ECS201A Fall 2008

Welcome to the ECS201A Web Page! This is a work in progress, so expect things to change continuously. This page is also not a replacement for the newsgroup - you will be expected to read the newsgroup frequently (ucd.class.ecs201a) to keep abreast of what is going on. Use the discussion newsgroup for questions (ucd.class.ecs201a.d). 

Midterm and Final grades:

• Final Grades

Administrative Information

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  • Instructor: Matthew Farrens

  • Class Information (Office Hours, etc.)

  • Syllabus (Class Outline)

  • Project Presentation Schedule

Homeworks and Projects

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  • Homework 1

  • Homework 2

  • Homework 3

  • Homework 4

  • Homework 5
     

  • Project Info and Ideas

  • Project Presentation Schedule

  • Fall '99 Midterm

  • Fall '00 Midterm

  • Fall '01 Midterm

  • Winter '03 Midterm 1

  • Winter '03 Midterm 2

  • Fall '03 Midterm 1

  • Fall '03 Midterm 2

  • Fall '04 Midterm 1

  • Fall '04 Midterm 2

  • Fall '05 Midterm 1

  • Fall '05 Midterm 2

  • Fall '06 Midterm 1

  • Fall '06 Midterm 2

  • Winter '08 Midterm 1

  • Winter '08 Midterm 2

Webcasts (from winter 2008)

• Class 1
• Class 2
• Class 3
• Class 4
• Class 5
• Class 6
• Class 7
• Class 8
• Class 9
• Class 10
• Class 11
• Class 12
• Class 13
• Class 14
• Class 15
• Class 16
• Class 17
• Class 18
• Class 19
• Class 20
• Class 21
• Class 22
• Class 23
• Class 24
• Class 24
• Class 25
• Class 26

Useful Architecture websites

• Computer Architecture Web Site Hosted by University of Wisconsin
• Microarchitecture web site
  

Useful Technical Handouts

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  • ECS293 web page (many useful links to stuff about gathering and managing data, using the library, etc.

  • Morgan Kaufman Web page for book

  • Research tools/traces/info (way outdated, not particularly useful)

• Postscript:

  • Lecture 2 notes (gzipped postscript)

  • Instruction set lecture notes (gzipped postscript)

  • Scoreboarding example from class

  • Tomasulo example 1 (pdf)

  • Tomasulo example 2 (pdf)

  • Tomasulo example using table

• Professor Chong's Notes:

  • Lecture 1: Introduction and Review -- Performance, Cost, DLX Instruction Set, Pipelining Slides (ppt, pdf)

  • Lecture 2: Caches, ILP, Loop Unrolling, Scoreboarding, Tomasulo, Branch Prediction (ppt, pdf)

  • Lecture 3: Trace Scheduling, Speculation (ppt, pdf)

  • Lecture 4: Memory Hierarchy (ppt, pdf)

  • Lecture 5: Vector Processors, DSPs (ppt, pdf)

  • Lecture 6: I/O (ppt, pdf)

  • Lecture 7: Interconnection Networks (ppt, pdf)

  • Lecture 8: Multiprocessors (ppt, pdf)

Local Papers of Interest (Plus others)

• G. Tyson and M. Farrens, "Evaluating the Effects of Predicated Execution on Branch Prediction" , International Journal of Parallel Processing, vol. 23, no. 1 (1996)

• M. Farrens, G. Tyson, and A. Pleszkun, "A Study of Single-Chip Processor/Cache Organizations for Large Numbers of Transistors" , Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Chicago, IL (April 18-21, 1994).

• G. Tyson, M. Farrens, "Code Scheduling for Multiple Instruction Stream Architectures" , International Journal of Parallel Processing, vol. 22, no. 3 (1994)

• Gary Tyson, Matthew Farrens, Kevin Rich, and Andrew Pleszkun, "Reducing the Branch Penalty of Mispredicted Short Forward Branches" , Computer Science Department Technical Report CSE-95-7, University of California at Davis, Davis, California (August 1995).

• M. Farrens, A. Park, R. Fanfelle, P. Ng and G. Tyson, "A Partitioned Translation Lookaside Buffer Approach to Reducing Address Bandwidth" , Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Queensland, Australia (May 19-21, 1992)

• Angeline Ebenezer, " Hardware Based Prefetching Methods ", Masters Project , University of California at Davis, Davis, California (December 1998)
   

   
   
   
   
   

Previous Micro Conferences

• Micro-40 in Chicago, Illinois; (December 2007)
• Micro-39 in Orlando, Florida; (December 2006)
• Micro-38 in Barcelona, Spain; (November 2005)
• Micro-37 in Portland, Oregon  (December 2004)
• Micro-36 in San Diego, CA (December 2003)
• Micro-35 in Istanbul, Turkey  (December 2002)
• Micro-34 in Austin, Texas (December 2001)
  
• Micro-33 in Monterey, California (December 2000)
  
• Micro-32 in Haifa, Israel (November 1999)
  
• Micro-31 in Dallas, Texas (November 1998)
  
• Micro-30 in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (December 1997)
  
• Micro-29 in Paris, France (November 1996)
  
• Micro-28 in Ann Arbor, Michigan (November 1995)
  
• Micro-27 in San Jose, California (November 1994)
  

Previous ISCA Conferences

• ISCA-34 in San Diego, CA (June 2007)
• ISCA-33 in Boston, MA (June 2006)
• ISCA-32 in Madison, WI (June 2005)
• ISCA-31 in Munich, Germany (June 2004)
  
• ISCA-30 in San Diego, CA (June 2003)
• ISCA-29 in Anchorage, Alaska (May 2002)
• ISCA-28 in Goteburg, Sweden (July 2001)
  
• ISCA-27 in Vancouver, British Columbia (June 2000)
  
• ISCA-26 in Atlanta, Georgia (May 1999) (link seems busted ...)
  
• ISCA-25 in Barcelona, Spain (June 1998)
  
• ISCA-24 In Denver, Colorado (June 1997)
  

Last Modified 12/17/03