ECE 2162 Computer Architecture

General Information

Instructor:	Jun Yang, 336 Benedum
Telephone:	x49088
Email:	juy9@pitt.edu
Class Meeting Time:	Thursday 5:20-7:50
Location:	423 Benedum
Textbook:	John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson, "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach," 4th Edition, Elsevier, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2007
Prerequisite:	CoE/ECE 0142 or CoE/CS 1541

Grading

Midterm	10/15	30%
Final	12/10	30%
Project	Due: 12/18	40%

Tentative Schedule of Class

9/3	Introduction, trend
9/10	Performance Evaluation and Metrics
9/17	Instruction Level Parallelism
9/24	Canceled
10/1	Tomasulo Algorithm
10/8	Reorder Buffer
10/15	Midterm
10/22	Branch Prediction, Speculation and Recovery
10/29	Cache Basics
11/5	Cache Performance
11/12	Cache, Memory
11/19
11/26	Thanksgiving, No Class
12/3	Chip Multiprocessors and Advanced Research Topics
12/10	Final exam

Homework

• Homework 1 (assigned on 9/10): Problem: 1.1-1.3, Read 1.5, Problem 1.4, 1.12-1.14. (solutions)
• Homework 2 (assigned on 10/1): Problem: 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.6(a), 2.8, 2.9, 2.12(b,c,d) (solutions)
• Homework 3 (assigned on 10/29): Problem 2.11. Read Chapter 3.5 and 3.6
• Homework 4 (assigned on 11/19): Problem 5.2, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6
• Homework 5 (assigned on 11/19): Problem 5.10 -- 5.12

Project

This is a team project of two people. Poject description is here.

Project Demo Schedule

To be announced.

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