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课程内容

本课程介绍计算机的基本概念，包括数据的表示、指令集基础；介绍计算机基本运算的实现，包括整数与浮点数的加减法、乘除法。重点介绍计算机基本部件的设计与实现，包括CPU与存储器的结构与设计。

教材

• Patterson, David A., and John L. Hennessy. Computer organization and design MIPS edition: the hardware/software interface. Newnes, 2013.
• 《计算机组成与设计：软硬件接口》第五版

课程大纲

1. Chapter 1

1.2 Eight great ideas

1.3 C code -> assembly code -> binary code

1.6 Performance: CPI * InstCount * Cycle time

1.7 Power wall

2. Chapter 2

2.2 Arithmetic operations of MIPS

2.3 Operands of MIPS

2.4 Signed and unsigned numbers: integer representation

2.5 Instruction representation: 3 types of Insts

Fig. 2.6, Fig 2.17

2.7 Instructions for Making decision

2.8 Supporting Procedures in MIPS

2.11 Translating and staring a program

2.12 A C Sort example

3. Chapter 3

3.3. Multiplication

3.4 Division

3.5 Floating Point

3.6 Subword Parallelism

4. Chapter 4

4.2 Logic Design Conventions

4.3 Building a datapath

4.5 An Overview of pipelining

4.9 Exceptions

4.10 Parallelim via instructions: ILP (pipeline + multi-issue)

5. Chapter 5

5.1 Introduction: Locality

5.3 The basics of Cache

5.4 Measure cache performance

5.7 Virtual memory

5.8 A Comman Framework for Memory Hierarchy: caching and virtual memory

5.14 Cache blocking

6. Chapter

6.2 Difficulty in parallel programming

6.3 SISD, SIMD, MISD, SPMD and vector

6.4 hardware multithreading

6.5 multicore

6.12 Multiple processors

Concept figures

1. Memory Hierachy