EE 460N Handouts

Spring 2013

Other Course Related Handouts

• Measurement Methodology (posted - 05/03/13)

• Sequential Consistency (posted - 05/03/13)

• Cache Coherence (posted - 05/03/13)
  Some sequential consistency notes included.

• Interconnection Networks (posted - 05/03/13)

• Multi Thread Parallelism (posted - 05/03/13)

• Single Thread Parallelism (posted - 04/14/13)

• Floating Point (posted - 04/05/13)

• Fixed Point (posted - 04/01/13)

• I/O (posted - 03/29/13)

• Cache Memory (posted - 03/19/13)
  Interrupts/Exceptions on final page.

• Virtual Memory (posted - 02/25/13)

• Physical Memory (posted - 02/21/13)

• Microarchitecture Characteristics (posted - 02/04/13)

• ISA Characteristics (posted - 02/04/13)

Administrative Handouts

• Student Information Sheet

LC-3b Handouts

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

Lecture Doc Cam Notes

• Lecture 2 - 01/16/13 (posted - 01/23/13)
  ISA
• Lecture 3 - 01/23/13 (posted - 01/23/13)
  ISA
• Lecture 4 - 01/28/13 (posted - 01/30/13)
  Pipelining
• Lecture 5 - 01/30/13 (posted - 02/04/13)
  Microarch
• Lecture 6 - 02/04/13 (posted - 02/04/13)
  Performance/Pipelining/HEP/Delayed Branch
• Lecture 7 - 02/06/13 (posted - 02/07/13)
  Conditional Branches
• Lecture 8 - 02/11/13 (posted - 02/13/13)
  Branch Prediction/Tomasulo/Data Flow
• Lecture 17 - 03/20/13 (posted - 03/26/13)
  I/O notes
• Lecture 18 - 03/25/13 (posted - 03/29/13)
  Lab 4; I/O notes
• Lecture 21 - 04/03/13 (posted - 04/05/13)
  Floating Point

Buzzwords

• Glossary of Buzzwords from Fall 2005 to Present (posted - 03/03/2013)
• Exam 1 Buzzwords (posted - 03/03/2013)
• Exam 2 Buzzwords (posted - 03/03/2013)

Exams

• Spring 2013 Exam 1 and Solution (posted - 04/01/13)

• Spring 2013 Exam 2 and Solution (updated - 05/09/13)

• You can look up past exams from previous year's websites, accessible from Dr. Patt's home page. Included below are exams not found on previous year's websites.

• Spring 2011 Final and Solution (posted - 05/09/13)