CompSci 330,
Computer Organization

Index and Announcements

Announcements

Posting Date	Item
(start of semester)	Welcome to CompSci 330, Computer Organization! Announcements, updates and grades will be added to this section throughout the semester, as they occur. Check the links above for specific course materials. Check this page for online versions of slides shown in class.
2021-03-22	Midterm exam Midterm exam solutions
2021-02-01	Instructions for connecting a Hardware Lab (BFH 103) computer to a Raspberry Pi: lab-network.py
2019-05-03	Midterm Exam 1 solution: Exam 1 branch-s.s leaf-s.s

Class Notes

Date	Item
2021-02-01	Slides from textbook: chapter 1. Overview; design principles; circuit fabrication; measuring performance Thermal image of a Raspberry Pi 3B+: class video: Monday, 2021-02-01.
2021-02-08	Slides from textbook: chapter 2 — Assembly/machine language. LEGv8_Green_Card — Reference card for LEGv8 (ARMv8) assembly language sorts.zip. Sorting source code used in class. Relationship of high-level language, to assembly, to machine code: Makefile as developed in class.
2021-02-10	Neat Stuff: US Air Force boots up not one but two AMD-powered supercomputers after five years of Intel Haswell CPUs More Neat Stuff: A terabyte isn’t what it used to be --- 14% of Internet customers use more
2021-02-15	Yet More Neat Stuff: Forgot Valentine's Day? Never mind, today marks 75 years of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (Maybe this is why we're single)
2021-02-24	Solutions for assignment 1 (chapter 1): asn1-solutions.pdf
2021-03-18	Solutions for assignment 2 (chapter 2): asn2 solution. or asn2 solution from the instructor's guide. chapter 3, part A — processor integer arithmetic. Sample midterm questions.
2021-03-31	Solutions for assignment 5 (chapter 3): chapter 3 solutions. chapter 3, part B IEEE-754 floating point IEEE-754 formats.
2021-04-01	chapter 4, part A Basic datapath
2021-04-05	chapter 4, part B Pipelined datapath chapter 4, part C Performance issues
2020-04-12	part H — Instruction-Level Parallelism — Streaming video (15min 45sec) part I — ILP (continued) — Streaming video (19min 32sec)
2020-04-15	part J — Power Efficiency; chapter 4 conclusion — Streaming video (24min 29sec)
2020-04-19	chapter 5: Secondary Storage part A Storage hierarchy — Streaming video (12min 45sec) chapter 5: Secondary Storage part B main memory — Streaming video (12min 9sec) chapter 5: Secondary Storage part C secondary storage — Streaming video (21min 52sec)
2020-04-22	chapter 5 — slides as .pdf chapter 5: Secondary Storage part D cache organization — Streaming video (15min 36sec) chapter 5: Secondary Storage part E, associative cache — Streaming video (22min 51sec) Some informative links about SSDs and Flash memory, and how they impact the traditional memory hierarchy: Ars Technica article — in-depth explanation of Flash memory and its use in SSDs C/Net article — diminishing Windows writing to SSDs
2020-04-22	chapter 5: Secondary Storage part F, dependability — Material skipped chapter 5: Secondary Storage part G virtualization — Streaming video (19min 11sec) chapter 5: Secondary Storage part H, wrap-up — Streaming video (11min 28sec)
2020-04-27	Solutions for assignment 4 (chapter 3): asn4/ch03 solution. Solutions for assignment 5 (chapter 4): asn5/ch04 solution.
2020-05-04	Final exam: final exam. Solutions for assignment 5 (chapter 4): asn5/ch04 solution.
2019-04-22	Gray code and FSM — example of a simple Finite State Machine.
2019-04-29	chapter 6 — parallel processors CERN hardware — excerpt from an article about computer systems at CERN scientific research center. Parallel systems are their big new thing.

number of computers

133MHz computer

grandpa box

ouija board