G5005 Computer Systems Architecture

Emmet Spier. Room 5C13 x3594. emmet@sussex.ac.uk
Office hour: Thursday 11-12

LecturesExample Classes
Monday 11am, Chichester LT
Thursday 11am, Pevensey 1 - 1A7
(Group 1) Monday 12pm
(Group 2) Monday 3am
(Group 3) Wednesday 11am
(Group 4) Wednesday 12pm

Course Information

Initial course handout, book list, syllabus etc [pdf]
Course notes: 244 A4 pages (12Mb) [pdf]; 4up (61 pages, 11Mb) [pdf]; 9up (28 pages, 8Mb) [pdf]
Revision lecture (8 pages, 250k) [pdf]
[Slides of FOR and WHILE loops in MIPS assember]

The course notes are only accessible from the campus network. If you wish to access them offsite then you can create a port-tunnel from your system to the campus network. This can be done by (e.g.) using putty and creating a tunnel [like this] through the teaching unix server 'unix.tn.informatics.scitech.sussex.ac.uk'. You will then be able to access the file from the informatics website using 'http://localhost:8088/file_path'. Fuller details can be found [here]


Example Class handouts


Useful Links

Course textbook website
SPIM:The MIPS microprocessor simulator program used in the assignments and its documentation. [Documentation, local link]

[Several helpful HTML documents about using COGS facilities and UNIX]
[An Emacs reference sheet]
[An ASCII table in hex and octal]
An IBM journal issue on the design of the POWER4 processor [link].
An piece of technical jounalism on the design of the newly announced POWERPC 970 [link].

Emmet Spier