William Stallings Computer Organization and Architecture
Chapter 2 Computer Evolution and Performance
ENIAC - background
Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer Eckert and Mauchly University of Pennsylvania Trajectory tables for weapons Started 1943 Finished 1946
Too late for war effort
Used until 1955
ENIAC - details
Decimal (not binary) 20 accumulators of 10 digits Programmed manually by switches 18,000 vacuum tubes 30 tons 15,000 square feet 140 kW power consumption 5,000 additions per second
von Neumann/Turing
Stored Program concept Main memory storing programs and data ALU operating on binary data Control unit interpreting instructions from memory and executing Input and output equipment operated by control unit Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies
IAS
Completed 1952
Structure of von Nuemann machine
Arithmetic and Logic Unit
Input Output Equipment
Main Memory
Program Control Unit
IAS - details
1000 x 40 bit words
Binary number 2 x 20 bit instructions
Set of registers (storage in CPU)
Memory Buffer Register Memory Address Register Instruction Register Instruction Buffer Register Program Counter Accumulator Multiplier Quotient
Structure of IAS - detail
Central Processing Unit Arithmetic and Logic Unit Accumulator MQ
Arithmetic & Logic Circuits MBR Instructions Main & Data Memory IBR IR PC MAR
Input Output Equipment
Control Circuits
Address
Program Control Unit
Commercial Computers
1947 - Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer) US Bureau of Census 1950 calculations Became part of Sperry-Rand Corporation Late 1950s - UNIVAC II
Faster More memory
IBM
Punched-card processing equipment 1953 - the 701
IBMs first stored program computer Scientific calculations
1955 - the 702
Business applications
Lead to 700/7000 series
Transistors
Replaced vacuum tubes Smaller Cheaper Less heat dissipation Solid State device Made from Silicon (Sand) Invented 1947 at Bell Labs William Shockley et al.
Transistor Based Computers
Second generation machines NCR & RCA produced small transistor machines IBM 7000 DEC - 1957
Produced PDP-1
Microelectronics
Literally - small electronics A computer is made up of gates, memory cells and interconnections These can be manufactured on a semiconductor e.g. silicon wafer
Generations of Computer
Vacuum tube - 1946-1957 Transistor - 1958-1964 Small scale integration - 1965 on
Up to 100 devices on a chip
Medium scale integration - to 1971
100-3,000 devices on a chip
Large scale integration - 1971-1977
3,000 - 100,000 devices on a chip
Very large scale integration - 1978 to date
100,000 - 100,000,000 devices on a chip
Ultra large scale integration
Over 100,000,000 devices on a chip
Moores Law
Increased density of components on chip Gordon Moore - cofounder of Intel Number of transistors on a chip will double every year Since 1970s development has slowed a little
Number of transistors doubles every 18 months
Cost of a chip has remained almost unchanged Higher packing density means shorter electrical paths, giving higher performance Smaller size gives increased flexibility Reduced power and cooling requirements Fewer interconnections increases reliability
Growth in CPU Transistor Count
IBM 360 series
1964 Replaced (& not compatible with) 7000 series First planned family of computers
Similar or identical instruction sets Similar or identical O/S Increasing speed Increasing number of I/O ports (i.e. more terminals) Increased memory size Increased cost
Multiplexed switch structure
DEC PDP-8
1964 First minicomputer (after miniskirt!) Did not need air conditioned room Small enough to sit on a lab bench $16,000
$100k+ for IBM 360
Embedded applications & OEM BUS STRUCTURE
DEC - PDP-8 Bus Structure
Console Controller
CPU
Main Memory
I/O Module
I/O Module
OMNIBUS
Semiconductor Memory
1970 Fairchild Size of a single core
i.e. 1 bit of magnetic core storage
Holds 256 bits Non-destructive read Much faster than core Capacity approximately doubles each year
Intel
1971 - 4004
First microprocessor All CPU components on a single chip 4 bit
Followed in 1972 by 8008
8 bit Both designed for specific applications
1974 - 8080
Intels first general purpose microprocessor
Speeding it up
Pipelining On board cache On board L1 & L2 cache Branch prediction Data flow analysis Speculative execution
Performance Mismatch
Processor speed increased Memory capacity increased Memory speed lags behind processor speed
DRAM and Processor Characteristics
Trends in DRAM use
Solutions
Increase number of bits retrieved at one time
Make DRAM wider rather than deeper
Change DRAM interface
Cache
Reduce frequency of memory access
More complex cache and cache on chip
Increase interconnection bandwidth
High speed buses Hierarchy of buses
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