COMP311-08B Resources

This page contains the resources that were made available on the COMP311-08B Moodle course page. The original URL was http://elearn.waikato.ac.nz/course/view.php?id=1120. These HTML pages were all made by David Goodwin.

Lecture Notes - Part I

• Lecture 1 - Introduction [PDF] [PPT]
• Lecture 2 - Instruction set architectures [PDF] [PPT]
• Lecture 3 - Instruction set architectures part two [PDF] [PPT]
• Lecture 4 - Arithmetic [PDF] [PPT]
• Lecture 5 - Arithmetic II [PDF] [PPT]
• Lecture 6 - Arithmetic III [PDF] [PPT]
• Lecture 7 - Datapath Design [PDF] [PPT]
• Lecture 8 - Datapath Design II [PDF] [PPT]
• Lecture 8a - A note on signed integer division by powers of 2 [PDF] [PPT]
• Lecture 9 - Datapath Design III [PDF] [PPT]
• Lecture 10 - Pipelining [PDF] [PPT]
• Lecture 11 - Branch Prediction [PDF] [PPT]
• Lecture 12 - Other Instruction Set Architectures [PDF] [PPT]
• Lecture 13 - Caches, Multiprocessor Systems [PDF] [PPT]
• Lecture 14 - Caches II [PDF] [PPT]
• Lecture 15 - Last years test [PDF]
• Lecture 16 - Mid-semester test
• Lecture 17 - Performance [PDF] [PPT]

Lecture Notes - Part II

• VHDL
  • Introduction [PDF]
  • Sequential Logic [PDF]
  • Hierachy [PDF]
  • Language Features [PDF]
• Introduction to Riviera [PDF]
• Memory Hierachy [PDF]
• PC Architectures
  • Buses [PDF]
  • CPUs [PDF]
  • Front Side Buses [PDF]

Assignments

• Assignment 1 - Instruction Sets and Compiler Optimisation [PDF]
  • quick.c
  • quick.arm-noopt.s
  • quick.arm-O1.s
  • quick.arm-O2.s
  • quick.arm-O3.s
• Assignment 2 - MIPS/WRAMP optimisation
  • quick.c
• Assignment 3: VHDL PC
• Assignment 4: VHDL Multiplier
  • mult_tb.vhdl

Resources

• Course overview
• ARM Processor Manual
• MIPS Processor Manual
• REX/WRAMP Manual
• 2007 Test
• VHDL files used in class