CS 441/EECE 401 Modern Computer Architecture
Spring 2003

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Instruction Set Quick Reference
Start from http://www.arm.com/Documentation/UserMans. The instruction set quick reference is the next to last document in the Technical References menu.
Swarm (SoftWare ARM), an instruction set emultor (http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~michael/phd/swarm.html)
Sleeve -- this link seems to be dead (http://www.armlinux.org/projects/sleeve/)

Mark D. Hill, Norman P. Jouppi, and Gurindar S. Sohi; Readings in Computer Architecture; Morgan Kaufmann, 2000.

Steve Furber; ARM System-on-chip Architecture; Addison-Wesley, 2000.

Tuesday, Thursday 2:00-3:15 Mitchell Hall

	Date	Topic	Reading
		Introduction
1	1/21/03	Overview
		ARM
2	1/23/03	Introduction to ARM	ARM 1-48
3	1/28/03	ARM Instruction set Overview and Organization	ARM 49-104
4	1/30/03	(continued)
		Instruction Sets
5	2/4/03	Introduction, Moore's Law, and Amdahl's Law	RCA 56-67, 69-71, 79-81
6	2/6/03	Overview of Instruction sets
7	2/11/03	Wulf's Perspective and the IBM 801	RCA 111-134
8	2/13/03	RISC/CISC	RCA 135-155
		ARM -- again
9	2/18/03	Memory Hierarchy	ARM 269-289
10	2/20/03	Operating Systems	ARM 290-316
		Classic Machines
11	2/25/03	The IBM 360 and CDC 6600	RCA 1-39
12	2/27/01	The Cray 1	RCA 40-49
13	3/4/03	project 1
14	3/6/03
		Midterm Exam
15	3/11/03	Review
16	3/13/03	Midterm Exam
		Spring Break
		Memory Systems
17	3/25/03	Introduction, Cache origins, and Cache advances	RCA 363-394
18	3/27/03	Cache advances and Virtual Memory	RCA 395-433
18	4/1/03	Performance	RCA 434-442 & 82-100
		Instruction Level Parallelism
19	4/3/03	Introduction	RCA 175-213
20	4/8/03	Speculative Execution	RCA 214-251
21	4/10/03	The IBM RS 6000 and Mips R10000	RCA 252-287
		Dataflow and Multithreading
22	4/15/03	Introduction and Dataflow	RCA 309-341
23	4/17/03	Multithreading	RCA 342-362
		SIMD Parallelism
24	4/22/03	Introduction, Flynn's classification, and PIM	RCA 515-527 & 542-550
		Multiprocessors and Multicomputers
25	4/24/03	Introduction and cache coherence	RCA 551-560 & 574-582
26	4/29/03	Stanford Dash, COMA, and the Cosmic Cube	RCA 583-622
		Networks
27	5/1/03	Ethernet and Wormhole Routing	RCA 482-506
28	5/6/03
		Final Exam
30	5/8/03	Review
31	5/13/01	Final Exam (12:30-2:30)

Project	Handout Date	Due Date	Grade Percentage
ARM Critique	2/24/03	3/27/03	10%
Instruction Set Design	2/24/03	4/3/03	15%
Cache Simulation			10%
Out of order simulation			10%
Research Paper			10%