ECS201A Fall 2016

Welcome to the ECS201A Web Page! This is a work in progress, so expect things to change continuously.

Final Results

• Here is all the data I had to work with. Your final grade was based on your top 6 quiz scores (I threw out the lowest score), your two midterms, and the final.
  To locate your score, toss out the first 3 digits and the last 2 digits of your SID. (So "123456789" becomes "4567")
  Final Class Grades

Administrative Information

• Instructor: Matthew Farrens
• Class Information (Office Hours, etc.)
• Syllabus (Class Outline)

Useful Technical Handouts

• Historical slides (pdf) The slides containing historical information (ENIAC, etc.)
• Background/Technology slides (pdf) The slides containing technology information (junctions, wafers, etc.)
• VLSI lectures Links to the on-line information that the VLSI lectures were built on


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

Useful Architecture websites

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

Fall 2016 Webcast

• Catalog of broadcasts

Fall 2012 Webcast

• Catalog of broadcasts

Past Exams/Quizzes

• Winter '12 Quiz 1


• Fall '15 Midterm 1
• Fall '15 Midterm 2
• Fall '15 Final


• Fall '14 Midterm 1
• Fall '14 Midterm 2
• Fall '14 Final


• Fall '13 Midterm 1
• Fall '13 Midterm 2
• Fall '13 Final


• Fall '12 Midterm 1
• Fall '12 Midterm 2
• Fall '12 Final


• Winter '12 Midterm 1
• Winter '12 Midterm 2
• Winter '12 Final


• Fall '10 Midterm 1
• Fall '10 Midterm 2
• Winter '10 Midterm 1
• Winter '10 Midterm 2
• Fall '08 Midterm 1
• Fall '08 Midterm 2
• Winter '08 Midterm 1
• Winter '08 Midterm 2
• Fall '06 Midterm 1
• Fall '06 Midterm 2
• Fall '05 Midterm 1
• Fall '05 Midterm 2
• Fall '04 Midterm 1
• Fall '04 Midterm 2
• Fall '03 Midterm 1
• Fall '03 Midterm 2
• Winter '03 Midterm 1
• Winter '03 Midterm 2
• Fall '01 Midterm
• Fall '00 Midterm
• Fall '99 Midterm

Webcasts (from fall 2010)

• 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

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

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)