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Computer Architecture – Fall 2021 (227-2210-00L)

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Course Information

Description

Computer architecture is the science and art of selecting and interconnecting hardware components to create a computer that meets functional, performance and cost goals. This course introduces the basic hardware structure of a modern programmable computer, including the basic laws underlying performance evaluation.

Objective

We will learn, for example, how to design the control and data path hardware for a MIPS-like processor, how to make machine instructions execute simultaneously through pipelining and simple superscalar execution, and how to design fast memory and storage systems.

Content

The principles presented in the lecture are reinforced in the laboratory through the design and simulation of a register transfer (RT) implementation of a MIPS-like pipelined processor in System Verilog. In addition, we will develop a cycle-accurate simulator of this processor in C, and we will use this simulator to explore processor design options.

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Prerequisites: Digitaltechnik

Lecture Schedule and Location

Thursday, 13:00-16:00, in HG D16.2
Friday, 13:00-16:00, in HG D16.2

Staff Information

Contact

Name E-mail Office Phone
Instructor Onur Mutlu onur.mutlu@inf.ethz.ch ETZ G 61.1 +41 44 632 88 53
Teaching Assistant Juan Gomez Luna juan.gomez@safari.ethz.ch ETZ H 64
Teaching Assistant Mohammad Sadrosadati ssadrosa@ethz.ch ETZ H 61.1
Teaching Assistant Jisung Park jisung.park@safari.ethz.ch ETZ H 61.1
Teaching Assistant Mohammed Alser mohammed.alser@inf.ethz.ch ETZ H 61.1
Teaching Assistant Nour Almadhoun Alserr nalserr@ethz.ch ETZ H 61.1
Teaching Assistant Rahul Bera rahbera@ethz.ch ETZ H 64
Teaching Assistant João Dinis Ferreira hello@joaof.eu ETZ H 61.1
Teaching Assistant Geraldo Francisco De Oliveira Junior geraldo.deoliveira@inf.ethz.ch ETZ H 61.2
Teaching Assistant Can Firtina can.firtina@inf.ethz.ch ETZ H 61.2
Teaching Assistant Hasan Hassan hhasan@inf.ethz.ch ETZ H 61.2
Teaching Assistant Konstantinos Kanellopoulos konstantinos.kanellopoulos@inf.ethz.ch ETZ H 64
Teaching Assistant Nika Mansouri Ghiasi mnika@student.ethz.ch ETZ H 64
Teaching Assistant Haiyu Mao haiyu.mao@inf.ethz.ch ETZ H 64
Teaching Assistant Lois Orosa Nogueira lois.orosa@inf.ethz.ch ETZ H 61.2
Teaching Assistant Gagandeep Singh gagan.gagandeepsingh@inf.ethz.ch ETZ H 64
Teaching Assistant Abdullah Giray Yaglikci giray.yaglikci@safari.ethz.ch ETZ H 61.2
Teaching Assistant Behzad Salami
Teaching Assistant Rakesh Nadig nadigr@student.ethz.ch ETZ H 64
Teaching Assistant Haocong Luo
Teaching Assistant Roknoddin Azizi
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