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Advanced Computer
Architecture-CS501
Lecture
Handouts
Computer
Architecture
Lecture
No. 11
Reading
Material
Vincent
P. Heuring&Harry F. Jordan
Chapter
3
Computer
Systems Design and Architecture
3.3,
3.4
Summary
5) A CISC
microprocessor:The Motorola
MC68000
6) A RISC
Architecture:The SPARC
Material
of this Lecture is included in
the above-mentioned sections of Chapter
3.
Page
149
Last
Modified: 01-Nov-06
Table of Contents:
- Computer Architecture, Organization and Design
- Foundations of Computer Architecture, RISC and CISC
- Measures of Performance SRC Features and Instruction Formats
- ISA, Instruction Formats, Coding and Hand Assembly
- Reverse Assembly, SRC in the form of RTL
- RTL to Describe the SRC, Register Transfer using Digital Logic Circuits
- Thinking Process for ISA Design
- Introduction to the ISA of the FALCON-A and Examples
- Behavioral Register Transfer Language for FALCON-A, The EAGLE
- The FALCON-E, Instruction Set Architecture Comparison
- CISC microprocessor:The Motorola MC68000, RISC Architecture:The SPARC
- Design Process, Uni-Bus implementation for the SRC, Structural RTL for the SRC instructions
- Structural RTL Description of the SRC and FALCON-A
- External FALCON-A CPU Interface
- Logic Design for the Uni-bus SRC, Control Signals Generation in SRC
- Control Unit, 2-Bus Implementation of the SRC Data Path
- 3-bus implementation for the SRC, Machine Exceptions, Reset
- SRC Exception Processing Mechanism, Pipelining, Pipeline Design
- Adapting SRC instructions for Pipelined, Control Signals
- SRC, RTL, Data Dependence Distance, Forwarding, Compiler Solution to Hazards
- Data Forwarding Hardware, Superscalar, VLIW Architecture
- Microprogramming, General Microcoded Controller, Horizontal and Vertical Schemes
- I/O Subsystems, Components, Memory Mapped vs Isolated, Serial and Parallel Transfers
- Designing Parallel Input Output Ports, SAD, NUXI, Address Decoder , Delay Interval
- Designing a Parallel Input Port, Memory Mapped Input Output Ports, wrap around, Data Bus Multiplexing
- Programmed Input Output for FALCON-A and SRC
- Programmed Input Output Driver for SRC, Input Output
- Comparison of Interrupt driven Input Output and Polling
- Preparing source files for FALSIM, FALCON-A assembly language techniques
- Nested Interrupts, Interrupt Mask, DMA
- Direct Memory Access - DMA
- Semiconductor Memory vs Hard Disk, Mechanical Delays and Flash Memory
- Hard Drive Technologies
- Arithmetic Logic Shift Unit - ALSU, Radix Conversion, Fixed Point Numbers
- Overflow, Implementations of the adder, Unsigned and Signed Multiplication
- NxN Crossbar Design for Barrel Rotator, IEEE Floating-Point, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division
- CPU to Memory Interface, Static RAM, One two Dimensional Memory Cells, Matrix and Tree Decoders
- Memory Modules, Read Only Memory, ROM, Cache
- Cache Organization and Functions, Cache Controller Logic, Cache Strategies
- Virtual Memory Organization
- DRAM, Pipelining, Pre-charging and Parallelism, Hit Rate and Miss Rate, Access Time, Cache
- Performance of I/O Subsystems, Server Utilization, Asynchronous I/O and operating system
- Difference between distributed computing and computer networks
- Physical Media, Shared Medium, Switched Medium, Network Topologies, Seven-layer OSI Model