Norm's ENCM 369 L02 Home Page
Winter 2019
Norm Bartley
Watch here for notes from the document camera
in ENE 241 following each of Norm's Winter 2019 lectures
in ENCM 369 L02.
Please go to
Steve Norman's ENCM 369
Home Page for 2019 course information. There, you'll find additional links to course
documents, handouts, lab material, and his L01/T01/T02 lecture notes.
Norm's 2019 L02 Lecture Notes
Week 1 (Jan 10 - Jan 11)
| Day |
Date |
Key Topics |
Notes |
| Thu |
Jan 10 |
A PowerPoint introduction to ENCM 369; organization of a simple computer. |
link | ;
| Fri |
Jan 11 |
Main memory, registers, memory reads/writes, sequences of machine instructions. |
link |
Week 2 (Jan 14 - Jan 18)
| Day |
Date |
Key Topics |
Notes |
| Mon |
Jan 14 |
MIPS memory organization, registers, machine language, assembly language. |
link |
| Wed |
Jan 16 |
More MIPS instruction examples, memory transfers, organizing MIPS registers. |
link |
| Fri |
Jan 18 |
Load and store instructions; accessing array elements; branching and jumping. |
link |
Week 3 (Jan 21 - Jan 25)
| Day |
Date |
Key Topics |
Notes |
| Mon |
Jan 21 |
[Revised] Comparisons, left-shifting, MIPS pseudoinstructions, procedure calling. |
link |
| Wed |
Jan 23 |
Leaf and non-leaf procedures; the stack; handling $ra register conflicts. |
link |
| Fri |
Jan 25 |
Handling s-register and a-register conflicts; two ways to handle a-register conflicts. |
link |
Week 4 (Jan 28 - Feb 1)
| Day |
Date |
Key Topics |
Notes |
| Mon |
Jan 28 |
Local variables on the stack; character arrays and strings; "little endian" byte addressing. |
link |
| Wed |
Jan 30 |
Byte access continued; a string-copy procedure; character arrays on the stack. |
link |
| Fri |
Feb 01 |
Logic instructions (or, ori, lui, etc.); encoding of branch and jump instructions. |
link |
Week 5 (Feb 04 - Feb 08)
| Day |
Date |
Key Topics |
Notes |
| Mon |
Feb 04 |
Compiling and building C programs; the gcc toolchain; object and executable files. |
link |
| Wed |
Feb 07 |
The linker and relocation information; static and dynamic linking. Two's-complement numbers. |
link |
| Fri |
Feb 09 |
Signed and unsigned numbers in MIPS; four facts about 2's-complement. |
link |
Week 6 (Feb 11 - Feb 15)
| Day |
Date |
Key Topics |
Notes |
| Mon |
Feb 11 |
2's-complement addition and signed overflow; the add/addu/addi/addiu instructions. |
link |
| Wed |
Feb 13 |
Unsigned addition overflow; signed and unsigned subtraction and subtraction overflow. |
link |
| Fri |
Feb 15 |
Introduction to Microarchitecture, review of DFFs; processor components. |
link |
Week 7 (Feb 25 - Mar 1)
| Day |
Date |
Key Topics |
Notes |
| Mon |
Feb 25 |
Processor components: register file, data memory; the single-cycle processor. |
link |
| Wed |
Feb 27 |
The sign-extender and the ALU; the single-cycle machine, and the 'lw' and 'sw' instructions. |
link |
| Fri |
Mar 01 |
Datapath for R-type instructions, and 'beq'; the main control unit. |
link |
Week 8 (Mar 4 - Mar 8)
| Day |
Date |
Key Topics |
Notes |
| Mon |
Mar 04 |
Timing analysis in a single-cycle processor; introduction to pipelining. |
link |
| Wed |
Mar 06 |
The five pipeline stages; pipelined execution of instructions; pipeline hazards. |
link |
| Fri |
Mar 08 |
Solutions to data and control hazards; introduction to pipelining hardware. |
link |
Week 9 (Mar 11 - Mar 15)
| Day |
Date |
Key Topics |
Notes |
| Mon |
Mar 11 |
Tracing an R-type instuction throught the pipeline; pipeline control; managing hazards. |
link |
| Wed |
Mar 13 |
Data- and control-hazard management; introduction to exception handling. |
link |
| Fri |
Mar 15 |
Final comments on exceptions; introduction to memory systems. |
link |
Week 10 (Mar 18 - Mar 22)
| Day |
Date |
Key Topics |
Notes |
| Mon |
Mar 18 |
Cache introduction continued; locality of reference; a direct-mapped cache. |
link |
| Wed |
Mar 20 |
Direct-mapped caches, continued; set-bit conflicts; set-associative caches. |
link |
| Fri |
Mar 22 |
Multi-word blocks; set-associative cache-replacement strategies. |
link |
Week 11 (Mar 25 - Mar 29)
| Day |
Date |
Key Topics |
Notes |
| Mon |
Mar 25 |
The write buffer; the write-back and write-through caches; multi-level caches. |
link |