Lecture slides, recommended readings and supplementary materials

• Week 1, Jan. 7
  • Lectures:
    • Lecture 1: [pdf] Introduction, motivation and work plan
    • Lecture 2: [pdf] CPU Performance and Profiling
  • Expand the scope:
    • Code samples: copymatrix1.c, copymatrix2.c
      lower1.c, lower2.c
      
    • perf user guide
    • perf installation guide
    • perf examples (tgz archive)
• Week 2, Jan. 14
  • Lectures:
    • Lecture 3.1: [pdf] Memory hierarchy: what and why?
    • Lecture 3.2: [pdf] Memory hierarchy: how?
  • Expand the scope:
    • Memory Hierarchy Models
    • History of Memory Models
• Week 3, Jan. 21
  • Lectures:
    • Lecture 4.1: [pdf] MIPS Introduction
    • Assignment 1 has been posted and Quiz 1 is held on Thursday.
  • Expand the scope:
    • SPIM tutoria. l
    • SPIM: A MIPS simulator.
    • Using Xspim.
• Week 4, Jan. 28
  • Lectures:
    • Lecture 4.2: [pdf] MIPS Instruction Representation
    • Lecture 4.3: [pdf] MIPS Procedures and Compilation
  • Expand the scope:
    • MIPS Calling Convention
    • MIPS Register-Usage Conventions
    • MIPS architecture
• Week 5, Feb. 6
  • Lectures:
    • Lecture 5.1: [pdf] Synchronous Digital Systems.
    • Lecture 5.2: [pdf] State Circuits: Circuits that Remember.
  • Expand the scope:
    • Another MIPS tutorials
    • And another MIPS tutorial including system calls
    • MIPS Instruction cheat sheet
    • MIPS system calls
    • MIPS input program (leaf example) for spim
    • MIPS input program (factorial) for spim
    • MIPS input program (bubble sort) for spim
• Week 6, Feb. 13
  • Lectures:
    • Lecture 5.3: [pdf] Representations of Combinational Logic Circuits.
    • Lecture 5.4: [pdf] Combinational Logic Blocks.
    • Lecture 5.5: [pdf] Single-Cycle CPU Datapath Design
  • Expand the scope:
    • Streaming SIMD Extension (SSE)
• Week 7, Feb. 27
  • Lectures:
    • Lecture 5.6: [pdf] Single-Cycle CPU: Datapath Control (Part 1).
    • Lecture 5.7: [pdf] Single-Cycle CPU: Datapath Control (Part 2).
  • Expand the scope:
• Week 8, March. 6
  • Lectures:
    • Lecture 6.1: [pdf] Fundamentals of Instructional Level Parallelism.
    • Lecture 6.2: [pdf] Instructional Level Parallelism: Hazards and Resolutions.
    • Lecture 6.3: [pdf] Instructional Level Parallelism: Advanced Techniques.
  • Expand the scope:
    • Lecture 6.2 exercies: [pdf]
    • XScale micro-architecture: h [wkipedia]
    • ARM micro-architecture h [wkipedia]
• Weeks 9 & 10, March 13
  • Lectures:
    • Lecture 7.1: [pdf] Multicore: Basics and Key Issues.
    • Lecture 7.2: [pdf] Multicore TLP (1).
    • Multicore programming in CilkPlus: [pdf]
  • Expand the scope:
    • Cilk Wikipedia page
    • Cilk Hub (includes downloading page)
    • CilkPlus tutorial
    • CilkPlus documentation
    • Cooperative multitasking
    • Preemption (computing)
    • Processor UltraSPARC T1
• Weeks 11 & 12, March 27
  • Lectures:
    • Lecture 8.1: [pdf] An Overview of General Purpose Graphics Processing Units.
    • Lecture 8.2: [pdf] Efficient Usage of GPUs Memory Hierrachy: Lesson Learning through Matrix Transposition.
  • Expand the scope:
    • GPU (Wikipedia page)
    • List of Nvidia graphics processing units (Wikipedia page)
    • CUDA programming guide

Homework and Schedule

Note: Exercises and assignments will be posted via OWL.

Tentative Assignment, Quiz and Test Schedule

Teaching Crew and Hours

• Instructor
  Prof. Marc Moreno-Maza
  email: moreno@csd.uwo.ca
  
  Lecture hours: 4:30-5:30pm on Tuesdays, 3:30-5:30pm on Thursdays
  Lecture room: MC 105B
  
  Office: Middlesex College, Room 327
  Office hours: 13:30-15:20pm on Tuesdays


• Teaching Assistants
  

  Name	Office/Tutorial Hours	Room
  Alexader Brandt	Thursdays,13:30 to 14:30	MC4A
  Davood Mohajerani	Tuesdays, 17:30 to 18:30	MC4A
  Mingda Sun	Wednesdays, 13:30 to 14:30	MC4A

Feedback

A course forum and feedback polls will be available at OWL.

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