CSE 548: Computer Systems Architecture

Winter 1998

Instructor:

Larry Snyder, snyder@cs.washington.edu

Lectures

MWF 10:30am - 11:20pm in Seig 224

Office Hours

Mondays and Wednesdays 4:30pm-5:30pm in 426D Sieg, or by appointment

Assistant: Judy Watson, 543-0374, jwatson@cs.washington.edu

Teaching Assistant:

Ed Hong , edhong@cs.washington.edu

Office Hours

Wednesday 11:30AM-12:20pm in 326A Sieg, or by appointment

Course information

• Syllabus html postscript
• Mail Archive

Homeworks

• Homework 1 html postscript
• Homework 2
• Homework 3

Review Material/ Supplemental Material

• Last quarter's undergrad CSE471 final
• Selected Homework 3 solutions
• ATOM
  • How to run Atom
  • slides from the talk
  • ATOM user manual
  • DEC WRL Technical Note on ATOM
  • DEC WRL Research Report on ATOM
  • Problem with GetInstType

Other information

• Specific Hardware information
  • Short Alpha Instruction set Description (Note: this postscript file downloads and prints fine, but ghostview doesn't like it).
  • Link to Alpha Books (Complete description of the instruction set is in the Alpha Architecture Handbook)
• Tools
  • Atom - a system for building analysis tools on the Alpha 21064
  • Etch - a binary rewriter for the x86
• Other tools
  • Shade - an Instuction Set simulator for the SPARC V8
  • Alpha Hardware Monitors
  • Pixie - just User's Manual from 1991(Postscript)
  • Dinero - A 'uniprocessor cache simulator'

Other neat pages

• CPU Info Center - info on current/future processors

Previous Quarters

• Winter 1997