Today we’ll wrap up our overview of computer systems with a high-level look at how operating systems use the hardware to create the illusion of multiple programs running at once.
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Operating Systems and Input/Output
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009Virtual Memory
Thursday, April 16th, 2009We’ve seen how to make our memory system fast, now we’ll look at how to make it big using virtual memory.
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More on Caches
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009Today we’ll finish our discussion of caches by looking at some of the details.
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Memory Hierarchy
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009Today we’ll begin talking about approaches to optimizing the memory system for our computer.
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Pipelining
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009Today we’ll introduce the concept of pipelining to optimize computer performance.
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Implementing our computer
Thursday, March 26th, 2009Today we’ll take a high-level view of implementation of a computer using the pieces we’ve discussed so far. It will look horrible but it actually is pretty simple.
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This is from chapter 5 in your book.
Finite State Machines and Control of Execution
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009Today we’ll cover the last piece of technology that we need to build a working computer.
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Readings associated with today’s and upcoming lectures include: Appendix B.10-B.12 and Ch 5.1-5.4
Memory
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009In the next lecture we’ll talk about the implementation of memory.
Readings associated with this lecture can be found in B.7-B.9 and B.12.
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Performance
Thursday, March 5th, 2009Today we’ll talk about measures of computer system performance that help designers and users evaluate implementation issues.
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Floating Point
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009In today’s lecture we’ll consider the wonders and worries of floating point arithmetic.
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