Master of Science AUL Sin El Fil Campus, Summer 2012
Links to High Performance Computer Architecture lectures
Lectures
What you have to study for the final exam:
Performance & Amdahl's law (HPCA lecture1):
Slide 44, 61, 62, 69, 70, 71, 73, 76 - 82
Processor design (HPCA single and multicycle datapaths and controls):
Slide 32 - 43, 85 - 89, 91, 92, 95, 105, 107, 109, 111, 116 - 137
Pipelining (HPCA Pipelining & hazards):
Slide 7-11, 16 - 20, 24 - 26, 29, 30, 32 - 34
I posted solutions for the last lecture exercises found in "Revision exercises of the last lecture.pdf"
The exercises that you need to solve for the final exam:
Assignment 1
Assignment 3 including exercises on multicycle datapath:
Single-cycle: Exercise2 (question1, ..., q6), Exercise4, Exercise5, Exercise7(q1, q2, q3), Exercise8 with its solution (one slide after).
Read slide number 43- 47 (lw, R-type, sw, beq, control signal table).
Multi-cycle: Exercise 13, Exercise 15
Read slide 60 (finite state machine for the control) and slide 65 (multi-cycle datapath:summary).
The most important point is to solve the revision exercises of the last lecture.
For pipelining: read very well the hpca pipelining & hazards. The exercises about pipelining are found in slide 32 and those solved during the last lecture.
PS: Lecture materials and references will be attached at the bottom of the page.