Computer Architecture II: Specialized

Course Nos. 0909-444-01/02
Fall 2001

Course Schedule

Week 1
Oct 25

Floating Point Notation: IEEE-754 Standard

CA2_lecture1.ppt
Week 2
Oct 31
Nov 1

IA-32 Architecture Data Types, Floating Point Arithmetic
Packet-switched networks

CA2_lecture2.ppt
CA2_lecture3.ppt
Week 3
Nov 7
Nov 8

OSI Protocol Stacks/TCP-IP
Queueing Theory

CA2_lecture4.ppt
CA2_lecture5.ppt (Slides from  CA2_lecture4.ppt -do not download again)
Week 4
Nov 14
Nov 15

IA-32 Pentium (CISC)
IA-64 Itanium (CISC)

Student Presentation 1: Eckert, Marino, Morrison, Sonntag
Student Presentation 2: Cleary, C. Foster, Thibaudeau. Also see Presentation Webpage.
Week 5
Nov 21

Power PC (RISC)
SPARC

Student Presentation 3: McCarthy, Watson, Wollenberg
Student Presentation 4: J. Foster, Miles, Vyas
Nov 22  Thanksgiving - No Class
Week 6
Nov 28
Nov 29

AMD-Athlon
Motorola M-CORE

Student Presentation 5: Guest, Lewitt, McCorkle
Student Presentation 6: Arr, Tieman
Week 7
Dec 5
Dec 6

Parallel Processing/Distributed Computing
DSP Processors

Student Presentation 7: Kulick, Robb, Tobin
Student Presentation 8: McDermott, Welch, Whelan
Week 8
Dec 12

Dec 13


Operatings Systems
PS-2
Compilers

Student Presentation 9: Browning, Kirlakovsky, Shah
Student Presentation 10: C. Foster, Moore, Thibaudeau. Also see Presentation Webpage.
Student Presentation 11: Chaubal, Rotter, Sterner
Dec 21 Class Project/ Final Exam. Download here.
Due Friday, Dec 21, 5:00 PM.

 
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