Project and Homework Assignments

Homework #1: Pipeline Flow and Register Renaming

• Due Wednesday, September 28, 2006
• Homework #1 (in Word format)

Homework #2: Simulation Basics for SimpleScalar

• Due Wednesday, October 17, 2006
• Homework #2 (in PDF format)
• SimpleScalar Tool Set Tutorial

Homework #3: Simulating Data Prefetching in SimpleScalar

• Due Wednesday, November 14, 2006
• Homework #3 (in PDF format)
• Here's a good tutorial on Prefetching: When Caches Aren't Enough: Data Prefetching Techniques, by VanderWeil and Lilja, IEEE Computer, September 1997.

Final Project

• Final Project (in PDF format)
• Proposal due Wednesday, November 29, 2006
• Team paper presentations November 28, December 5, December 7, 2006
• Final project presentations Friday, December 15, 2006, from 9am-12pm
• Final writeup due Monday, December 18, 2006