Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, in collaboration with
Computer Architecture and VLSI Systems Laboratory, ICS-FORTH, Crete, Greece

CS-425
Computer Architecture


Autumn 2002 semester


Lecture Notes

Chapter 1  - Lecture Notes

Chapter 2  - Lecture Notes

Chapter 3  - Lecture Notes

Chapter 4 (4.1-4.2) - Lecture Notes

DLX Instruction Opcode Mappings

Brief Presentation of the Pentium III and Pentium 4 Architectures

Chapter 5 Lecture Notes (Memories)

Chapter 4 (4.3) - Lecture Notes

Presentation of "The Microarchitecture of Superscalar Processors" Paper.


Reading Papers

G. Hinton, D. Sager, M. Upton, D. Boggs, D. Carmean, A. Kyker and P. Roussel,

The Microarchitecture of the Pentium 4 Processor, Intel.

J. E. Smith and G. S. Sohi,

The Microarchitecture of Superscalar Processors,

Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 83, pp. 1609--1624, Dec. 1995.

J. A. Fisher,

Very Long Instruction Word architectures and the ELI-512,

10th Symposium on Computer Architecture, IEEE Computer Society, 1983.



Exercises on HASE : HASE manual and Exercises 1 and 2

Project : specs and datapath

Schedule (of Lectures and Project Work)

Lab Equipment, IPC's, CAD Tools (to be added)


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