Topics

• Performance measures
• MIPS R2000 instruction set & assembly language
• ARMv8 versus MIP R2000
• Logic design
• Arithmetic for computers
• CPU design
• Memory hierarchy

Textbook

• The textbook for this course is "Computer Organization and Design, Patterson and Hennessy (3rd, 4th or 5th edition)". 
• It's available electronically at the library.
• For the (new) ARM section, we will use "Computer Organization and Design - The Hardware/Software Interface (Arm® Edition), Patterson and Hennessy". 
• It's available electronically at the library.

Podcast

Lecture Notes / Slides

• Slides: Lecture 1, History of computing
• Course notes: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 2.5 (ARM), Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5.

SPIM Simulator

You can download a PC version or a Unix version from here. Ubuntu users can type "sudo apt-get install spim". In addition, UC Berkeley maintains a Web page for a MAC OSX version.

You can find a nice tutorial for the SPIM simulator here.

Note to Windows 7 users: If SPIM complains about a missing "exceptions.s", you can fix it by going to Simulator->Settings, and changing the path from "C:\Program Files\PCSpim\exceptions.s" to "C:\Program Files (x86)\PCSpim\exceptions.s".

ARM Simulator

You can download from the below link. Installation on windows is straightforward, however sometimes be tricky on Mac or Linux. You may rely on the lab machines if you have Mac or Linux as your personal machine.

http://webhome.cs.uvic.ca/~nigelh/ARMSim-V2.1/index.html

Class Policy

Review class policies (for labs, quizzes, programming project e.t.c.) here.