Computer Science 324 Computer Architecture Mount Holyoke College Fall 2007

Agenda

• Announcements
  • Baking with Computer Scientists! 4:00 PM Tuesday
  • Final exam is now a take-home, out Wednesday 12/12, due back Wednesday 12/19
• Lecture assignment recap
• Cache wrapup
• Virtual memory
• Final exam primary topics
  • building data paths and control systems
    • single-cycle datapath
    • single-cycle control
    • multi-cycle datapath
    • finite state control
    • microprogrammed control
  • exceptions
  • RISC vs. CISC
  • pipelines
  • memory hierarchies
• Course evaluations

Lecture Assignment

No new readings, of course!

Instead of a lecture assignment, please take a look at the practice exam questions I'll hand out in class. We can discuss these during our last meeting on Wednesday.