EE 360N Handouts

Spring 2009

Other Course Related Handouts

• Alternative Approaches to Concurrency (posted - 05/04/09)

• Intro to Measurement Methodology (posted - 05/04/09)

• Intro to Multiprocessors (posted - 05/04/09)

• Fixed-point Arithmetic (posted - 05/04/09)

• Out-of-Order Processing (posted - 04/10/09)

• Vector Processing (posted - 04/10/09)

• Cache Memory (posted - 03/26/09)

• Virtual Memory (posted - 03/05/09)

• Physical Memory (posted - 03/03/09)

Note: In the 3rd page (Interleaving sheet 2), please read "RANK" instead of "ROW" at the bottom of the page where the address is divided into 4 partitions.

Administrative Handouts

• Student Information Sheet

LC-3b Handouts

• 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

• Spring 2009 Exam 1 Buzzwords – terms marked with an asterisk are covered in the Spring 2007 Exam 1 Buzzwords and Fall 2005 Exam 1 Buzzwords
• Spring 2009 Exam 2 Buzzwords – terms marked with an asterisk are covered in the Spring 2007 and Fall 2005 Buzzwords
• Spring 2009 Final Exam Buzzwords – terms marked with an asterisk are covered in the Spring 2007 and Fall 2005 Buzzwords

• Here are annotated buzzwords from 2 previous semesters, fall 2005 and spring 2007. You may use these as a reference in your studies.

  Fall 2005 and Spring 2007 Buzzwords

Exams

• Spring 2009 Exam 2 and Solution (posted - 05/04/09)

• Spring 2009 Exam 1 and Solution (posted - 03/23/09)

• Spring 2007 Exam 1 , Spring 2007 Exam 2 and Spring 2007 Final

• You can lookup other exams from previous year's websites, accessible from Dr Patt's home page. Spring 2007 Exam 1 is posted here because the version of the paper on Spring 2007 website has missing pages.