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buzzword [2015/01/21 23:02]
rachata
buzzword [2015/01/28 19:18]
rachata
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   * Fixed vs. variable length instruction   * Fixed vs. variable length instruction
 +  * Huffman encoding
   * Uniform vs. non-uniform decode   * Uniform vs. non-uniform decode
   * Registers   * Registers
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     * How does MIPS load words across alignment the boundary     * How does MIPS load words across alignment the boundary
  
 +===== Lecture 5 (1/26 Mon.) =====
  
 +  * Tradeoffs in ISA: Instruction length
 +    * Uniform vs. non-uniform
 +  * Design point/Use cases
 +    * What dictates the design point?
 +  * Architectural states
 +  * uArch
 +    * How to implement the ISA in the uArch
 +  * Different stages in the uArch
 +  * Clock cycles
 +  * Multi-cycle machine
 +  * Datapath and control logic
 +    * Control signals
 +  * Execution time of instructions/​program
 +    * Metrics and what do they means
 +  * Instruction processing
 +    * Fetch
 +    * Decode
 +    * Execute
 +    * Memory fetch
 +    * Writeback
 +  * Encoding and semantics
 +  * Different types of instructions (I-type, R-type, etc.)
 +  * Control flow instructions
 +  * Non-control flow instructions
 +  * Delayed slot/​Delayed branch
 +  * Single cycle control logic
 +  * Lockstep
 +  * Critical path analysis
 +    * Critical path of a single cycle processor
 +  * What is in the control signals?
 +    * Combinational logic & Sequential logic
 +  * Control store
 +  * Tradeoffs of a single cycle uarch
 +  * Design principles
 +    * Common case design
 +    * Critical path design
 +    * Balanced designs
 +    * Dynamic power/​Static power
 +      * Increases in power due to frequency
 +
 +===== Lecture 6 (1/28 Mon.) =====
 +
 +  * Design principles
 +    * Common case design
 +    * Critical path design
 +    * Balanced designs
 +  * Multi cycle design
 +  * Microcoded/​Microprogrammed machines
 +    * States
 +    * Translation from one state to another
 +    * Microinstructions
 +    * Microsequencing
 +    * Control store - Product control signals
 +    * Microsequencer ​  
 +    * Control signal
 +      * What do they have to control? ​   ​
 +  * Instruction processing cycle
 +  * Latch signals
 +  * State machine
 +  * State variables
 +  * Condition code
 +  * Steering bits
 +  * Branch enable logic
 +  * Difference between gating and loading? (write enable vs. driving the bus)
 +  * Memory mapped I/O
 +  * Hardwired logic
 +    * What control signals come from hardwired logic?
 +  * Variable latency memory
 +  * Handling interrupts
 +  * Difference betwen interrupts and exceptions
 +  * Emulator (i.e. uCode allots minimal datapath to emulate the ISA)
 +  * Updating machine behavior
 +  * Horizontal microcode
 +  * Vertical microcode
 +  * Primitives
 +  ​
 +
 +    ​
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