ECE 460N Handouts

Evolving Textbook for ECE460N (Perhaps the start, finally, of a textbook for 460N!)

• Chapter 1, Introduction (posted - 03/10/25)
• Chapter 2, ISA (posted - 03/10/25)
• Chapter 6, Physical Memory (posted - 03/17/25)
• Chapter 7, Virtual Memory (posted - 04/14/25)

Powerpoint Presentations

• Introduction, available as ppt or slides (posted - 02/10/25)
• ISA, available as ppt or pdf (posted - 03/10/25)
• Microarchitecture, available as ppt or pdf (posted - 08/12/24)
• Because of Pipelines, available as ppt or pdf (posted - 08/12/24)
• Process, available as ppt or pdf (posted - 08/12/24)
• Physical Memory, available as or ppt or slides (updated - 08/12/24)
• Virtual Memory, available as ppt or pdf (updated - 03/31/25)
• Cache, availble as ppt or pdf (posted - 08/12/24)
• IO, available as ppt or pdf (posted - 08/12/24)
• Fixed Point Arithmetic, available as ppt or pdf (updated - 08/12/24)
• Floating Point Arithmetic, available as ppt or pdf (posted - 08/12/24)
• Single Thread Parallelism, available as ppt or pdf (posted - 08/12/24)
• Multi-Thread Parallelism, available as ppt or pdf (posted - 08/12/24)
• Pot Pourri, available as ppt or pdf (posted - 08/12/24)

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

Other Handouts

• Charles Leiserson, Neil Thompson, Joel Emer, Bradley Kuszmaul, Butler Lampson, Daniel Sanchez, Tao Schard There’s plenty of room at the Top: What will drive computer performance after Moore’s law? Science, Vol 368, No. 6495

Buzzwords

• Glossary of Buzzwords from Fall 2005 to Present

Exams

• Spring 2025 Exam 1 and solutions (posted - 02/27/25)

• Spring 2025 Exam 2 and solutions (posted - 04/17/25)

Old Exams

• Fall 2024 Exam 1 and solutions (posted - 01/27/25)

• Fall 2024 Exam 2 and solutions (posted - 01/27/25)

• Fall 2024 Final Exam and solutions (posted - 01/27/25)

• Spring 2023 Exam 1 and solutions (posted - 08/12/24)

• Spring 2023 Exam 2 and solutions (posted - 08/12/24)

• Fall 2022 Exam 1 and solutions (posted - 08/12/24)

• Fall 2022 Exam 2 and solutions (posted - 08/12/24)

• Fall 2022 Final Exam and solutions (posted - 08/12/24)

• Spring 2021 Exam 1 and Solution (posted - 08/12/24)

• Spring 2021 Exam 2 and Solution (posted - 08/12/24)

• Spring 2021 Final Exam and Solution (posted - 08/12/24)

• Fall 2020 Exam 1 and Solution (posted - 08/12/24)

• Fall 2020 Exam 2 and Solution (posted - 08/12/24)

• Fall 2020 Final Exam and Solution (posted - 08/12/24)

• Spring 2019 Exam1 and Solution (posted - 08/12/24)

• Spring 2019 Exam2 and Solution (posted - 08/12/24)

• Spring 2019 Final and Solution (posted - 08/12/24)

• Fall 2018 Exam 1 and Solution (posted - 08/12/24)

• Fall 2018 Exam 2 and Solution (posted - 08/12/24)

• Fall 2018 Final and Solution (posted - 08/12/24)

• Spring 2017 Exam 1 and Solution (posted - 08/12/24)

• Spring 2017 Exam 2 and Solution (posted - 08/12/24)

• Spring 2017 Final and Solution (posted - 08/12/24)

• Fall 2016 Exam 1 and Solution (posted - 08/12/24)

• Fall 2016 Exam 2 and Solution (posted - 08/12/24)

• Fall 2016 Final and Solution (posted - 08/12/24)

• Spring 2015 Exam 1 and Solution (posted - 08/12/24)

• Spring 2015 Exam 2 and Solution (posted - 08/12/24)

• Spring 2015 Final and Solution (posted - 08/12/24)

• Fall 2014 Exam 1 and Solution (posted - 08/12/24)

• Fall 2014 Exam 2 and Solution (posted - 08/12/24)

• Fall 2014 Final Exam and Solution (posted - 08/12/24)

• Spring 2013 Exam 1 and Solution (posted - 08/12/24)

• Spring 2013 Exam 2 and Solution (posted - 08/12/24)

• Spring 2011 Final and Solution (posted - 08/12/24)