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Computer Architecture
- Instructor: Jim Huang (黃敬群)
<jserv.tw@gmail.com> - Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/system.software2021/
- Policy
- Follow the classes: CS 61C at UC Berkeley, CS152/252: Computer Architecture
- Course grading
- Quiz (20%), Homework (40%), Final Project (40%)
- Schedule is tentative and subject to change!
Computer Architecture (Fall 2021)
- Week 1 (Sep 28): Introduction
- 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
- Floating Point
- C Memory Management / video
- Week 2 (Oct 5): Quiz + RISC-V
- Quiz1: C programming, bit-wise operations, number representation, floating-point / Solution
- Lab0: Web-based Emulators
- Introduction to RISC-V Assembly language : Arithmetic
- Intro to Assembly Language and RISC-V / video
- Week 3 (Oct 12): RISC-V
- Week 4 (Oct 19): RISC-V
- Announcement:
- Next quiz is scheduled to Oct 26
- Code Review for Homework 1 on Oct 26
- We might be in a physical classroom next week. Please check the latest announcement via email.
- Apple M1 Pro/Max
- More RISC-V Functions / video
- Compiler, Assembler, Linker, Loader / video
- 2020-Quiz2
- Announcement:
- Week 5 (Oct 26): 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 (Nov 2): RISC-V Instruction Format + GNU Toolchain + Code
Review (Room 4201 (1F) at (old) CSIE Building)
- Next week: digital logic
- Code Review on Homework1: RISC-V Assembly and Instruction Pipeline
- Lab2: RISC-V RV32I[MA] emulator with ELF support
- Assignment: Homework2: RISC-V Toolchain (Due: Nov 15)
- Further reading FPGA design for Software Engineers
- RISC-V Instruction Formats / video
- Week 7 (Nov 9): Digital Systems / The class is online: https://youtu.be/gDR7W7cbB7U
- nand2tetris / TED Talk
- Next generation of rv32emu: sysprog21/rv32emu-next
- Combinational Digital Logic / video
- Sequential Digital Logic / video
- 2020-Quiz3
- Week 8 (Nov 16): Datapath
- Quiz3: RISC-V programming and instruction encoding + Digital systems / solution
- Lab3: Reindeer - RISCV RV32I[M] Soft CPU
- RISC-V CPU Datapath, Control Intro / video
- Assignment: Homework3: SoftCPU (Due: ?)
- Week 9 (Nov 23): Control, Pipeline
- Collaborative notes
- Announcement: quiz4 on Nov17: CPU datapath, control, pipeline
- video: Are Computers Still Getting Faster?
- Single-Cycle CPU Control / video
- MIT 6.004 L15: Introduction to Pipelining, L16: Processor Pipelining, L17: Implementing Pipelining
- Week 10 (Nov 30): Pipelined Processors
- Week 11 (Dec 7): Quiz + Homework Review
- Week 12 (Dec 14): Cache + Virtual Memory
- Announcement: Quiz on Dec 1 - 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
- Virtual Memory / video
- Week13 (Dec 21): Quiz + Virtual Memory
- Quiz5
- Virtual Memory / video
- Term projects
2019
- Implement RISC-V Compressed Instruction Set on rv32emu
- Implement RISC-V Compressed Instruction Set for Reindeer, based on pull request RV32C support. must be validated on Step CYC10 FPGA board.
- Contribute to Ripes: pick up pending issues, work on them, and finally send pull request(s).
- Prepare practical tutorials for VSRTL, thus people can follow the instructions for implementing minimal RISC-V core such as minrv32.
- Analyze spu32 with Yosys open synthesis suite. Explain how it works and validate it.
- Analyze VexRiscv. Explain how it works and validate it.
- Modify Reindeer to allow non-trial interactive games on Step CYC10 FPGA board, based on Reindeer_Step and Zephyr RTOS.
- Lab4: Cache
- Week14 (Dec 28): Synchronization
- Announcement: Quiz on Dec 22
- Assignment: Homework4: Cache (Due: ?)
- Operating Systems / video
- Synchronization / video
- Thread-Level Parallelism / video
- Week15 (Jan 4): Operating System and RISC-V
- Week16 (Jan 11): I/O, cache coherence
- Term projects 2020
- Quiz6
- I/O:
Devices, Polling, Interrupts / video
- Traps/Interrupts/Exceptions
- Trap Handling in 5-Stage Pipeline
- Multithreading Issues, Cache Coherency / video
- Cache
Coherence / video
- Modern microprocessors usually have 2 to 8 cores where each core has a private cache for performance
- Modified/Shared/Invalid (MSI) Protocol, MESI: An Enhanced MSI protocol to increased performance for private read-write data
- Week17 (Jan 18): Modern Processors
