ECEC 355 Computer Structures Lectures

This list is tentative and may be modified at the instructor's discretion. Lectures are derived by the instructor, from the text, and from outside sources.

Section 501/701	Section 601	Lecture slides	Lecture Notes	Notes
June 23, 2009	June 22/24, 2009	Course Overview Implementation of a Simple Computer
June 30, 2009	June 29/July 1, 2009	Introduction to the MIPS Instruction Set Branching and Procedures	MIPS ISA Data Transfer Instructions Instruction Representation Addressing Modes SPIM Manual SPIM Appendix	Chapter 2: Instruction sets and addressing modes
July 7, 2009	July 6/8, 2009	Recursive Functions, Arrays and Strings Arrays, Pointers, and Linked Lists Alternative Instruction Sets Introduction to Computer Arithmetic		Chapter 3: Computer arithmetic
July 14, 2009	July 13/15, 2009	Design of the ALU Integer Multiplication and Division A Simple Implementation of MIPS	Adder Design MIPS Datapath	Chapter 4: The Processor
July 21, 2009	July 20/22, 2009	No Class: Work on MIPS review exercises to be discussed in class		No class
July 28, 2009	July 27/29, 2009	MIPS exercise review and midterm review Multicycle Implementation of MIPS Special Topic: The PC Boot Process (and video of my talk)	Lecture Notes CPU Performance Equation MIPS and MFLOPS Amdahl's Law	Last week to withdraw
August 4, 2009	August 3/5, 2009	Midterm exam: take home Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking Overview of Pipelining Pipelined Datapath and Control	Pipelining	Midterm
August 11, 2009	August 10/12, 2009	Dealing with Pipeline Hazards Advanced Pipelining Techniques	Pipeline Hazards
August 18, 2009	August 17/19, 2009	Exploiting Memory Hierarchy: Cache Memory Measuring Cache Performance	Cache Design	Chapter 5: The Memory System
August 25, 2009	August 24/26, 2009	Exploiting Memory Hierarchy: Virtual Memory
N/A	August 31, 2009	Exam Review		Section 601 Only
Week of September 1, 2009	Week of September 1, 2009	Section 501: Final Exam in our usual classroom date and time. Section 601: Final Exam in TBA at TBA		Finals week

Last edited: 09/19/2005 anatole@cs.drexel.edu