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Lecture 9: Exam Review - Last Time: Format

The document provides an exam review for a computer architecture course. It outlines the format of the exam, which will be open book and notes and last 75 minutes. It will consist of 4 sections covering topics from all course material. The document reviews key topics students should know, including performance metrics like Amdahl's law, ISA design principles, data representation, and computer arithmetic. It also lists skills students should be able to demonstrate, such as reasoning about performance, compiling code, and manipulating MIPS instructions and data types.

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Lecture 9: Exam Review - Last Time: Format

The document provides an exam review for a computer architecture course. It outlines the format of the exam, which will be open book and notes and last 75 minutes. It will consist of 4 sections covering topics from all course material. The document reviews key topics students should know, including performance metrics like Amdahl's law, ISA design principles, data representation, and computer arithmetic. It also lists skills students should be able to demonstrate, such as reasoning about performance, compiling code, and manipulating MIPS instructions and data types.

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Lecture 9: Exam Review

Last Time
Computers have finite resources, but real numbers are infinite
Use of 2s complement & IEEE 754 FP conventions standardize
meaning of math on computers
Optimize data path of add, multiply, and divide to reduce
critical path by performing operations in parallel
Context determines the meaning of bits
Floating point instructions, integer instructions
Today
Exam review
Format
Topics
Questions

UTCS 352 Lecture 9 1

Format

Open book and open notes


including homework, notes, printed lectures, etc.
Calculator (No other electronic devices)
75 minutes
4 Sections
Section 1: multiple choice, true/false, short answer
Topics will range over all the material
Section 2 through 4: multiple parts on a single topic
Topics: Amdahls law, Performance, ISA design, MIPS
code, floating point,

UTCS 352 Lecture 9 2

1
Things you should know
What is performance?
Amdahls law, optimizing an implementation/ISA
Concurrency, throughput
What is an ISA vs an implementation?
computation, memory state, control
What is RISC, CISC?
ISA design goals and principles
Registers vs memory
Execution & Compiler Basics
Interpreting Bits
Data representation (char, int, floating point), bit layout,
addressing, instructions
bit, byte, word, hexadecimal, computer arithmetic, rounding

UTCS 352 Lecture 9 3

Things you should be able to do

Reason about performance


Act like a compiler
Read and write MIPS instructions
Convert between data types

UTCS 352 Lecture 9 4

2
Questions & Answer

UTCS 352 Lecture 9 5

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