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Computer Architecture
- Instructor: Jim Huang (黃敬群)
<jserv.tw@gmail.com> - Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/system.software2022/
- Policy
- Follow the classes: CS 61C at UC Berkeley, CS152/252: Computer Architecture
- Course grading
- Quiz (30%), Homework (30%), Final/Term Project (40%)
- Schedule is tentative and subject to change!
Computer Architecture (Fall 2022)
- Week 1 (Sep 6): Introduction / Online via YouTube
- Course Introduction
- David Patterson: A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture: History, Challenges and Opportunities / video
- David Patterson: From Mainframe CPUs to Neural-Network TPUs and Open RISC-V / video
- Great Ideas in Computer Architecture, Intro / video
- Number Representation / video
- Floating Point / video
- C Memory Management / video
- Week 2 (Sep 13): Quiz + RISC-V / Online via YouTube
- Quiz1: C programming, bit-wise operations, number representation, floating-point / Solution
- Lab0: Web-based Emulators
- RISC-V Instructions
- Intro to Assembly Language and RISC-V / video
- Week 3 (Sep 20): RISC-V / Online via YouTube
- Week 4 (Sep 27): RISC-V / Online via YouTube
- Announcement:
- Next quiz is scheduled to Oct 4
- Code Review for Homework 1 on Oct 4
- NASA, Microchip, SiFive Announces Partnership for RISC-V Spaceflight Computing Platform
- ST, CAES team on octacore RISC-V space chip with selectable cores
- Apple M1 Pro/Max
- Calling Convention for RISC-V / video
- CALL = Compiling, Assembling, Linking, and Loading / video
- 2021-Quiz2 / solution
- Announcement:
- Week 5 (Oct 4): Quiz + Code Review (Room 4201 (1F) at (old) CSIE Building)
- Quiz2: RISC-V assembly and C programming / solution
- Code Review on Homework1: RISC-V Assembly and Instruction Pipeline
- Week 6 (Oct 11): RISC-V Instruction Format + GNU Toolchain / Online via YouTube
- Next week: digital logic
- Further reading FPGA design for Software Engineers
- Lab2: RISC-V RV32I[MACF] emulator with ELF support
- Assignment: Homework2: RISC-V Toolchain (Due: Oct 31)
- RISC-V Instruction Formats Part I / Part II / video
- Week 7 (Oct 18): Digital Systems / Online via YouTube
- Announcement: New quiz is scheduled on Oct 25
- Binary marble adding machine / video
- Yes, you can implement a few logic-like elements without electricity.
- Combinational Digital Logic / video
- Sequential Digital Logic / video
- 2020-Quiz3 / solution
- 2021-Quiz3 / solution
- Week 8 (Oct 25): Datapath and Control
- Announcement: Due to internal problems of HackMD (pictures were not shown), we would take new scoring method to eliminate the impact. Next week, we have an additional quiz dedicated to Combinational and Sequential Digital Logic.
- Quiz3: RISC-V programming and instruction encoding + Digital systems / solution
- RISC-V CPU Datapath, Control Intro / video
- Single-Cycle CPU Control / video
- Week 9 (Nov 1): Pipeline
- Announcement:
- Next quiz is scheduled to Dec 7
- Quiz4: Digital systems / solution
- video: Are Computers Still Getting Faster?
- MIT 6.004 L15: Introduction to Pipelining, L16: Processor Pipelining, L17: Implementing Pipelining
- slides: Introduction to Pipelining
- slides: Pipelined Processors
- note
- Announcement:
- Week 10 (Nov 8): Pipelined Processors
- Announcement:
- Next quiz is scheduled to Dec 7
- Homework3: SoftCPU is out.
- Next week, we will review all the assignments.
- 0 to ASIC
- L16: Processor Pipelining, L17: Implementing Pipelining, L18: Implementing Pipelined Processors / note
- slides: Pipelined Processors
- slides: Pipelined Processors Data and Control Hazards
- RISC-V 5-Stage Pipeline / Hazards / video
- Complex Pipelines, Out-of-Order Issue, Register Renaming
- Lab3: srv32 - RISCV RV32IM Soft CPU
- Assignment: Homework3: SoftCPU (Due: Dec 20, 2021)
- 2020 Quiz4
- Announcement:
- Week 11 (Nov 8): Quiz + Homework Review
- Week 12 (Nov 15): Cache + Virtual Memory
- Announcement: Quiz on Dec 21 - pipeline, cache and virtual memory
- Caches: Direct-mapped, set-associative / video
- Multi-level Caches, Cache Questions / video
- The golden age of ever-changing computer architecture
- Cerebras announced a system which connects multiple integrated circuits (commonly called “chips”) into a neural network with many connections in Aug 2021. It enables a single system to support AI models with more than 120 trillion parameters.
- Virtual Memory / video
- UCB: Virtual Memory / video
- 2020-Quiz5 / solution
- Week13 (Nov 22): Quiz + Virtual Memory + Operating System
- Announcement:
- Be aware of term projects.
- Next week, we will review all the assignments.
- Quiz6: pipelined processor + cache + virtual memory / solution
- Virtual Memory / video
- Lab4: Cache
- Operating Systems / video
- Term projects 2020
- Announcement:
- Week14 (Nov 29): Synchronization
- Announcement:
- Quiz on Jan 11
- Your grades will be delivered on Jan 21, 2022
- Check the listing of final/term projects
- Term projects 2021
- Synchronization / video
- Thread-Level Parallelism / video
- Let’s skip OpenMP part
- Announcement:
- Week15 (Dec 6): Operating System and RISC-V, cache coherence
- Announcement:
- Quiz7 on Jan 11
- Check the listing of final/term projects
- video: The Future of Operating Systems on RISC-V / transcript
- Multithreading Issues, Cache Coherency / video
- Let’s skip OpenMP part
- Freestanding RISC-V Programs
- Multithreaded Application Synchronization Part I
- Multithreaded Application Synchronization Part II
- RISC-V AMOSWAP instruction
- Advanced topics on Synchronization - 1
- Advanced topics on Synchronization - 2
- 2020 Quiz6
- Announcement:
- Week16 (Dec 13): I/O
- Quiz7 / solution
- I/O: Devices, Polling, Interrupts / video
- Traps/Interrupts/Exceptions
- Trap Handling in 5-Stage Pipeline
- Week17 (Dec 20): Modern Processors
- Week 18 (Dec 27): Modern Processors
