Welcome to the Spring 2009 CS152 web page. 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. Our goal is for you to better understand how software interacts with hardware, and to understand how trends in technology, applications, and economics drive continuing changes in the field. 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.
We made substantial changes to the CS152 course curriculum last Spring. Instead of a large FPGA-based design project, students will complete a series of lab assignments using a variety of computer architectures. Dropping the FPGA design project in CS152 allows us to remove the CS150 prerequisite and 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 were previously only offered in the CS252 graduate course.
Extra course materials
Week | Date | Lecture | Readings | Assignments |
1 | Tue Jan 20 | L1: Introduction, ISA Design PPT PDF | ||
Thu Jan 22 | S1: Introduction to Simics simulator PPT PDF | |||
Fri Jan 23 | No section | |||
2 | Tue Jan 27 | L2: Simple Machine Implementations PPT PDF | Ch. 1, App. B | |
Thu Jan 29 | L3: From CISC to RISC PPT PDF |
Lab 1
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PS 1 ZIP tar.gz |
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Fri Jan 30 | S2: Lab 1 overview PDF solutions | |||
3 | Tue Feb 3 | L4: Pipelining PPT PDF | A.1-A.3 | |
Thu Feb 5 | L5: Pipelining part II PPT PDF | A.4 | ||
Fri Feb 6 | S3: Pipelining review PDF | |||
4 | Tue Feb 10 | L6: Memory Hierarchy PPT PDF | C.1-C.3 | PS 1 due, Lab 1 due |
Wed Feb 11 | S4: PS 1 review 3111 Etcheverry, 12-1pm | PS 1 solutions DOC PDF | ||
Thu Feb 12 |
Quiz 1: ISAs, microcode, simple pipelines Solutions: DOC PDF |
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5 | Mon Feb 16 | President's Day Holiday | No Office Hours | |
Tue Feb 17 | L7: Memory Hierarchy II (in 320 Soda) PPT PDF |
PS 2
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Lab 2 PDF ZIP tar.gz |
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Thu Feb 19 | L8: Memory Hierarchy III PPT PDF | |||
Fri Feb 20 | S5: Lab 2 overview PDF solutions | |||
6 | Tue Feb 24 | L9: Address Translation and Protection PPT PDF | ||
Thu Feb 26 | L10: Virtual Memory PPT PDF | PS 2 due, Lab 2 due | ||
Fri Feb 27 | S6: PS 2 review | PS 2 solutions DOC PDF | ||
7 | Tue Mar 3 |
Quiz 2: Memory Hierarchies Solutions: DOC PDF |
PS 3
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Lab 3 PDF ZIP tar.gz |
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Thu Mar 5 | L11: Virtual Memory and Caches PPT PDF | |||
Fri Mar 6 | S7: Lab 3 overview PDF | |||
8 | Tue Mar 10 | L12: Complex pipelines PPT PDF | A.5-A.8 | |
Thu Mar 12 | L13: Out-of-order issue, register renaming, branch prediction PPT PDF | Ch 2.1-2.5 | PS 3 due, Lab 3 due | |
Fri Mar 13 | S8: PS 3 review |
PS 3 solutions
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9 | Tue Mar 17 | L14: Advanced Out-of-Order Superscalars (in 320 Soda) PPT PDF | ||
Thu Mar 19 |
Quiz 3: Virtual Memory Solutions: DOC PDF |
PS 4
DOC PDF Lab 4 PDF ZIP tar.gz |
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Fri Mar 20 | S9: Lab 4 overview PDF solutions | |||
10 | Mar 23-27 | Spring Break | ||
11 | Tue Mar 31 | L15: Out-of-Order Memory Accesses, Complex Superscalar Review PPT PDF | ||
Thu Apr 2 | L16: VLIW PPT PDF | PS 4 due, Lab 4 due | ||
Fri Apr 3 | S10: PS 4 review | PS 4 solutions DOC PDF | ||
12 | Tue Apr 7 |
Quiz 4: Complex Pipelining Solutions: DOC PDF |
PS 5
DOC PDF Lab 5 PDF ZIP tar.gz |
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Thu Apr 9 | L17: Vectors PPT PDF | App. F | ||
Fri Apr 10 | S11: Lab 5 overview PDF | |||
13 | Tue Apr 14 | L18: Multithreading PPT PDF | ||
Thu Apr 16 | L19: Synchronization and Sequential Consistency PPT PDF | |||
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14 | Tue Apr 21 | L20: Snoopy Caches PPT PDF | PS 5 due, Lab 5 due | |
Wed Apr 22 | S12: PS 5 review (in 310 Soda) | PS 5 solutions DOC PDF | ||
Thu Apr 23 |
Quiz 5: VLIW, Vectors, Multithreading Solutions: DOC PDF |
PS 6
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tar.gz Lab 6 PDF ZIP tar.gz |
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Fri Apr 24 | S13: Lab 6 overview PDF | |||
15 | Tue Apr 28 | L21: Directory Protocols (Scott) PPT PDF | ||
Thu Apr 30 | L22: Virtual Machines PPT PDF | |||
Fri May 1 | ||||
16 | Tue May 5 | L23: Putting it all Together: Nehalem | PS 6 due, Lab 6 due | |
Wed May 6 | S14: PS 6 review (405 Soda, 12-1p) | PS 6 solutions DOC PDF | ||
Thu May 7 |
Quiz 6: Parallel Architectures Solutions: DOC PDF |