Computer Systems: Processors, Memory, Data (CS_M33)

Michaelmas Term 2000

Lecturer

Anton Setzer
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Wales Swansea
Singleton Park
Swansea
SA2 8PP,UK
Tel. (01792) 513368
Fax (01792) 295651

Slides, Handouts

For my students: Please don't print these files on departmental printers. Instead ask in the student secretary for a copy. To print out on ordinary printers costs, because of the cost of the toner, 5 to 10 times more than fotocopying, as done by the lecturer.

Slides used in the Course

Full Version.
For copyright reasons, only slides which don't contain some pictures are provided directly. To access the full version, you will need a password, which is the same for all my courses.
Please press the login button. You will be asked for a password. If your password is not correct, you will be redirected to a non-existing page.
Freely accessible version.
- Overview: (pdf, postscript (gzipped))
- Sec1 (pdf, postscript (gzipped))
- Sec2 (pdf, postscript (gzipped))
- Sec3 (pdf, postscript (gzipped))
- Sec4 (pdf, postscript (gzipped))
- Sec5 (pdf, postscript (gzipped))
- Sec6 (pdf, postscript (gzipped))
- Sec7 (pdf, postscript (gzipped))
- Sec7 (pdf, postscript (gzipped))
- Sec8 (pdf, postscript (gzipped))
- Sec9 (pdf, postscript (gzipped))
- Sec10 (pdf, postscript (gzipped);
- Repetition (pdf, postscript (gzipped))

Errata 1. Mistake is corrected in the WWW-version, but hint for coursework 1 might be useful (pdf, postscript (gzipped))
Tutorial on Addressing of Cache (pdf, postscript (gzipped))

Exam

Announcement regarding sample exam 1 and coureswork 2 (pdf, postscript (gzipped))
Sample exam 1 pdf, postscript (gzipped).
One question in sample exam 1 might be replaced by a question in sample exam 2 pdf, postscript (gzipped).
Solution of the sample exam pdf, postscript (gzipped).
Exam pdf, postscript (gzipped).
Solution of the exam pdf, postscript (gzipped).

Some Useful Links

Dictionaries, Terminology
- Britannia.com Good for looking up terminology
- Whatis?com Dictionary of IT-specific terms.
- Tom's hardware guide
- A complete illustrated guide to the PC hardware
- The extended ASCII chart
- A Glossary of Computer Oriented Acronyms
- Computer Organisation and Operating Systems FAQ
Books
- W. Stallings: Computer Organization and Architecture. Fifth Edition (lots of links)
- D. Patterson and J. Hennessy: Computer Organization and Design (lots of links)
- A. Tanenbaum: Structured Computer Organization (one simulator)
Simulators
- Microprocessor Simulator
Online Tutorials and indepth Information
- Assembly Languages
  - The art of assembly language programming.
- Instruction sets, Opcodes
  - Instruction Sets and Opcodes for Pentium Pro and others
- Specific Architectures
  - The Ithanium procssor family
    - Tutorial
  - Intel Technical Information (Instruction set and architecture of Intel Pentium[TM] Processors; information provided by Intel).
    - Organization of the Pipline
    - The superscalar intel pipeline
  - Intel MMX(TM) Technology- Introduction (Introduction to the Intel Architecture)
  - SPARC64-GP[tm] Processor
- Computer Arithmetic
  - The IEEE 754 floating oint standard
  - The IEEE Standard 754 Floating-Point
- Transistors
  - The transistor (Explanation of transistors and their history for non-specialists)
- History of Computing
  - Charles Babbage Center for the History of Computing
    - The Analytical Engine Describes the Analytical Machine by Babbage in detail.
    - Web Refernces
  - Generations through the history of computing
  - The virtual museum of computing
  - History of Computing Information (Mainly on the ENIAC).
  - The machine that changed the world
  - The virtual museum of computing
  - Early Calculators

Anton Setzer

Last modified: Tue May 2 22:49:23 BST 2006