Instructor: Prof. A. Veidenbaum
Office Hours: immediately after each lecture or by appointment
Textbook: Microprocessor Architecture
Jean-Loup Baer
Prerequisites: CompSci152 or equivalent. CompSci143 or equivalent is recommended
Major Topics:
1. Impact of technology, ISA on architecture
2. Processor performance
3. Review of pipelining
4. Basic memory hierarchy
5. ILP and superscalar processors
6. Dynamic Instruction Scheduling and Out-of-order execution
7. Advanced Memory Hierarchy
8. Vector, multi-threaded, and multiprocessor systems
Workload:
1. 3 homeworks (not graded)
2. two midterms
Grading:
class participation - 5%
two midterms - 45 and 50%
Graded on a curve
Class material will be available on the course Web page:
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~alexv/250A