ECS154B Spring 2014

Administrative Information

• Instructor: Matthew Farrens
• Class Information (Office Hours, etc.)
• Syllabus (Class Outline)
  
  
• Piazza signup link
• Link to Previous Quarter (2013) Lectures (Videos):
• Link to Previous Quarter (2012) Discussions (Videos)
• Frequently Asked Questions

Lab and Hw grades:

• Final Grades, including all scores as reported to me

Homeworks, Exams, and Notes

• background lecture Background/overview slides


• VLSI lecture VLSI lecture slides


• VLSI references Links to the on-line information that the VLSI lectures were built on


• Detailed Generic CPU description (pdf)
• single cycle Mips slides (pdf)
• Multicycle Mips slides (pdf)
• Microcode slides (pdf)
• Microcode chapter from book (pdf)
• First set of pipelining slides (pdf)
• Pipelining slides including hazards (pdf)
• Interrupts in Mips slides (pdf)
• Code scheduling example from class (text)


• Multicycle Mips slides (previous years, other places) (pdf)
• Multicycle Mips slides (previous years, other places) (pdf)
• Multicycle Mips slides (previous years, other places) (pdf)
• Pipelining lecture 1 (pdf)
• Pipelining lecture 2 (pdf)
• Advanced Caching topics (5/22, 27)


• Midterm review
• Final review


• Midterm Spring '09 (pdf)
• Midterm Spring '10 (pdf)
• Midterm Winter '11 (pdf)
• Midterm Spring '11 (pdf)
• Midterm Winter '12 (pdf)
• Midterm Spring '12 (pdf)
• Midterm Winter '13 (pdf)
• Midterm Spring '13 (pdf)
• Midterm Winter '14 (pdf)


• Final Spring '09 (pdf)
• Final Spring '10 (pdf)
• Final Winter '11 (pdf)
• Final Spring '11 (pdf)
• Final Winter '12 (pdf)
• Final Spring '12 (pdf)
• Final Winter '13 (pdf)
• Final Spring '13 (pdf)
• Final Winter '14 (pdf)

Useful Technical Information

• Logisim Available here
• Logisim Tutorial (pdf) available here