COMP226 2013 Lecture Titles

If you want to review what we actually did you should look at Mike's lecture-by-lecture summary.

Week	Lect	Summary
1	1	Unit organisation. Why study computer architecture?
	2	RISC Assembly programming - a first example
	3	RISC Assembly Programming - an example with a loop
2	1	The SPARC IS (Refcard)
	2	More on the SPARC Instruction Set and branch delays
	3	Machine code
3	1	More machine code
	2	Subroutines and stacks
	3	Recursion
4	1	Pipelining and HDL
	2	More Pipelining and what happens when
	3	Data Hazards
5	1	Size/speed trade-off, DRAM, ROM, SIMM, principle of locality, basics of cache.
	2	cache.
	3	Cache design, write buffer, improving cache performance. 3C's
6	1	Summing an array and the cache, efficient programming.
	2	Caches cont.
	3	Caches cont.
7	1	Virtual memory
	2	TLB, TLB and cache, replacement algorithms.
	3
8	1
	2	Virtual memory cont.
	3	Alpha AXP architecture
9	1
	2	Hard disks and their structure
	3	Buses
10	1	Bus concepts and DMA
	2	Interrupts
	3	Systems
11	1	Flash memory
	2	Floating point arithmetic
	3	Len's review
12	1	The datapath
	2	More datapath
	3	Control
13	1	Digital logic
	2	More digital logic
	3	Mike's review and exam details