11/12 | Final Notes |
30/11 | Service today and Wednesday from 17h-19h. If you need another time, contact us by email. |
29/11 | Test scores already available. |
05/10 | A copy of the slides used in the course is in my IC3 homedir (type cd / home / staff / rodolfo / mc722 and you will find the slides of the 6 chapters). |
03/09 | Note board (updated). |
03/08 | Classrooms: second CB04, fourth CB03 |
30/07 | The activities of the SECOMP will be considered as activities in the first week of class (there will be no class in the first week). |
30/07 | Don't miss the important dates of the Graduation calendar. |
An introduction to computer architecture and organization. Technology and historical perspective. Performance measures. Instruction set. Memory. Arithmetic and logic units. Basic design of a processor. Pipeline. Memory hierarchy: cache and virtual memory. I / O devices.
The recommended bibliography for the activities of this discipline is:
David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy. Computer Organization Design, The Hardware / Software Interface. Elsevier (Morgan Kaufman). Fifth Edition
Evidences: 70% of the semester grade (30% for P1 and 40% for P2)
Surprise tests: 30% of the semester grade (arithmetic average between tests). Notes> = 7,0 in tests can substitute specific questions in the test.
Exam: Arithmetic average between the semester grade and the exam.
Minimum grade for exam: 2,5
Any attempted fraud during the semester will be punished to the extent of my authority, including a zero score in the discipline.
Attendance after hours of all classes. If you need an alternative time, just book it by email or in person.
Data | Subject | Extras |
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03 / ago | SECOMP | |
05 / ago | SECOMP | |
10 / ago | Presentation | |
12 / ago | Chapter 1 - Introduction | |
17 / ago | Chapter 1 - Performance | |
19 / ago | Chapter 2 - Instruction Set - Format | |
24 / ago | 1 test | |
26 / ago | Chapter 2 - Set of Instructions - Functions, parameters and registers. | video |
31 / ago | Chapter 2 - Set of Instructions | video |
02 / set | Chapter 3 - Numerical representation and multiplication and division hardware | |
07 / set | Holiday. There will be no activities | |
09 / set | Chapter 3 - Floating point numbers and hardware operations | video |
14 / set | Chapter 4 - Datapath unicycle | video |
16 / set | Exercises | video |
21 / set | Chapter 4 - Datapath Unicycle | |
23 / set | Lesson of doubts | |
28 / set | Exam 1 | |
30 / set | Chapter 4 - Introduction to the Pipeline | video |
05 / out | Chapter 4 - Pipeline | video |
07 / out | Chapter 4 - Pipeline | video |
12 / out | Holiday. There will be no activities | |
14 / out | Chapter 4 - Pipeline (stall, hazard, multiple issue) | video |
19 / out | Chapter 5 - Memory Hierarchy | |
21 / out | Chapter 5 - Caches | video |
26 / out | Chapter 5 - Associativity of Caches | Test resolution e video |
28 / out | Holiday. There will be no activities | |
02 / Nov | Holiday. There will be no activities | |
04 / Nov | Chapter 5 - Cache Performance and Virtual Memory | |
09 / Nov | ||
11 / Nov | ||
16 / Nov | ||
18 / Nov | ||
23 / Nov | ||
25 / Nov | Exam 2 | |
30 / Nov | ||
09 / ten | Examination |