Announcements

• Projects Demonstrations will be held in class on Monday
  • Have demos ready to run before you arrive
  • Practice demonstration. You must complete in 10 minutes.

• Congratulations on your hard work throughout this semester

• Final Exam
  • All material covered in class

Hardware Methods for improving CPU Performance

• Increasing execution speed
  • Pipeline
    • Avoiding Data dependencies
    • Branch Prediction
  • Superscaler execution
    • Pair Integer/Floating point operations
    • Utilize multiple functional units on CPU

• Cache Techniques
  • Working set
  • Memory Cache

• Parallel Computing
  • Symetric Multiprocessing
  • Distributed Computing

Applications of your CSE306 Knowledge

• Hardware Design
  • CPU Architectures
  • I/O Systems
  • Networks

• Operating Systems
  • Use interrupts swtich between processes
  • Preserve process state (registers, memory)
  • Preemptive Multitasking

• Algorithms
  • Minimize Running time vs. problem size: O(n) Analysis

• Compilers
  • Automate generation of assembly code

• Graphics
  • Technqiues for rendering 3D views
  • NCSA Cave

• Networking
  • Exchanging data between CPUs

• Digital Signal Processing
  • Specialize CPU optimized for numeric transforms

• Embedded Control
  • Medical/Automotive/Consumer electronics
  • Network appliances

Where can I go from here ..

• Classes
  • Computer Architecture
  • Computer Networks
  • Networking protocols and software
  • Circuit Implementations

• CS Classes
  • Data structures (trees, sorting)
  • Algorithms (DFS, BFS, ..)
  • Operating Systems
  • Compilers
  • Computer Graphics / BSP trees / Ray tracing
  • Acceleration of algorithms in hardware

• Internships
  • Hardware: Intel/AMD/National/Digital/HP
  • Software: Microsoft/Netscape/SGI/Sun
  • Networking: Cisco/Nortel/Qualcomm/3Com
  • Graphics: Matrox/S3
  • Embedded: Motorola/TI
  • Peripherals: Adaptec
  • More..

• Machine Problem Development
  • New machine problems are needed for Spring 2005
  • Opportunity to earn $200

• Grader Positions
  • Positions available for Spring 2005 (1 year from now)
  • Opportunity to actively participate in learning process