Announcements
Contact Information
Course Description
Lecture Notes
Homework and Quizzes
Exams
Previous offerings

Announcements

• 01/17/2022 Welcome to EECS645 for Spring 2022!
• 01/20/2022 Quiz 01 solutions uploaded.
• 01/25/2022 Quiz 02 solutions uploaded.
• 01/28/2022 Quiz 03 solutions uploaded.
• 02/01/2022 Quiz 04 solutions uploaded.
• 02/05/2022 Homework #1 uploaded.
• 02/10/2022 Quiz 05/06/07 solutions uploaded.
• 02/10/2022 Homework #2 uploaded.
• 02/15/2022 Homework #1 solution uploaded.
• 02/15/2022 Quiz 08 solutions uploaded.
• 02/17/2022 Midterm I review video uploaded.
• 02/21/2022 Homework #2 solution uploaded.
• 02/22/2022 Midterm I solution uploaded.
• 02/27/2022 Recording of Lecture 08 uploaded.
• 03/03/2022 Quiz 09 solutions uploaded.
• 03/03/2022 Recording of Lecture 10 uploaded.
• 03/03/2022 Homework #3 uploaded.
• 03/07/2022 Quiz 10 solutions uploaded.
• 03/08/2022 Recording of Lecture 10 (second part) uploaded.
• 03/10/2022 Homework #4 (optional) uploaded.
• 03/31/2022 Quiz 14 solutions uploaded.
• 04/05/2022 Quiz 15 solutions uploaded.
• 04/07/2022 Homework #6 (optional) uploaded.
• 04/07/2022 Quiz 16 solutions uploaded.
• 04/09/2022 Homework #5 solutions uploaded.
• 04/11/2022 Recording of Midterm II review uploaded.
• 04/17/2022 Midterm II solutions uploaded.
• 04/25/2022 Homework #7 uploaded.
• 04/27/2022 Homework #8 (gem5 assignment) uploaded.
• 04/29/2022 Quiz 18, 19, 20 uploaded.
• 05/03/2022 Homework #7 solutions uploaded.
• 05/03/2022 You can use grade calc for calculating your EECS645 letter grade.
• 05/04/2022 Homework #9 (optional) uploaded.
• 05/07/2022 Quiz 20 solutions uploaded.
• 05/10/2022 Final exam solution uploaded.

Contact List

Instructor

Prof. Mohammad Alian
Office: 2022EH
Office Hours: Tu,Th 15:00 - 15:45 PM
Email: alian@ku.edu

Grader(s)

Dinesh Ram Kota
Email: dineshramkota@ku.edu

Naga Chandrika Indlamuri
Email: cindlamuri@ku.edu

Course Description

Lecture time: Tu, Th 4:00 - 5:15 PM

Class: LEEP2 G415

This is an introductory course on the design of single-chip microprocessors and systems. The course covers materials including instruction set architecture, datapath design, control path design, pipelining, multiple-issue superscalar processors, out-of-order processors, memory hierarchy, memory management, multicore, caches, memory technologies, data-parallel architectures, interrupts, and I/O structures.

Refer to the course syllabus for additional details

We use Canvas for discussion and course announcements. The lecture notes and other course materials will be uploaded to the course website.

There is a required textbook that you can freely access online in KU library website

Lecture Notes/Videos

Course Calandar

• Lecture 01: Introduction [PPT]
• Lecture 02: Performance and cost [PPT]
• Lecture 03: Benchmarks [PPT]
• Lecture 04: ISA [PPT]
• Lecture 05: ISA2 [PPT]
• Lecture 06: Arithmetic I [PPT]
• Lecture 07: Arithmetic II [PPT]
• Lecture 08: Synchronous Logic [PPT][Video],discussion[pdf]
• Lecture 09: Processor Single Cycle [PPT][Video1][Video2]
• Lecture 10: Processor Single Cycle II [PPT][Video]
• Lecture 11: Processor Multi Cycle [PPT][Video]
• Lecture 12: Pipelining - Intro [PPT]
• Lecture 13: Pipelining - Datapath and Ctrl [PPT][Video Doc Camera][Video screen capture]
• Lecture 14: Pipelining - Data Hazards [PPT]
• Lecture 15: Pipelining - Ctrl Hazards [PPT]
• Lecture 16: Memory - caches [PPT]
• Lecture 17: Virtual Memory [PPT]

Homework and Quizzes

Exams

Midterm 1 is scheduled for Tuesday February 22nd from 4:00PM - 5:30PM. Materials covered: until Lecture 07 (including). Midterm I Review [video], Midterm I Solution[pdf]

Midterm 2 is scheduled for Tuesday April 12th from 4:00PM - 5:30PM. Materials covered: until Lecture 12 (including). Midterm II Review[video], Midterm II Solution[pdf]

Final exam is on Monday May 9th from 1:30PM - 4:00PM. The exam will cover all the topics discussed during the semester. Solution pdf

Previous offerings