EE 360N Handouts

Spring 2007

Administrative Handouts

• Student Information Sheet

LC-3b Handouts

• Corrected LC-3b State Diagram
• Chapter 7, Assembly Language
• Appendix A, The LC-3b ISA

  Please correct the operation of the JSR/JSRR instruction to read:

  TEMP = PC†
  if (bit(11)==0)
      PC = BaseR;
  else
      PC = PC† + LSHF(SEXT(PCoffset11), 1);
  R7 = TEMP;
  
  * PC†: incremented PC 

• Appendix C, The Microarchitecture of LC-3b

Buzzwords

You may use these annotated buzzwords as a reference in your studies.

• Spring 2007 Exam 1 Buzzwords – terms marked with an asterisk are covered in the Fall 2005 Exam 1 Buzzwords
• Spring 2007 Exam 2 Buzzwords – terms marked with an asterisk are covered in the Fall 2005 Exam 2 Buzzwords
• Fall 2005 Final Exam Buzzwords

Exams

• Final Exam Solution (Posted: 05/15/07)
• Exam 2 Solution (Posted: 05/09/07)
• Exam 1 Solution
• Fall 2005 Final Exam and Fall 2005 Final Exam solution (Posted: 05/07/07)
• Fall 2005 Exam 2 and Fall 2005 Exam 2 solution
• Fall 2005 Exam 1 and Fall 2005 Exam 1 solution

Papers

This section lists papers referenced in class.

• Hillis, W. Daniel. 1988. The Connection Machine. Ph.D. dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (unfortunately this is a restricted non-printable version)
• Smith, J. E. 1981. A study of branch prediction strategies. In Proceedings of the 8th Annual Symposium on Computer Architecture, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• Yeh, T. and Patt, Y. N. 1991. Two-level adaptive training branch prediction. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual international Symposium on Microarchitecture, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
• Russell, R. M. 1978. The CRAY-1 computer system. Communications of the ACM, v.21 n.1.