Discussion Section Notes

• Week 2: Performance, Instruction Sets, Arithmetic
• Week 3: Single Cycle CPU
• Week 4: Multiple Cycle CPU
• Midterm Review
• Week 6: Pipelining
• Week 7: Control Hazards, Branch Prediction
• Week 8: Branch Target Buffers, Return Address Stacks
• Week 9: Multiple Execution Units, VLIW vs. Superscalar, Caches
• Final Review

final review session notes

notes from the final review session are available here.

real world computer architecture

there's an interesting talk by one of intel's chief architects online here.

if you enjoyed the last few lectures, i think you'll find this talk entertaining. the first half, at least... you might be in over your head after that :)

review session notes

notes from today's review session are available here.

hello

hi. :) i'll keep copies of the notes i use for discussion on this web page.