Midterm Information:

• The midterm will be in class on February 28.
• Both exams will be open book and open notes. No communication devices (cellphones, PDAs, laptops, etc.) will be permitted. Calculators will be allowed.
• Two papers have been assigned for the midterm in addition to those that we have covered in class:
  • N. Jouppi, Architectural and organizational tradeoffs in the design of the MultiTitan CPU.
  • G. Hinton et al., 0.18 μm CMOS IA-32 microprocessor with a 4 GHz integerexecution unit.
• Here's a link to the 2002 midterm. The papers covered in the first half of the term back then were nearly completely different than what we've done this year. So, the questions are on different topics than this year's exam, but the format is similar.
• Solution of midterm

Final Exam Information:

• The final exam will be will be in class on February 28.
• The Final exam will be open book and open notes. No communication devices (cellphones, PDAs, laptops, etc.) will be permitted. Calculators will be allowed.
• One paper has been assigned for the final exam in addition to those that we have covered in class:
  • M.B. Taylor et al., Evaluation of the Raw microprocessor: an exposed-wire-delay architecture for ILP and streams.
  • While this is the only assigned paper, here are some other papers that provide some introductory material about the Raw architecture:
    • Baring it all to software: Raw machines
    • The Raw microprocessor: a computational fabric for software circuits and general-purpose programs