ECE 438: Computer Design

Tuesday/Thursday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM, EECE Room 210

Instructor: Dr. David A. Bader

Course Assistant: Vikas Chaudhary (vikas@unm.edu)

Office: EECE 230B

Office Hours: Tuesday/Thursday 10:00 - 10:45 AM, or by appointment.

Textbook: Patterson and Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, Second edition, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1997.

• Join the class mailing list at http://www.ece.unm.edu/mailman/listinfo/ece438/
• Syllabus
• Homework Set #1, due 9 Sept.
• SPEC CPU2000: Measuring CPU Performance in the New Millenium J.L. Henning, IEEE Computer, July 2000.
• Homework Set #2, due 23 Sept.
• Homework Set #3, due 14 Oct.
• Homework Set #4, due 28 Oct.
• Homework Set #5, due 7 Nov.
• Homework Set #6, due 4 Dec.
  • Dinero IV Trace-Based cache simulator
  • dineroIV binary for Solaris
  • dineroIV manual page
  • gcc trace (a C compiler)
  • spice trace (a circuit simulator)
  • tex trace (a document formatter)
• Read: William J. Dally, Patrick Hanrahan, Mattan Erez, Timothy J. Knight, Francois Labonte, Jung-Ho Ahn, Nuwan Jayasena, Ujval J. Kapasi, Abhishek Das, Jayanth Gummanraju, and Ian Buck. Merrimac: Supercomputing with Streams, Supercomputing 2003, Phoenix, AZ, November 2003.

Useful Links:

• Purchase an inexpensive used copy of the textbook!
• COD2e Companion Site
• SPIM: MIPS Simulator (use version 6.5)
• Robert L. Britton, MIPS Assembly Language Programming, Prentice-Hall, 2004.
• Lecture Notes
  • Berkeley
  • UIUC
  • Stanford
  • UPenn
• Runnable MIPS Code
• MIPS-Based Applications
• Rambus slides