Welcome to ECE 5402/ CSE 5302/ CSE 4302 - Computer Architecture

Course Syllabus

Instructor

• Professor Omer Khan
• Office: ITEB 447
• Email: khan@uconn.edu
• Office Hours: Online via WebEx (make appointment via email)

TA

• Brandon D'Agostino
• Email: bdag@uconn.edu
• Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday, 3:30-5:30pm (by appointment). You can signup using Google Calendar
• Office hour appointments are assumed to be in-person in ITE 114 by default. Email the TA ahead of time if you prefer to meet via WebEx

Announcements

• Final Exam (only CSE 4302) is scheduled on December 13, 2021 (BUSN 226) from 8AM - 10AM. It will cover all lectures.
• Exam 3 is scheduled in-class on December 3 , 2021. It will cover lectures 9 through 12 (inclusive).
• Exam 2 is scheduled in-class on November 5 , 2021. It will cover lectures 5 through 8 (inclusive).
• Exam 1 is scheduled in-class on October 8, 2021. It will cover lectures 1 through 4 (inclusive).

Lectures

• Textbook: Computer Architecture A Quantitative Approach, Fourth Edition
• Lecture 1: Fundamentals of Computer Architecture PDF
  • Reading assignment: Assemblers and Linkers
  • Reading assignment: Chapter 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.8, 1.9
• Lecture 2: Instruction Set Architecture and Implementation PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix B
• Lecture 3: Pipelining PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix A
• Lecture 4: Complexities with Pipelining and Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP) PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix A and Chapter 2
• Lecture 5: Scheduling to Extract Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP) PDF
  • Reading assignment: Chapter 2
• Lecture 6: Dynamic Scheduling to Extract ILP PDF
  • Reading assignment: Chapter 2
• Lecture 7: OOO Execution and Precise Exceptions PDF
  • Reading assignment: Chapter 2
• Lecture 8: OOO Execution and Branch Prediction PDF
  • Reading assignment: Chapter 2
• Lecture 9: Branch Prediction and Introduction to Caches PDF
  • Reading assignment: Chapter 2 and Appendix C
• Lecture 10: Caches I PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix C and Chapter 5
• Lecture 11: Caches II PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix C and Chapter 5
• Lecture 12: Caches III PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix C and Chapter 5
• Lecture 13: Memory Management PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix C and Chapter 5
• Lecture 14: Main Memory and Interface PDF
  • Reading assignment: none

Programming Assignments (due at start of class - no late submissions will be accepted)

• All programming assignment code materials are provided at GitHub repository: https://github.uconn.edu/omk12001/cse4302

• PA 0: Getting Started with riscy-uconn simulator PDF (due via HuskyCT Sep 10, 2021, 11:59pm EST)

• PA 1: Five-cycles per instruction riscy-uconn simulator PDF (due via HuskyCT Oct 1, 2021, 11:59pm EST)

• PA 2: 5-Stage Pipelined riscy-uconn simulator PDF (due via HuskyCT Oct 29, 2021, 11:59pm EST)

• PA 3: 5-Stage Pipeline with Multi-cycle ALU and Memory Access PDF (due via HuskyCT Nov 19, 2021, 11:59pm EST)

• PA 4: Pipelined Simulator With Scoreboard Algorithm (only for CSE 5302 and ECE 5402 students) PDF (due via HuskyCT Dec 13, 2021, 11:59pm EST)

Homeworks (due as indicated below - no late submissions will be accepted)

• Homework 1: PDF (due via HuskyCT on Sep 17, 2021, 11:59pm EST)

• Homework 2: PDF (due via HuskyCT on Sep 29, 2021, 11:59pm EST)

• Homework 3: PDF (due via HuskyCT on Oct 20, 2021, 11:59pm EST)

• Homework 4: PDF (due via HuskyCT on Oct 27, 2021, 11:59pm EST)

• Homework 5: solution PDF (due via HuskyCT on Nov 29, 2021, 11:59pm EST)