Welcome to the Spring 2010 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 the design of memory systems including caches, virtual memory, and DRAM. An important part of the course is a series of lab assignments using commercial simulation tools to evaluate and develop architectural ideas while running real applications and operating systems.
Extra course materials
Week | Date | Lecture | Readings | Assignments |
1 | Tue Jan 19 | L1: Introduction, Early Machines PPTX PDF | ||
Thu Jan 21 | L2: Simple Machine Implementations, Microcoding PPTX PDF | Ch. 1, App. B | ||
Thu Jan 21 | No section | |||
2 | Tue Jan 26 | L3: From CISC to RISC PPTX PDF | PS 1 ZIP tar.gz | |
Thu Jan 28 | L4: Pipelining PPTX PDF | A.1-A.3 | Lab 1 PDF ZIP tar.gz | |
Thu Jan 28 | Section 1: Introduction to Simics simulator | |||
3 | Tue Feb 2 | L5: Pipelining part II PPTX PDF | A.4 | |
Thu Feb 4 | L6: Memory Hierarchy PPTX PDF | C.1-C.3 | ||
Thu Feb 4 | Section 2: Lab 1 Overview PPT Handout PDF | |||
4 | Tue Feb 9 | L7: Memory Hierarchy II PPTX PDF | ||
Thu Feb 11 | L8: Memory Hierarchy III PPTX PDF | PS 1 due, Lab 1 due | ||
Thu Feb 11 | Section 3: PS 1 Review PPT | PS 1 solutions DOC PDF | ||
5 | Mon Feb 15 | President's Day Holiday | No Office Hours | |
Tue Feb 16 | Quiz 1: ISAs, microcode, simple pipelines Solutions: DOC PDF |
PS 2
ZIP tar.gz
Lab 2 PDF ZIP tar.gz |
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Thu Feb 18 | L9: Address Translation and Protection PPTX PDF | |||
Thu Feb 18 | Section 4: Lab 2 overview | |||
6 | Tue Feb 23 | L10: Virtual Memory (Andrew) PPTX PDF | ||
Thu Feb 25 | L11: Virtual Memory and Caches PPTX PDF | |||
Thu Feb 25 | Section 5: Memory Hierarchy review PPT | |||
7 | Tue Mar 2 | L12: Complex pipelines PPTX PDF | A.5-A.8 | |
Thu Mar 4 | L13: Out-of-order issue, register renaming, branch prediction PPTX PDF | Ch 2.1-2.5 | PS 2 due, Lab 2 due | |
Thu Mar 4 | Section 6: PS 2 Review | PS 2 solutions DOC PDF | ||
8 | Tue Mar 9 |
Quiz 2: Memory Hierarchies and Virtual Memory |
PS 3
DOC PDF
Lab 3 PDF ZIP tar.gz |
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Thu Mar 11 | L14: Advanced Out-of-Order Superscalars PPTX PDF | |||
Thu Mar 11 | Section 7: Lab 3 Overview PPT | |||
9 | Tue Mar 16 | L15: VLIW PPTX PDF | ||
Thu Mar 18 | L16: Vectors PPTX PDF | App. F | PS 3 due, Lab 3 due | |
Thu Mar 18 | Section 8: Complex Pipelining Review PPT |
PS 3 solutions
DOC
PDF |
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10 | Mar 22-26 | Spring Break | ||
11 | Tue Mar 30 |
Quiz 3: Complex Pipelining Solutions: DOC PDF |
PS 4
DOC PDF
Lab 4 PDF ZIP tar.gz |
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Thu Apr 1 | L17: Vectors Part II PPTX PDF | App. F | ||
Thu Apr 1 | Section 9: Lab 4 Overview | |||
12 | Tue Apr 6 | L18: Multithreading PPTX PDF | ||
Thu Apr 8 | L19: Synchronization and Sequential Consistency (Andrew) PPTX PDF | PS 4 due, Lab 4 due | ||
Thu Apr 8 | Section 10: PS 4 Review | PS 4 solutions DOC PDF | ||
13 | Tue Apr 13 |
Quiz 4: VLIW, Vectors, Multithreading Solutions: DOC PDF |
PS 5
PDF
ZIP
tar.gz Lab 5 PDF ZIP tar.gz |
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Thu Apr 15 | L20: Snoopy Caches PPTX PDF | |||
Thu Apr 15 | Section 11: Lab 5 Overview | |||
14 | Tue Apr 20 | L21: Directory Protocols PPTX PDF | ||
Thu Apr 22 | L22: Virtual Machines PPTX PDF | PS 5 due, Lab 5 due | ||
Thu Apr 22 | Section 12: PS 5 Review |
PS 5 solutions
DOC
PDF |
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15 | Tue Apr 27 | L23: Putting it all Together: Intel Nehalem PPTX PDF | ||
Thu Apr 29 |
Quiz 5: Parallel Architectures Solutions: DOC PDF |