University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

ECE 511: Computer Architecture

Fall 2006

0. Information Sheet

   • Also available as Word .doc
   • Out: Wed, Aug 23
   • Due: Wed, Aug 30

1. Homework 1

   • Out: Wed, Aug 30
   • Due: Wed, Sep 06

2. Homework 2

   • Out: Wed, Sep 06
   • Due: Wed, Sep 20

3. Homework 3

   • Out: Wed, Sep 20
   • Due: Mon, Oct 09

4. Homework 4

   • Out: Wed, Oct 04
   • Due: Wed, Oct 25

5. Simulator for Project, with:

   • 1. Renamer with choice of RRAT(use -p4_renaming) and checkpointing(default option, called alpha_renaming)
   • 2. GSHARE bpred with ghist repair
   • 3. 12 SPEC2K int benchmarks... refer to full_ece511_r1579/apps/run_all for usage
   • Download(38MB)

6. Simulator Compiler toolchain for Project:

   • 1. Documentation (Talk to the TA for usage help)
   • Download(100MB) (Talk to the TA for usage help)

7. Superscalar Simulator with arch-trace:

   • Download (Talk to the TA for usage help)
   • Useful options: -use_arch_trace -max_runahead 50000 -use_oracle_bpred -oracular_bp_correction_ratio 1

Helpful hints for the homework for those patient enough to scroll all the way down here