ECE 512 (411): Computer Microarchitecture: Hardware and Software

[ Announcements | Slides | Homework | Papers ]

General Course Info

Design of high performance computer systems; instruction level concurrency; memory system implementation; pipelining, superscalar, and vector processing; compiler back-end code optimization; profile assisted code transformations; code generation and machine dependent code optimization; cache memory design for multiprocessors; synchronization implementation in multiprocessors; compatibility issues; technology factors; state-of-the-art commercial systems. Same as CSE 528. Prerequisite: ECE 511; CS 426 or equivalent.

Syllabus [ pdf ]
Final Exam [ pdf | ps ]

Announcements

5/4: The final will be posted Tues 5/10/05 @ 12:55pm and will be due at 4:30.

4/20: Class for the final presentations will be held in 1111 Seibel. Note that today (Wednesday) class will be in the regular place.

4/18: Final Presentation schedule is here.
3/28: Reports for FP due April 21st. Presentations start April 25th. Presentation dates will be announced the 18th. You should send Prof. Hwu your presentations (3) days before you have to give the presentation. PDF or PPT format is acceptable. We are going to run all of the presentations off of one laptop so that we do not have to deal with switching laptops because it drives me crazy :P.
3/3: Project Information Sheet Available: [ doc | pdf ]
2/8: Please post questions for Prof. Hwu on the webboard at my.ece. Feel free to use this webboard to interact with your classmates also. Drop me an email if you have any problems.
1/19: The 2002 Lecture Notes and Final are available here.

Slides

I am going to try to get the slides up after class as quickly as I can. I will be posting them in ps, pdf, and ppt format. Currently, the plan is to create the ps versions in boring greyscale w/out background and such for easy printing.

Topic	Lecture	Figures
Introduction	[ ppt \| ps \| pdf ]	-
Selected Slides from Georgia Tech Talk	[ ppt \| ps \| pdf ]	-
IFetch	[ ppt \| ps \| pdf ]	[ pdf \| ps ]
Issue Logic	[ ppt \| ps \| pdf ]	[ pdf \| ps ]
State Recovery	[ ppt \| ps \| pdf ]	-
VLIW Intro	[ ppt \| ps \| pdf ]	-
Compiler Overview and Scheduling	[ ppt \| ps \| pdf ]	-
Modulo Scheduling	[ ppt \| ps \| pdf ]	-
Hardware Support for Modulo Scheduling	[ ppt \| ps \| pdf ]	-
Control Speculation	[ ppt \| ps \| pdf ]	-
Data Speculation	[ ppt \| ps \| pdf ]	-
Predication	[ ppt \| ps \| pdf ]	-
DRAM	[ ppt \| ps \| pdf ]	-
DSP	[ ppt \| ps \| pdf ]	-
Summary	[ ppt \| ps \| pdf ]	-
Future	[ ppt \| ps \| pdf ]	-

Homework

Lecture 3: Prepare a short intro about yourself and what you want to learn about in this course.

Papers

There will be all kinds of readings this semester...so it may be time to head over to the eye doctor to pick up a new pair of reading glasses. Wen-mei plans on keeping us busy. See the papers here:

Reading List.

In case you would like to take a look at the old reading list (there are some good papers in here too...

Old Reading List.