Welcome to the Spring 2008 CS152 web page. We have made substantial changes to the course curriculum this semester. Our goal is for you to better understand how software interacts with hardware. The course is intended to provide a foundation for students interested in performance programming, compilers, and operating systems, as well as computer architecture and engineering. Instead of a large FPGA-based design project, students will complete a series of lab assignments using a variety of computer architectures. A separate follow-on lab course will be offered in Fall 2008, focusing exclusively on advanced processor implementation using FPGA prototyping (for which both CS150 and CS152 will be a prerequisite). Dropping the design project in CS152 leaves more time to study more advanced topics in computer architecture, and in particular, the move to multicore parallel processing. Many of the topics we will cover this semester were previously only offered in the CS252 graduate course. We have also removed the CS150 prerequisite for the new CS152.
The course will cover the different forms of parallelism found in applications (instruction-level, data-level, thread-level, gate-level) and how these can be exploited with various architectural features. We will also explore techniques that take advantage of the predictability in real applications to accelerate execution or simplify hardware.
Week | Date | Lecture | Readings, Assignment | Due |
1 | Tue Jan 22 | L1: Introduction, ISA Design PPT PDF | ||
Wed Jan 23 | No section | |||
Thu Jan 24 | L2: Simple Machine Implementations PPT PDF | Ch. 1, App. B | ||
2 | Tue Jan 29 | S1: Introduction to Simics PPT PDF | ||
Wed Jan 30 | No section | |||
Thu Jan 31 | L3: From CISC to RISC PPT PDF | |||
3 | Tue Feb 5 | L4: Pipelining PPT PDF |
A.1-A.3, Lab 1 PDF ZIP tar.gz PS 1 ZIP tar.gz |
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Wed Feb 6 | S2: Lab 1 overview. | Section problem set and solutions | ||
Thu Feb 7 | L5: Pipelining part II PPT PDF | A.4 | ||
4 | Tue Feb 12 | L6: Memory Hierarchy PPT PDF |
C.1-C.3, PS 1 solutions DOC PDF |
PS 1 due |
Wed Feb 13 | S3: PS 1 Review | |||
Thu Feb 14 | L7: Memory Hierarchy II PPT PDF | |||
Fri Feb 15 |
PS 2 ZIP tar.gz |
Lab 1 due, 5pm in 645 Soda | ||
5 | Mon Feb 18 | President's Day Holiday | No Office Hours | |
Tue Feb 19 | Quiz 1: ISAs, microcode, simple pipelines | Lab 2 PDF ZIP tar.gz | ||
Wed Feb 20 | S4: Lab 2 overview | |||
Thu Feb 21 | L8: Memory Hierarchy III PPT PDF | |||
6 | Tue Feb 26 | L9: Address Translation and Protection PPT PDF |
Quiz 1 solutions
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PS 2 solutions DOC PDF |
PS 2 due |
Wed Feb 27 | S5: PS 2 review | Section handouts PDF | ||
Thu Feb 28 | L10: Virtual Memory PPT PDF | PS 3 ZIP tar.gz | Lab 2 due | |
7 | Tue Mar 4 | Quiz 2: Memory Hierarchies | Lab 3 PDF ZIP tar.gz | |
Wed Mar 5 | S6: Lab 3 overview | |||
Thu Mar 6 | L11: Virtual Memory and Caches PPT PDF | |||
8 | Tue Mar 11 | L12: Complex pipelines PPT PDF | A.5-A.8 | PS 3 due |
Wed Mar 12 | S7: PS 3 review |
PS 3 solutions DOC
PDF Section problems solutions |
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Thu Mar 13 | L13: Out-of-order issue and register renaming PPT PDF | Ch 2.1-2.5 | Lab 3 due | |
9 | Tue Mar 18 | Quiz 3: Virtual Memory |
Lab 4 PDF
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tar.gz PS 4 DOC PDF |
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Wed Mar 19 | S8: Lab 4 overview | |||
Thu Mar 20 | L14: Branch Prediction PPT PDF | |||
10 | Mar 24-28 | Spring Break | ||
11 | Tue Apr 1 | L15: Advanced Superscalars PPT PDF | ||
Wed Apr 2 | No Section | |||
Thu Apr 3 | L16: VLIW PPT PDF | |||
12 | Tue Apr 8 | L17: Vectors PPT PDF | PS 4 due, Lab 4 due | |
Wed Apr 9 | S9: PS 4 review | PS 4 solutions DOC PDF | ||
Thu Apr 10 | Quiz 4: Complex Pipelining |
Lab 5 PDF
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tar.gz PS 5 DOC PDF |
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13 | Tue Apr 15 | L18: Multithreading PPT PDF | ||
Wed Apr 16 | S10: Lab 5 overview | |||
Thu Apr 17 | L19: Synchronization and Sequential Consistency PPT PDF | Quiz 4 solutions DOC PDF | ||
14 | Tue Apr 22 | L20: Snoopy Caches PPT PDF | PS 5 due, Lab 5 due | |
Wed Apr 23 | S11: PS 5 review | PS 5 solutions DOC PDF | ||
Thu Apr 24 | Quiz 5: VLIW, Vectors, Multithreading |
Lab 6 PDF
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tar.gz PS 6 ZIP tar.gz |
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15 | Tue Apr 29 | L21: Directory Protocols PPT PDF | ||
Wed Apr 30 | S12: Lab 6 overview | |||
Thu May 1 | No lecture | |||
16 | Tue May 6 | L22: Final lecture PPT PDF | PS 6 solutions DOC PDF | PS6 due, Lab 6 due |
Wed May 7 | S13: PS 6 review | |||
Thu May 8 | Quiz 6: Parallel Architectures |