Lecture and Timetable Info for Datorarkitektur Mat.Nat. Programmet

This page will change regularly look here for latest information

9 Oct. Some revision Questions
6 Oct. Revision Notes
18 Sept More slides
18 Sept. Links to slides, the postscript and pdf files below are broken. Originally I took them from here you want the slides created by Tod Amon chapters 1-4.
8 Sept. Information on the R2000 processor and the SPIM simulator. You can also find source files and a PC distribution there. In particular it is worth reading this which has all the instructions and documentation.
8 Sept. Some erros in the online timetable corrected, any more you find please email me.
Link to the Laborations etc. Here.
28 Aug. '00. Do not book mark this page its location will change. Best to book mark the parent page.

General Information

The couse text book is Structured Computer Organization by Andrew S.Tanenbaum published by Prentice Hall. You will also need supplementary information on the R2000 processor so you can do yor course. In fact the first six lectures will not use the book that much.

Timetable

The official printed timetable is correct. Please inform me of any differences between the web-version and the printed version.

I don't really like or even understand the need for PDF, so I'll not produce many PDF files. If you require a postscrpt windows there is a good public domain postscript viewer available from here.

Lecture Topic Date Location
1 Introduction to the Course 4/9 15:15-17:00 1111
2 Computer System Organization Sec. 2.1. and introduction to MIPS assembly language (R2000) Slides Postscript pdf these slids will be used in the next couple of lectures. Warning the postscript it quite inefficient and can take a long time to print. 6/9 10:15-12:00 1111
3 More on MIPS assembly 7/9 15:15-17:00 1111
4 Stacks and Strings Exercise sheet exersises sheet in postscript 8/9 13:15-15:00 1111
5 More on MIPS. Example MIPS program to calculate the factorial of a number fact.s More slideson stacks, remember this code is not desgined efficient but to be correct w.r.t stack use. 12/9 08:15-10:00 1111
6 Introduction to Digital Logic. Book section 3.1 Tobias presents laboration 1 Simple example for the SPIM simulator sum.s 13/9 15:15-17:00 1111
7 The Digital Logic Level Chapter 3 3.1,3.2,3.3 14/9 10:15-12:00 1311 (obs)
8 Representing Numbers A.1-A.5 and every thing you where afraid to ask about floating point numbers but where afraid to ask. Some interesting links on the wierdness of floating point can be found here(B.2) and here or a postscript version here 15/9 13:15-15:00 1111
9 The Microarchitecture and Processor organisation 2.1 Level 4.1-4.2 19/9 15:15-17:00 1111
10 Microcode 4.3 20/9 10:15-12:00 1111
11 Pipelines doing more than one thing at the same time. 22/9 13:15-15:00 1111
12 More on pipelines 4.5.3, some material on the R2000 pipeline. 25/9 15:15-17:00 1111
13 I/O 2.4,3.6 and 3.7 26/9 No Lecture 1111
14 More on I/O the SPIM I/O system additional material to follow 27/9 10:15-12:00 1111
15 Revision on Microcode and introduction to Laboration 2 28/9 10:15-12:00 Slides 1111
16 Erik Hagersten Talks about Caches Slides 3/10 13:15-15:00 1111
17 Erik Hagersten Talks about Virtual Memory 4/10 10:15-12:00 1111
18 No Lecture 5/10 10:15-12:00 1111
19 Guest lecture on Tramsmeta's Cursoe Chip followed by revision session 6/10 13:15-15:00 1111
20 Revision 10/10 15:15-17:00 1111
Tenta 13/10 ????

Lecture	Topic	Date	Location
1	Introduction to the Course	4/9 15:15-17:00	1111
2	Computer System Organization Sec. 2.1. and introduction to MIPS assembly language (R2000) Slides Postscript pdf these slids will be used in the next couple of lectures. Warning the postscript it quite inefficient and can take a long time to print.	6/9 10:15-12:00	1111
3	More on MIPS assembly	7/9 15:15-17:00	1111
4	Stacks and Strings Exercise sheet exersises sheet in postscript	8/9 13:15-15:00	1111
5	More on MIPS. Example MIPS program to calculate the factorial of a number fact.s More slideson stacks, remember this code is not desgined efficient but to be correct w.r.t stack use.	12/9 08:15-10:00	1111
6	Introduction to Digital Logic. Book section 3.1 Tobias presents laboration 1 Simple example for the SPIM simulator sum.s	13/9 15:15-17:00	1111
7	The Digital Logic Level Chapter 3 3.1,3.2,3.3	14/9 10:15-12:00	1311 (obs)
8	Representing Numbers A.1-A.5 and every thing you where afraid to ask about floating point numbers but where afraid to ask. Some interesting links on the wierdness of floating point can be found here(B.2) and here or a postscript version here	15/9 13:15-15:00	1111
9	The Microarchitecture and Processor organisation 2.1 Level 4.1-4.2	19/9 15:15-17:00	1111
10	Microcode 4.3	20/9 10:15-12:00	1111
11	Pipelines doing more than one thing at the same time.	22/9 13:15-15:00	1111
12	More on pipelines 4.5.3, some material on the R2000 pipeline.	25/9 15:15-17:00	1111
13	I/O 2.4,3.6 and 3.7	26/9 No Lecture	1111
14	More on I/O the SPIM I/O system additional material to follow	27/9 10:15-12:00	1111
15	Revision on Microcode and introduction to Laboration 2	28/9 10:15-12:00 Slides	1111
16	Erik Hagersten Talks about Caches Slides	3/10 13:15-15:00	1111
17	Erik Hagersten Talks about Virtual Memory	4/10 10:15-12:00	1111
18	No Lecture	5/10 10:15-12:00	1111
19	Guest lecture on Tramsmeta's Cursoe Chip followed by revision session	6/10 13:15-15:00	1111
20	Revision	10/10 15:15-17:00	1111
Tenta		13/10	????

Justin Pearson