Pipelining
April 3rd, 2007Today we’ll see how we can speed up our computer using pipelining. Lecture 17 slides.
Readings
April 3rd, 2007For more on instruction execution read section 5.5. For an overview of pipelining read 6.1. Coming up soon we’ll be talking about memory hierarchy, for a preview read sections 7.1 and 7.2.
Execution
March 29th, 2007Today we’ll go over the results of the quiz and then look at instruction execution. Lecture 16 slides.
Quiz 2 review
March 22nd, 2007Today we’ll look back over what we have covered so far in preparation for the quiz on Tuesday. I’ve collected a few slides to help us remember but I’d rather answer your questions than simply go through these. Bring questions on ANYTHING and we’ll try to make all clear. Quiz 2 review slides
Control
March 20th, 2007Today we’ll begin to look at the datapath and how we generate the signals to control it. Finite-state machines, the basis for control, are an interesting and useful topic for many areas besides computer organization. Lecture 15 slides.
Books finally available in the bookstore
March 8th, 2007I sure hope you’ve already got one but the folks at the bookstore emailed to say the books are in!
Problem Set 7, Performance
March 8th, 2007Just a few problems from the book to prepare you for questions about performance. Problem Set 7
Memory
March 8th, 2007Today we’ll talk about how to implement storage such as registers, ROM, and RAM. Lecture 14 slides.
Second midterm Tuesday 27 March
March 8th, 2007Changed from 29th originally estimated in the syllabus. We will review for the exam on Thursday 22 March.
Performance
March 5th, 2007In this lecture we’ll talk about measuring and understanding the performance of computer systems. Lecture 13 slides.