Program Overview

Computer Architecture – Fall 2021

Course Information

Description

Computer architecture is the science and art of selecting and interconnecting hardware components to create a computer that meets functional, performance, and cost goals. This course introduces the basic hardware structure of a modern programmable computer, including the basic laws underlying performance evaluation.

Objective

We will learn, for example, how to design the control and data path hardware for a MIPS-like processor, how to make machine instructions execute simultaneously through pipelining and simple superscalar execution, and how to design fast memory and storage systems.

Content

The principles presented in the lecture are reinforced in the laboratory through the design and simulation of a register transfer (RT) implementation of a MIPS-like pipelined processor in System Verilog. In addition, we will develop a cycle-accurate simulator of this processor in C, and we will use this simulator to explore processor design options.

Prerequisites

• Digitaltechnik

Lecture Schedule and Location

• Thursday, 13:00-16:00, in HG D16.2
• Friday, 13:00-16:00, in HG D16.2

Staff Information

Teaching Assistants

• Onur Mutlu
• Juan Gomez Luna
• Mohammad Sadrosadati
• Jisung Park
• Mohammed Alser
• Nour Almadhoun Alserr
• Rahul Bera
• João Dinis Ferreira
• Geraldo Francisco De Oliveira Junior
• Can Firtina
• Hasan Hassan
• Konstantinos Kanellopoulos
• Nika Mansouri Ghiasi
• Haiyu Mao
• Lois Orosa Nogueira
• Gagandeep Singh
• Abdullah Giray Yaglikci
• Behzad Salami
• Rakesh Nadig
• Haocong Luo
• Roknoddin Azizi Note: The original content had some missing information (e.g., email addresses, office hours) which has been preserved as is in the extraction process to maintain the integrity of the provided details.