15-347/18-347 Spring '96
Class Handouts Available On-Line

Course syllabus (postscript)

Lecture 2 (Jan 18): Introduction to assembly code (postscript)
Lecture 3 (Jan 23): Machine-level programming: Control flow and floating point (postscript)
Lecture 4 (Jan 25): Machine-level programming: Procedures (postscript)
Lecture 5 (Jan 30): Performance (postscript)
Lecture 6 (Feb 1): Benchmarking (postscript)
Lecture 7 (Feb 6): Machine-level programming: Data structures (postscript)
Lectures 8 and 9 (Feb 8 and 13): Instruction set comparisons (postscript)
Lecture 12 (Feb 22): Datapath (postscript)
Lecture 13 (Feb 27): Introduction to pipelining (postscript)
Lecture 14 (Feb 29): Data hazards (postscript)
Lecture 15 (Mar 5): Control hazards (postscript)
Lecture 16 (Mar 7): Exceptions (postscript) and Free bonus lecture on optimizing C code (postscript)
Lecture 18 (Mar 12, 14): Implementing computer arithmetic (postscript)
Lecture 19 (Mar 19): Intel processor implementations (postscript)
Lecture 21 (Apr 2): The memory hierarchy (postscript)
Lecture 22 (Apr 4): Caches (postscript)
Lecture 23 (Apr 6): Cache performance (postscript)
Lecture 24 (Apr 11): Multilevel caches and virtual memory (postscript)
Lecture 25 (Apr 15): Buses (postscript)
Lecture 26 (Apr 17): I/O devices and Copenhefer's blunder (postscript)
Lecture 27 (Apr 23): Networks (postscript)

Last updated: Apr 5, 1996 (droh@cs)