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Dear FIX,
Welcome to Computer Architecture! As we kick off the term, I wanted to once again extend a warm welcome to all of you and express how excited I am to be able to share my love of computer architecture with such a large and diverse set of students. We will be opening up the first two 80-minute lectures of the term this evening (Friday) at 11:59PM EDT and we have already posted the class's first problem set. I wanted to remind everyone that it is not too late to sign up for the class, so please encourage your friends and colleagues to enroll.
The class discussion forums have been opened and I have seen that a fair number of you have already started to form study groups, which is great! Feel free to use the forums to ask questions and try to understand the problem sets and material in detail as the term goes on. Class Teaching Assistants (Staff) and I will be periodically checking the forums, but your fellow students will also be a critical resource for understanding the material. We will use the forums to report technical problems with the Coursera platform as well. One thing I do ask is that you do not discuss the exams until after the due date.
The Course Schedule link has been updated to include a detailed plan of the topics that we will be investigating in this course, but roughly, we will be learning about how to design modern day microprocessors. Over the next ten weeks, we will explore topics including superscalar microprocessors, out-of-order microprocessors, very long instruction word (VLIW) microprocessors, advanced cache design, advanced branch predictor design, vector microprocessors including some discussion of GPUs, and even discuss multicore processor design including interconnect and memory issues.
We will be releasing lectures and problems sets for each week on Fridays at 11:59PM EDT. This course will have five problem sets throughout the term which will be self evaluated and two exams which will be evaluated by your fellow students. Each week we will release two new 80-minute lectures as well as problem sets every other week. The lectures are segmented into smaller, topic-oriented, segments (typically 4-7 per lecture). You can watch these videos online or download them for offline viewing. We are including the in-lecture questions as a separate file that can be downloaded for use by those of you selecting the offline viewing method. The lecture slides (in PDF) will be attached to the lecture segment that the slides are first used in. Please note that the slide decks are organized around logical topic and do not always align with lecture boundaries, therefore some lectures may have two slide decks.
I am looking forward to a great semester and sincerely hope that this course will deepen your understanding of computer architecture and computing systems as well as encourage you to investigate computing further.
Sincerely,
David Wentzlaff
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Princeton University
Welcome to Computer Architecture! As we kick off the term, I wanted to once again extend a warm welcome to all of you and express how excited I am to be able to share my love of computer architecture with such a large and diverse set of students. We will be opening up the first two 80-minute lectures of the term this evening (Friday) at 11:59PM EDT and we have already posted the class's first problem set. I wanted to remind everyone that it is not too late to sign up for the class, so please encourage your friends and colleagues to enroll.
The class discussion forums have been opened and I have seen that a fair number of you have already started to form study groups, which is great! Feel free to use the forums to ask questions and try to understand the problem sets and material in detail as the term goes on. Class Teaching Assistants (Staff) and I will be periodically checking the forums, but your fellow students will also be a critical resource for understanding the material. We will use the forums to report technical problems with the Coursera platform as well. One thing I do ask is that you do not discuss the exams until after the due date.
The Course Schedule link has been updated to include a detailed plan of the topics that we will be investigating in this course, but roughly, we will be learning about how to design modern day microprocessors. Over the next ten weeks, we will explore topics including superscalar microprocessors, out-of-order microprocessors, very long instruction word (VLIW) microprocessors, advanced cache design, advanced branch predictor design, vector microprocessors including some discussion of GPUs, and even discuss multicore processor design including interconnect and memory issues.
We will be releasing lectures and problems sets for each week on Fridays at 11:59PM EDT. This course will have five problem sets throughout the term which will be self evaluated and two exams which will be evaluated by your fellow students. Each week we will release two new 80-minute lectures as well as problem sets every other week. The lectures are segmented into smaller, topic-oriented, segments (typically 4-7 per lecture). You can watch these videos online or download them for offline viewing. We are including the in-lecture questions as a separate file that can be downloaded for use by those of you selecting the offline viewing method. The lecture slides (in PDF) will be attached to the lecture segment that the slides are first used in. Please note that the slide decks are organized around logical topic and do not always align with lecture boundaries, therefore some lectures may have two slide decks.
I am looking forward to a great semester and sincerely hope that this course will deepen your understanding of computer architecture and computing systems as well as encourage you to investigate computing further.
Sincerely,
David Wentzlaff
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Princeton University
More FIX on the NET @ FIX University Cultural Campus
Welcome to Spring Semester 2013
The Best College Radio Stations
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