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CE-201

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
AND ORGANIZATION
Instructor
Dr. Ali Ahmed
Assistant Professor at Usman Institute of Technology.
SPRING 2017

Lecture 1: Introduction and Basics 1


About Me
• Ph.D. in Electronics and Communication from Hanyang University,
South Korea.
• Masters in Electronics and Communication (MS) from Hanyang
University, South Korea.
• Masters in Information Security (MS) from NUST, SEECS, Islamabad.
• Bachelor in Electronics (B.E.) from NED University of Engg. And Tech.,
Karachi.
• Research interests: Computer Architecture, Hardware Designing,
Information Security, Digital and Analog Electronics, FPGA and IoT.

Lecture 1: Introduction and Basics 2


About My Class (Homework 0):
All grading predicated on receipt of Homework 0.
• Q1: What is your name and roll no.?
• Q2: What you want to achieve from CE 201?
• Q3: Do you want some fun with problem driven projects in CE 201? Want to
create something? “Or” Want to study subject theoretically only?
• Q4: What is your last semester GPA?
• Q5: How do you rank your knowledge about the subjects given below? Give
your rating out of 5 (5 means excellent, 1 means poor)
1. EL 211 (Digital logic Design)
2. El 125 (Programming Fundamentals)
3. C++ or C programming language.
HOMEWORK IS DUE TOMORROW, PLEASE SUBMIT IT THROUGH YOUR CR.

Lecture 1: Introduction and Basics 3


What Do I Expect From You?
• Required background: EL 211 (digital logic design), EL-125 (Programming Fundamentals),
Knowledge of C or C++ Programing Language.
• Learn the material thoroughly
• attend lectures, do the readings, do the homeworks
• Do the work & work hard
• Ask questions, take notes, participate
• Perform the assigned readings
• Come to class on time
• Start early – do not procrastinate
• If you want feedback, come to office hours

• Remember “Chance favors the prepared mind.” (Pasteur)


Courtesy: Prof. Onur Mutlu, CMU Lecture 1: Introduction and Basics
University
Course Books and Reading materials
• Computer organization and Architecture Designing for Performance
by William Stalling. (Latest edition).
• David A Patterson, John L. Hennessy. Computer Organization and
Architecture. (Latest edition).
• David A Paterson, John L. Hennessy. “ Computer Architecture: A
Quantitative Approach (Latest Edition), Morgan Kaufmann.

Lecture 1: Introduction and Basics 5


Tentative Course Plan:
• Lecture 1 - 12: Overview: Introduction and Basics, Computer Evolution
and their Performance, Instruction Set Architectures. Etc.
• Lecture 13- 24: CPU Design: Memory System, Cache Memory, Different
Designs of Cache Memory Systems, Virtual memory Systems, Address
mapping using Pages. Etc.
• Lecture 25- 36: Pipelining and Parallelism: Instruction pipelining, super
scaling and threading, instruction level parallelism, introduction to
parallel processing, branch Prediction, pre-Fetching and multithreading.
• Lecture 37- 42: Input Output and Research Trends: Issues and trends in
current Computer Architecture, Problem based learning, Revisions

Lecture 1: Introduction and Basics 6


Some Goals of CE-201
Teach/enable/empower you to:
• Understand how a computing platform (processor + memory + interconnect)
works
• Understand how decisions made in hardware affect the software/programmer
as well as hardware designer.
• Think critically (in solving problems).
• Think broadly across the levels of transformation.
• Understand how to analyze and make tradeoffs in design.
Summary : “students will be able to describe the major concepts, theoretical
perspectives, and historical trends within a Computer Architecture and
Organization.”
Lecture 1: Introduction and Basics 7
Evaluation
• Assignments
• Quizzes
• Project
• Mid – Term
• Finals

Lecture 1: Introduction and Basics 8


Question: What is this?

ourtesy: Prof. Onur Mutlu, CMU University Lecture 1: Introduction and Basics 9
Answer: Masterpiece of A Famous
Architect

Courtesy: Prof. Onur Mutlu, CMU UniversityLecture 1: Introduction and Basics 10


Critical thinking !!!
• Appreciate the importance of out-of-the-box and creative thinking.
• Think about tradeoffs in the design of the building.
• Strengths, weaknesses
• Derive principles on your own for good design and innovation.

Courtesy:
Lecture Prof.
1: Introduction Onur
and Basics Mutlu, CMU University 11
Find the difference of this and that?

rtesy: Prof. Onur Mutlu, CMU University Lecture 1: Introduction and Basics 12
How Was Wright Able To Design
Falling water?
• Can have many guesses
• (Ultra) hard work, perseverance, dedication (over decades)
• Experience of decades
• Creativity
• Out-of-the-box thinking
• Principled design
• A good understanding of past designs
• Good judgment and intuition
• Strong combination of skills (math, architecture, art, …)
• …

• (You will be exposed to and hopefully develop/enhance many of these skills in


this course)
Courtesy: Prof. Onur Mutlu, CMU University
Lecture 1: Introduction and Basics 13
A quote from architect himself
• “architecture […] based upon principle, and not upon precedent”

ourtesy: Prof. Onur Mutlu, CMU University Lecture 1: Introduction and Basics 14
Principled Design

Courtesy:
Lecture Prof.
1: Introduction Onur
and Basics Mutlu, CMU University 15
rtesy: Prof. Onur Mutlu, CMU University Lecture 1: Introduction and Basics 16
Major High-level goal of this course
• Understand the principles
• Understand the precedents

• Based on such understanding:


• Enable you to evaluate tradeoffs of different designs and ideas
• Enable you to develop principled designs
• Enable you to develop novel, out-of-the-box designs

• The focus is on:


• Principles, precedents, and how to use them for new designs in Computer
Architecture.
ourtesy: Prof. Onur Mutlu, CMU University Lecture 1: Introduction and Basics 17
Role of (Computer) Architect

from Yale Patt’s lecture notes

ourtesy: Prof. Onur Mutlu, CMU University Lecture 1: Introduction and Basics 18
Role of the Computer Architect
• Look backward (to the past)
• Understand tradeoffs and designs, upsides/downsides, past workloads. Analyze and evaluate
the past.
• Look forward (to the future)
• Be the dreamer and create new designs. Listen to dreamers.
• Push the state of the art. Evaluate new design choices.
• Look up (towards problems in the computing stack)
• Understand important problems and their nature.
• Develop architectures and ideas to solve important problems.
• Look down (towards device/circuit technology)
• Understand the capabilities of the underlying technology.
• Predict and adapt to the future of technology (you are designing for N years ahead). Enable the
future technology.
Courtesy: Prof. Onur Mutlu, CMU UniversityLecture 1: Introduction and Basics 19
Takeaways
• Being an architect is not easy
• You need to consider many things in designing a new system + have good
intuition/insight into ideas/tradeoffs

• But, it is fun and can be very technically rewarding


• And, enables a great future
• E.g., many scientific and everyday-life innovations would not have been possible
without architectural innovation that enabled very high performance systems
• E.g., your mobile phones

• This course will teach you how to become a good computer architect
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