Computer Organization TI1400 Alexandru Iosup (lecturer) Parallel and Distributed Systems Course website:

Next Lecture: Room EWI CZ-A on April 24 Changed from EWI CZ-B We stay in this room! © Alexander Pols, 2012.

TU-Delft TI1400/12-PDS Quiz Mar 22 Excellent: Kevin, Remco, and Tim … extra lectures? Good, but … Karnaugh maps? (43%) Decent, but high chance to FAIL mid-term exam (34%) Insufficient, very high chance to FAIL mid-term exam (14%) 3

Mid-Term Exam: March 29, 2012 Voluntary, but helps 10 multiple-choice questions, up to 3,000 points Similar to end-lecture quiz, but longer (and tougher?) Automatic use of best score for first 10 questions from mid-term and final exams (You can only win!) Prepare during next Tutorial (March 22), Take during Tutorial after (March 29) Questions change between mid-term and final exam (Unlike last year!)

Mid-Term Exam: March 29, 2012 [1/4] Po-ta-to, Po-tah-to Q: What happens to terms in Dutch? After all, you did lecture in English?! A: Goede vraag! Most terms are in English anyway Every question includes both Dutch and English version The Dutch version has been checked by a native Dutch speaker

Mid-Term Exam: March 29, 2012 [2/4] Our Kind of Questions Q: What kind of questions will you ask? A: In principle, any kind of questions. However, think about all those end-lecture tests: Four choices, answer not be obvious (unless you learned the tricks) Excercises that look like much work aren’t (unless you didn’t learn the tricks) Q: How difficult? A: Enough to test your skills. Hopefully enough to separate. Difficult for the easy stuff, mid-level for difficult stuff

Mid-Term Exam: March 29, 2012 [3/4] Chapters for First Two Lectures Q: Which chapters for the mid-term exam? A: see Blackboard or web site for course schedule: Lectures 1.1 and 1.2 cover … Hamacher A.1 to A.14 Lectures 2.1 and 2.2 cover … Hamacher 2.1, 6.1,

Mid-Term Exam: March 29, 2012 [4/4] Topics for First Two Lectures Q: Which chapters topics for the mid-term exam? A: see Blackboard or web site for course lectures: Lectures 1.1 and 1.2 cover … Basic Concepts, Digital Logic (Karnaugh maps/diagrams), Memory Elements, Finite State Machines Lectures 2.1 and 2.2 cover … Number representation (SM, 1C, 2C, Excess-x, Fixed point, Floating point, …), Arithmetic (…), Conversion (SM to 1C, Fixed to Float, Rounding, …)

TU-Delft TI1400/12-PDS 9 Course Material (The Textbook) Reading the Book=Being Prepared Which chapter(s) for today? Class Material V.C. Hamacher, Z.G. Vranesic, S.G. Zaky, Computer Organization, 2002, McGraw-Hill, 5 th Ed. Reader: Computer Organization, January 2007 Lecture Slides ATTN: textbook via CH (second-hand)—contact Jolien de Haas Amazon.com or bol.com

TU-Delft TI1400/12-PDS The Preaching Slide Trends in Computing, or What Should We Be Learning About? Frontier of computing through conferences and patents Access to conferences High Performance Distributed Computing June 18—22, 2012 in Delft Main conference: Trends workshop: 10

Conceptual Map of TI1400/2012 L3. ISAs L5. IA-32/MIPS L8. Pipelining + Perf.L9. Large Sys. You are here L0. Introduction Rd. Prog. Principles L6. Basic Processing Unit L4. Assembler L7.1. Memory + Perf. L1. Digital LogicL2. Digital Data L7.1. I/O + OS

TU-Delft TI1400/12-PDS Questions? Course website: