operations, including addition (see "Arithmetic" -> "Adder")
• You must have at least one branch-type instruction (for example, jump to a given address, skip the next instruction, etc).
• You must drive the registers and operations from a single ROM (or RAM). The only manual input should be the clock.
• 641 students: add your choice of CISC instruction encoding, pipelining, or RAM read/write access.
• Send me the .circ file, and a .jpg screenshot of the CPU adding 3 and 5 from two of the registers and storing the result in a third register.  Turn these in on Blackboard (log in there first). Due by midnight Tuesday, September 18.
  
• HW0 is due in-class Thursday, Sept 6. You can download the Logisim circuit simulator and runnable .circ files here.

Links

• Lecture Notes:
  • 11_29_reduction, Parallel Reductions modified 2012-12-14
  • 11_19_EPGPU, GPU programming with OpenCL and EPGPU modified 2012-11-28
  • 11_15_CUDA, CUDA: NVIDIA's C++ on the GPU modified 2012-11-30
  • 11_13_heatflow, Simulating Heat Flow in Parallel modified 2012-11-12
  • 11_08_MPI, Message Passing Interface modified 2012-11-08
  • 11_06_communication, Practical Problems in Network Communication, and PUP modified 2012-11-06
  • 10_30_network, Basic Network Programming with Sockets modified 2013-04-05
  • 10_11_crosscutting, Review for Midterm: Crosscutting Issues modified 2012-10-11
  • 10_09_SSE, SSE and AVX: SIMD for x86 modified 2012-10-08
  • 10_02_SIMD, Single Instruction, Multiple Data modified 2012-10-01
  • 09_27_multicore, Different Roads to Multicore Histogramming modified 2012-09-26
  • 09_20_cache, Memory Hierarchy and Cache modified 2012-09-19
  • 09_18_multicore, Multicore Parallel Programming & Pitfalls modified 2012-09-17
  • 09_13_superscalar, Superscalar and Out of Order execution, and Register Renaming modified 2012-09-13
  • 09_11_pipelining, Pipelining, Dependencies, and Operand Forwarding modified 2012-09-10
  • 09_06_CPUs, CPU and Instruction Set Design modified 2012-09-06
  • 08_30_electrons, Electrons, Units, and Semiconductors modified 2012-09-04
• Course syllabus includes dates to remember, the grading policy, office hours, and a course outline.
• NetRun lets you run code right from your web browser. Anybody with a UAF email address can get a password online. See NetRun Help.
  

Documentation

• If you haven't written x86 assembly, read my x86 assembly cheat sheet or the NASM Docs, in particular the x86 Instruction List. The old CS 301 site is useful too, especially the lecture notes.
• I now recommend the digital circuit simulator Logisim, which is modern and Java. It doesn't simulate timing glitches with the same fidelity as TkGate, but this is actually an advantage if you're not an EE!

O. Lawlor, lawlor@alaska.edu
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