Parallel System Architectures 2017
Lab Assignments

Info and Schedule:

• Lecture website
• Datanose schedule

Lab Assistants:

• Jun Xiao
• Simon Polstra

Mailing list:

Most communication will take place via the mailing list. Make sure you are subscribed. The mailing list can be found here.

Assignment 1:
Cache Coherency

Implement some L1 Datacaches in SystemC. Demonstrate the workings and write a report.

Deadlines:

Hand in your code and report via blackboard.

Resources:

You can download the files you need for the first assignment below. SystemC is easy to install and can be downloaded using the last link in the list, or directly from the SystemC website. We also hope to have SystemC installed on the VU lab machines by the beginning of the lab.

It is recommended that you first do the tutorial before proceeding with the assignments.

• Tutorial
• Assignment
• Assignment diagrams
• Framework
• 1666-2011 IEEE Standard SystemC® Language Reference Manual
• SystemC 2.3.1a
• TLM version assignment 1

Assignment 2:
Branch predicion

Implement some branch prediction algorithms in C. Demonstrate the workings and write a report.

Deadlines:

Hand in your code and report via blackboard.

Resources:

You can download the files for the second assignment below.

• Assignment
• Framework
• A Comparison of Dynamic Branch Predictors that use Two Levels of Branch History
• Two-Level Adaptive Training Branch Prediction
• Combining Branch Predictors
• Improving the Accuracy of Dynamic Branch Prediction Using Branch Correlation