15-740 Fall '98
Class Handouts Available On-Line
All handouts identified as ``PDF'' are in Adobe Acrobat
format. This format has the advantage over
postscript of being viewable on a variety of platforms, including
(most) Unix machines, PC's, and MAC's.
You, can view and print these files using the publicly available Adobe
Acrobat Reader. On most campus Unix machines this is installed as the
program acroread. You can also download free copies of the
reader from Adobe Systems.
Handouts identified as ``PPT'' are in Microsoft Powerpoint format.
These were prepared using Version 4.0 on a Macintosh. They should be
readable from a Windows machine, as well.
Lecture Notes
- Lecture 1: Performance and Technology (Sept. 15)
PDF,
PPT
- Lecture 2: Alpha Programming (Sept. 17 & 22)
PDF,
PPT
- Lecture 3: Instruction Set Comparisons (Sept. 22)
PDF,
PPT
- Lecture 4: Initial Design of an Alpha Processor (Sept. 24)
PDF,
PPT
- Lecture 5: Advanced Pipelining (Sept. 29)
PDF,
PPT
- Lecture 6: Superscalar Processing (Oct. 1)
PDF,
PPT
- Lecture 7: Computer Arithmetic (Oct. 6)
PDF,
PPT
- Lecture 8: Caches (Oct. 8)
PDF,
PPT
- Lecture 9: Virtual Memory (Oct. 13)
PDF,
PPT
- Lecture 10: Alpha 21264 Case Study (Oct. 15)
- Talk given by Jim Heller
PDF
- Supplementary slides
PDF,
PPT
- Lecture 11: Multimedia Computing (Oct. 20)
PDF,
PPT
- Lecture 14: Parallel Architecture Fundamentals (Nov. 3)
PDF,
PPT
- Lecture 15: Parallel Programming (Nov. 5)
PDF,
PPT
- Lecture 16: Cache Coherence (Nov. 10)
PDF,
PPT
- Lecture 17: Memory Consistency Models (Nov. 12)
PDF,
PS
- Lecture 18: Model Checking (Nov. 17)
PDF,
PPT
- Unix .tar file containing the
files for the traffic light controller example.
- Lecture 19: Latency Tolerance and Multiprocessor Interconnects (Nov. 19)
- Lecture 20: Synchronization (Nov. 24)
PDF,
PPT
- Lecture 21: Hardware Technology (Dec. 1)
PDF,
PPT
- Lecture 22: BDD Optimization Case Study (Dec. 3)
PDF,
PPT
Course Readings
Information about these are on the
course readings page.
Supplementary Information
- A good
source of information on microprocessors is Microprocessor
Report. The subscription price is high, but you get lots of
information for your money. The CMU E&S Library has a subscription.
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