Course Materials

Course Overview
Syllabus
Class Readings
Lecture Notes

Announcements

December 19th 1:25 PM: GOOD LUCK ON THE FINAL!

December 19th 1:15 PM: The final exam is posted here. It must be submitted via email to w-hwu@uiuc.edu and gkent@crhc.uiuc.edu by 4:30 PM.

• Final exam answer template.
• The link above is simply a text file. Save it and open it in your favorite text editor (preferably a UNIX-based text editor, but notepad is okay) to modify your answers. Place one and only one letter (T,F-case does not matter) with no spacing inside each set of parentheses designated as the answer blank for the corresponding question.

December 16th: The proposed final questions are now available.

December 9th: The class final will be Thursday December 19th from 1:30-4:30.

October 28th: The Final Project Overview is now available.

October 27th: Exam 1 solutions are now posted.

October 19th: Exam 1 question proposals are now posted.

October 16th: The first exam is now going to be Tuesday 10/22 from 5-6:30 PM in 151 EL. The exam will cover all material presented in class up to 10/16.

October 16th: Guest lecture by David Kirk, NVidia fellow, Monday, 10/21. Also attend his CS Seminar following his guest lecture.

October 16th: Special office hours/review session - Friday October 18th from 2-3:30 PM in 106B8 EH

October 8th: More class readings have been posted.

October 8th: First midterm moved back to a yet to be determined date. The midterm will also have a new format.

• The exam will consist of multiple choice questions submitted by students.
  • These multiple choice questions can have a maximum of 4 possible answers.
  • However, the question can have 0-4 correct answers.
• Students can submit up to two questions with proposed answers.
• For each one of your questions selected to be part of the exam, 5 pts extra credit will be added to your exam score.
• All exam questions should be submitted to w-hwu@uiuc.edu by October 16th.
• The exam will be open book and open notes.
• All questions submitted by all students will be posted here on the website prior to the exam.

September 23rd: First midterm in class October 14th.

September 18th: First class readings are now available at link above.

September 16th: Make up class rescheduled for 9/24 from 5-6:15 PM, in 141 CSL (location may change).

September 16th: No make up class tomorrow (9/17)

August 29th: Student information sheet (pdf) due Wednesday, September 4th.

August 29th: The ECE 412 newsgroup is uiuc.class.ece412

Resources

Computer Architecture Home Page. Has links to tools, simulators, compilers that might be useful for your projects.

The IMPACT compiler was developed at the University of Illinois by Prof. Wen-mei Hwu's research group. It forms the cornerstone of compilers currently being used by Intel and HP for their IA-64-based machines. We will cover the VLIW and EPIC approach to instruction-level parallelism in class, and how techniques developed using the IMPACT compiler enable EPIC. A public version of the IMPACT compiler is available. A good starting point in using the IMPACT compiler is to read the overview provided with the public version.