CDA3101: Computer Organization II

Course Information

Instructor: Zhi Wang
Email: zwang at cs dot fsu dot edu (preferred way to communicate)
Office: 172 LOVE Bldg
Phone: (850) 645-0476
Class Meeting: CAR 101; Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; 10:10AM - 11:00AM
Office Hour: Monday 1:30PM - 3:30PM, or by appointment
TA: Yuchuan Tao, Office hours: TBA
Required Textbook: David Patterson and John Hennessy Computer Organization and Design: The Hard- ware/Software Interface. Fifth Edition. (the MIPS edition) Elsevier, 5th edition, 2013

Schedules

Lecture/Reading Topic Slides
Lecture 1 Introduction slides 1
Lecture 2 Assembly slides 2
Lecture 3 Translation slides 3
Lecture 4 Logic Design slides 4
Lecture 5 Single-Cycle Datapath and Control slides 5
Lecture 6 Multi-Cycle Datapath and Control slides 6
Lecture 7 Pipelining slides 7
Lecture 8 Pipelining: Datapath and Control slides 8
Lecture 9 Pipeline Hazards slides 9
Lecture 10 Pipelining: Advanced ILP slides 10
Lecture 11 Memory Hierarchy slides 11
Lecture 12 Virtual Memory slides 12

The schedule is tentative and subject to change with announcements in class. Please check back at least once a weekly.

Homework

Homework will be posted on the canvas. Please check the canvas regularly.

Projects

Projects will be posted on the canvas. Please check the canvas regularly.

Useful Resources

Books: Kernighan, Ritchie, The C Programming Language (2nd Edition)
Maurice J. Bach, The Design of the UNIX Operating System (1st Edition)
Links: A 30 Year Retrospective on Dennard's MOSFET Scaling Paper
ANSI C Reference Sheet
SIMD Basics
MIPS-32 Reference Page
RISC-V: The Free and Open RISC Instruction Set Architecture
AnandTech
WikiChip

Syllabus

The course's syllabus can be found here.