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

Course Syllabus

Instructor

• Professor Omer Khan
• Office: ITEB 447
• Email: khan@uconn.edu
• Office Hours: In person after class (to meet before class, email the day before to confirm)

TA

• Hanan Khan
• Email: abdul_hanan_gul.khan@uconn.edu
• Office Hours: 1-2pm, Monday and Friday
• Location: ITE 430

Announcements

• Exam 2 is scheduled in-class on November 14, 2024. It will cover lectures 11 through 19 (inclusive).
• Exam 1 is scheduled in-class on October 10, 2024. It will cover lectures 1 through 10 (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: Fundamental Principles PDF
  • Reading assignment: Chapter 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.8, 1.9
• Lecture 3: Instruction Set Architecture PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix B
• Lecture 4: Instruction Set Implementation PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix B
• Lecture 5: Pipelining I PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix A
• Lecture 6: Pipelining II PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix A and Chapter 2
• Lecture 7: Pipelining III PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix A and Chapter 2
• Lecture 8: Pipelining IV PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix A and Chapter 2
• Lecture 9: Complexities with Pipelining I PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix A and Chapter 2
• Lecture 10: Complexities with Pipelining II PDF
  • Review of PA1 source code
  • Reading assignment: Appendix A and Chapter 2
• Lecture 11: Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP) I PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix A and Chapter 2
• Lecture 12: Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP) II PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix A and Chapter 2
• Lecture 13: Dynamic Scheduling using Scoreboard PDF
  • Reading assignment: Chapter 2
• Lecture 14: Scoreboard II PDF
  • Reading assignment: Chapter 2
• Lecture 15: Dynamic Scheduling using Tomasulo PDF
  • Reading assignment: Chapter 2
• Lecture 16: Dynamic Scheduling using Tomasulo II PDF
  • Reading assignment: Chapter 2
• Lecture 17: OOO Execution and Precise Exceptions PDF
  • Reading assignment: Chapter 2
• Lecture 18: Branch Prediction I PDF
  • Reading assignment: Chapter 2
• Lecture 19: Branch Prediction II PDF
  • Reading assignment: Chapter 2
• Lecture 20: Caches I PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix C and Chapter 5
• Lecture 21: Caches II PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix C and Chapter 5
• Lecture 22: Caches III PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix C and Chapter 5
• Lecture 23: Caches Optimizations PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix C and Chapter 5
• Lecture 24: Caches Optimizations II PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix C and Chapter 5
• Lecture 25: Memory Management PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix C and Chapter 5
• Lecture 26: 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

• Introduction to riscv-uconn PDF

• riscv-uconn ISA Encodings PDF

• PA 0: Getting Started with riscy-uconn simulator PDF (due via HuskyCT Sep 3, 2024, 11:59pm EST)

• PA 1: Pipelined RISC-V Simulator with Interlocks and No Control-Flow Instructions PDF (due via HuskyCT Sep 17, 2024, 11:59pm EST; late submission with penalty (hard deadline) due Sep 20, 2024, 11:59pm EST)
  • Supplementary material for PA1 PDF
  • PA1 CORRECT OUTPUT PA1_OUTPUT

• PA 2: Pipelined RISC-V Simulator with Control-Flow Instructions and Forwarding PDF (due via HuskyCT Oct 3, 2024, 11:59pm EST; late submission with penalty (hard deadline) due Oct 7, 2024, 11:59pm EST)
  • PA2 CORRECT OUTPUT PA2_OUTPUT_WITHOUT_CPI
  • Use the following command for output comparison:

    diff -I 'TOTAL CYCLES SIMULATED' -I 'AVERAGE CPI' pa2_out_gold_wo_CPI.txt pa2_out.txt

• PA 3: In-order Pipelined RISC-V Simulator with Multi-cycle Execution PDF (due via HuskyCT Oct 29, 2024)

• PA 4: Out-of-Order Execution in Pipelined RISC-V Simulator PDF (due via HuskyCT Dec 2, 2024)

• Project: Dynamic Branch Prediction and Data Cache in OOO Pipelined RISC-V Simulator PDF (due for graduate students opting to do project; HuskyCT Dec 13, 2024, 11:59pm EST)

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

• Homework 1: PDF, Solution PDF (due via HuskyCT on Sep 10, 2024, 11:59pm EST)

• Homework 2: PDF, Solution PDF (due via HuskyCT on Sep 25, 2024, 11:59pm EST)

• Homework 3: PDF, Solution PDF (due via HuskyCT on Oct 7, 2024, 11:59pm EST)

• Homework 4: PDF, Solution PDF (due via HuskyCT on Oct 24, 2024, 11:59pm EST)

• Homework 5: PDF, Solution PDF (due via HuskyCT on Nov 8, 2024, 11:59pm EST)

• Homework 6: PDF, Solution PDF (due via HuskyCT on Nov 22, 2024, 11:59pm EST)