Winter 2013
Discussion section will be used as needed.
Instructor: Prof. A. Veidenbaum
Office Hours: immediately after each lecture or by appointment
Text: Microprocessor Architecture
Jean-Loup Baer
Prerequisites: CompSci152 or equivalent. CompSci143 is recommended
Major Topics:
1. Technology, performance, and the MIPS example
2. Pipelining
3. Memory hierarchy
4. Computer Arithmetic
5. Dynamic Instruction Scheduling and Out-of-order execution
6. Advanced Architectures
Workload:
1. 3 homeworks
2. final
Grading on the curve
Class material will be available on the course Web page:
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~alexv/250A