ECE 7650: Advanced Computer Architecture

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ECE 7650 Advanced Computer Architecture

• Introduction
• Course Information and Outline

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Instructor

• Prof. Ken Ferens, Ph.D., P.Eng.
• Room E1 544
• Telephone [phone]
• Email ferens_at_ee.umanitoba.ca

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Lecture Schedule

• 3 Hours per week
• 600 900 P.M Thursday
• Room E2 - 393

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Required Textbook

• A. Clements, Principles of Computer Hardware,
  Fourth Edition, Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Supplemental Textbooks

• J. Hennessy and D. Patterson, Computer
  Architecture A Quantitative Approach (Third
  Edition), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2003.

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Evaluation
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Outline

• Reading Assignment for Review
• Introduction to Computer Hardware
• Gates, Circuits, and Combinational Logic
• Sequential Logic

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Outline

• Computer Arithmetic
• Error Detecting and Correcting Codes
• Data Compressing Codes
• Floating point Numbers

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Outline

• The Instruction Set Architecture
• Assembly Language Programming
• Structure of the CPU
• Random Logic Control Unit
• Microprogrammed Control Units

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Outline

• Accelerating Performance
• RISC Architecture and pipelining
• Pipelining Hazards
• Data Dependencies
• Reducing the Branch Penalty
• Implementing Pipelining
• Cache Memory
• Effects of Cache Memory on Computer Performance
• Cache organization
• Considerations in Cache Design
• Multiprocessor Systems
• Topics in multiprocessor Systems
• Multiprocessor Organization
• MIMD Architectures

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Outline

• Processor Architectures
• M68HC12
• The ARM
• Buses and Input/Output Mechanisms

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Suggested Project Ideas

• Set of Mini-projects using the
• HCS12.
• 68k Coldfire.
• Zigbee transciever.
• Implement a basic 8-bit mP on an FPGA
• Two CMC FPGA IDE workstations available.

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Suggested Project Ideas

• Computer animation (Flash) Demonstarting
• Pipelining
• Cache systems
• Multiprocessor systems
• FPGA implementation
• Demonstrating and comparing pipelining, cache
  systems, or multiprocessor systems with basic
  system
• Showing the performance benefits.