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Computer Architecture – Fall 2023 (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.

Course description page
Moodle

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

  • Mailing List: comparch@lists.inf.ethz.ch (sent to instructor and TAs)
  • Office Hours:
  • Monday (01:00PM~02:00PM): Hybrid (ETZ H64 & Zoom: Check Moodle)
  • Tuesday (05:00PM~06:00PM): Online (Zoom: Check Moodle)
  • Wednesday (10:00AM~11:00AM): Hybrid (ETZ H64 & Zoom: Check Moodle)
Name E-mail Office Phone
Instructor Onur Mutlu onur.mutlu@inf.ethz.ch ETZ G 61.1 +41 44 632 88 53
Instructor Juan Gomez Luna juan.gomez@safari.ethz.ch ETZ H61.1
Instructor Mohammad Sadrosadati ssadrosa@ethz.ch ETZ H 61.1
Teaching Assistant Yu Liang liangyu@ethz.ch ETZ H 61.2
Teaching Assistant Rahul Bera rahbera@ethz.ch ETZ H 64
Teaching Assistant Nisa Bostanci
Teaching Assistant İsmail Emir Yüksel
Teaching Assistant Melina Soysal melina@soysal.de OAT U13
Teaching Assistant Can Firtina firtinac@ethz.ch ETZ H 61.2
Teaching Assistant Nika Mansouri Ghiasi mnika@student.ethz.ch ETZ H 64
Teaching Assistant Geraldo Francisco De Oliveira Junior geraldo.deoliveira@inf.ethz.ch ETZ H 61.2
Teaching Assistant Konstantinos Kanellopoulos konstantinos.kanellopoulos@inf.ethz.ch ETZ H 64
Teaching Assistant Joël Lindegger
Teaching Assistant Rakesh Nadig nadigr@ethz.ch ETZ H 64
Teaching Assistant Ataberk Olgun ataberk.olgun@safari.ethz.ch ETZ H 61.2
Teaching Assistant Abdullah Giray Yaglikci giray.yaglikci@safari.ethz.ch ETZ H 61.2
Teaching Assistant Haocong Luo
Teaching Assistant Banu Cavlak
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