Lectures (Video)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Number Representation
- 3. Introduction to the C Language
- 4. Introduction to C - Part II
- 5. Introduction to C - Part III - C Memory Management
- 6. C Memory Management
- 7. C Memory Management - cont
- 8. Introduction to MIPS Assembly Language - Arithmetic
- 9. Introduction to MIPS Data Transfer and Decisions I
- 10. Introduction to MIPS Decisions II
- 11. Introduction to MIPS Procedures I
- 12. Introduction to MIPS Procedures II and Logical Ops
- 13. MIPS Instruction Format I
- 14. MIPS Instruction Format II
- 15. Floating Point I
- 16. Floating Point II
- 17. MIPS Instruction Format III
- 18. Runniing a Program I - Coupling, Assembling, Linking, Loading
- 19. Compilation, Assembly, Linking II
- 20. Intro to Synch. Digital Systems
- 21. State Elements
- 22. Representations of Combinational Logic Circuits
- 23. Combinational Logic Blocks
- 24. Introduction to CPU Design
- 25. CPU Design (of a Single-Cycle CPU)
- 26. CPU Design: Single-Cycle II
- 27. CPU Design: Control
- 28. CPU Design: Pipelining I
- 29. CPU Design: Pipelining II
- 30. Caches I
- 31. Caches II
- 32. Caches III
- 33. Virtual Memory I
- 34. Virtual Memory II
- 35. IO Basics: Polling and Interrupts
- 36. IO Networks
- 37. IO Disks
- 38. Performance
- 39. Writing Really Fast Programs
- 40. Parallelism in Processor Design
- 41. Intra-machine Parallelism: pthreads
- 42. Inter-machine Parallelism: mpi-map reduce
- 43. Summary, Review, and Evaluation
Machine Structures
Course Summary
This course is based on CS 61C Machine Structures, Spring 2008 made available by University of California, Berkeley: Webcast.Berkeley under the Creative commons BY-NC-ND 2.5 license.
This course covers the internal organization and operation of digital computers. Topics include machine architecture, support for high-level languages (logic, arithmetic, instruction sequencing) and operating systems (I/O, interrupts, memory management, process switching). Elements of computer logic design. Tradeoffs involved in fundamental architectural design decisions. The course is taught by a dynamic lecturer Dan Garcia who managed to make a relatively dry subject very interesting. A good set of lecture notes is available.
Reading Material
1. Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/software InterfaceDavid A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy, Peter J. Ashenden, James R. Larus, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/software Interface, 3rd Ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 2004, ISBN 9781558606043.
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2. The C Programming Language: ANSI C Version, 2nd Ed
Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie, The C Programming Language: ANSI C Version, 2nd Ed., Prentice Hall, 1988, ISBN 9780131103627
Course Material
1. Storage Management notes (223 KB pdf)2. Reference card for GDB version 5 (84 KB pdf)
3. Notes on C - Brian Harvey (153KB pdf)
4. Notes on Synchronous Digital Systems (596 KB pdf)
5. Notes on State Elements (1.07 MB pdf)
6. Notes on Combinational Logic Blocks (496 KB pdf)
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