Computer Science 237 Computer Organization Williams College Fall 2005

Announcements

• After you submit your microcode, you should join the CS Department to celebrate the end of the semester in the lounge at 2:30. Hot cider, candy canes, baked goods.
• Something is due on Friday.

Agenda

• Microcode questions/answers
• Remember: the final exam will be a take-home through the Registrar's office.

  What might I ask about?

  • memory organization, cache, virtual memory
  • RISC vs. CISC
  • pipelines
  • branch prediction
  • traps, interrupts, exceptions (though not at any deep level)
  • (Friday's upcoming) topics about current architectures
• Wrapping up cache memory
  • victim cache
  • multiprocessor issues - cache coherency
• Virtual memory
• Course Evaluations