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ANNOUNCEMENTS
	YOU CAN DOWNLOAD A tar ARCHIVE OF THE SIMULATOR FROM: www.cs.binghamton.edu/~ghose/SIM Final Exam - Due: NOON, Fri

Course Outline and Policies
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Teaching Assistants
	Ms. Neha Fotaria     Office Hours: Tue, Thurs - 2:30 to 3:30 pm     Room ENGB N1 Mr. Khaldoun Ibrahim     Office Hours: Tue, Thurs - 4:00 to 5:00 pm     Room ENGB N11

Assignments

Homework 1 DUE Monday, September 17   - SOLUTIONS Homework 2 DUE Monday, October 3   - SOLUTIONS Homework 3 DUE Wednesday, November 14 Homework 4 DUE Wednesday, December 5 Reading Assigment for Final - Paper1 Reading Assigment for Final - Paper2 Programming Assignment Programming Assignment - Part 2 and instructions DUE - all demos and documentation and reports - Wednesday, December 12 ***IMPORTANT*** These files are password-protected. Acrobat will ask for a password when you try to open these files. To view and print the file, use the password given out in class.

Class Notes (DO NOT USE THE PRINTERS IN THE LAB TO PRINT THESE - printer usage accounting is turned on!)

August 27, 2007  Basic Concepts   - POWER DENSITY TRENDS September 10, 2007  Basic Concepts Pt. II, Introduction to Instruction Pipelines September 19, 2007  Instruction Pipelines - Part II   - GANTT CHART FOR TOMASULO SCHEDULER September 26, 2007  Instruction Pipelines - Part III October 1, 2007  Instruction Pipelines - Part IV October 8, 2007  Instruction Pipelines - Part V: Superscalar Machines, Branch Handling October 29, 2007  Instruction Pipelines - Part VI: Speulative Execution; Memory Systems - Part I November 7, 2007  Memory Systems - Part II November 19, 2007  Memory Systems - Part III, Superscalar Processors November 26, 2007  VLIW and EPIC Processors December 6, 2007  Case Studies; Parallel and Multicore Architectures ***IMPORTANT*** These files are password-protected. Acrobat will ask for a password when you try to open these files. To view and print the file, use the password given out in class.

Key Papers

Instruction Scheduling Smith and Weiss - ISCA '84 paper on Dynamic Instruction Scheduling (945 KB) Software Interlocking paper (333 KB) Monica Lam - Software Pipelining paper (1203 KB) B.R. Rau - Software Pipelining paper (1412 KB) Implementations of Dynamic Scheduling Palacharla, Jouppi and Smith paper on Dynamic Scheduling Logic (152 KB) Stark, Brown and Patt paper on Pipelining Dynamic Schedulers (114 KB) Precise Interrupts Smith and Pleszkun paper (870 KB) Moudgill and Vassiliadis paper (1261 KB) Branch Prediction Smith - ISCA '81 paper (633 KB) McFarling and Hennessey paper (790 KB) Pan, So and Rahmeh paper (870 KB) Yeh and Patt paper (1222 KB) Evers, Patel, Chappell and Patt paper (69 KB) Seznec EV8 predictor paper (208 KB) Papers on Memory Systems Farkas, Chow, Jouppi, and Vranesic paper (1618 KB) Cuppu, Jacob, Davis, and Mudge paper (388 KB) Jacob and Mudge - VM case studies paper (228 KB) Jacob and Mudge - VM implementation paper (263 KB) MORE TO BE ADDED SOON! ***IMPORTANT*** These files are password-protected. Acrobat will ask for a password when you try to open these files. To view and print the file, use the password given out in class.

Architecture Resources
	WWW Computer Architecture Pages SimpleScalar Simulator Proceedings of the ACM Int'l Symposium on Computer Architecture, ACM MICRO   Symposium, IEEE MICRO Magazine are accesible electronically at the ACM and IEEE   sites from any campus computer. We have electronic subscriptions.

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