CDA 5155 and 4150

CDA 5155 and 4150

Computer Architecture

Week 2: 2 September 2014

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Goals of the course

• Advanced coverage of computer architecture – general purpose processors, embedded processors,historically significant processors, design tools.– Instruction set architecture– Processor microarchitecture– Systems architecture

• Memory systems• I/O systems

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Teaching Staff

• Professor Gary Tyson– PhD: University of California – Davis

– Faculty jobs:• California State University Sacramento: 1987 - 1990

• University of California – Davis: 1993 - 1994

• University of California – Riverside: 1995 - 1996

• University of Michigan: 1997 - 2003

• Florida State University: 2003 – present

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Grading in 5155 (Fall’14)

Programming assignments In-order pipeline simulation (10%) Out-of-order pipeline simulation (10%)

Exams (2 @ 25% each) In class, 75 minutes

Team Project (20%) 3 or 4 students per team

Class Participation (10%)

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Time Management

• 3 hours/week lecture– This is probably the most important time

• 2 hours/week reading– Hennessy/Patterson:

– Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach

• 3-5 hours/week exam prep• 5+ hours/week Project (1/3 semester)

Total: ~10-15 hours per week.

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Tentative Course Timeline

project

Exam

Due Dates

Research TopicsNov 2514

Research TopicsDec 215

Embedded processorsNov 1813

Embedded processorsNov 1112

Multiprocessor, MultithreadingNov 411

Cache design, VMOct 2810

Cache designOct 219

Oct 148

Advanced pipelines

Advanced pipelines

Oct 77

Dynamic SchedulingSept 306

Dynamic SchedulingSept 235

Compilers, VLIWSept 164

Superscalar, ExceptionsSept 93

Pipelining, Branch PredictionSept 22

Performance, ISA, PipeliningAug 281

NotesHolidaysTopicDateWeek

Exam

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Web Resources

Course Web Page: http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~tyson/courses/CDA5155

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprocessor

Wisconsin Architecture Page: http://arch-www.cs.wisc.edu/home

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprocessor

http://arch-www.cs.wisc.edu/home

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Levels of Abstraction

• Problem/Idea (English?)

• Algorithm (pseudo-code)

• High-Level languages (C, Verilog)

• Assembly instructions (OS calls)

• Machine instructions (I/O interfaces)

• Microarchitecture/organization (block diagrams)

• Logic level: gates, flip-flops (schematic, HDL)

• Circuit level: transistors, sizing (schematic, HDL)

• Physical: VLSI layout, feature size, cabling, PC boards.

What are the abstractions at each level?

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At what level do I perform a square root? Recursion?

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Who/what translates from one level to the next?

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Role of Architecture

• Responsible for hardware specification:– Instruction set design

• Also responsible for structuring the overall implementation– Microarchitectural design.

• Interacts with everyone– mainly compiler and logic level designers.

• Cannot do a good job without knowledge of both sides

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Design Issues: Performance

• Get acceptable performance out of system.– Scientific: floating point throughput, memory&disk

intensive, predictable

– Commercial: string handling, disk (databases), predictable

– Multimedia: specific data types (pixels), network? Predictable?

– Embedded: what do you mean by performance?

– Workstation: Maybe all of the above, maybe not

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Calculating Performance

• Execution time is often the best metric• Throughput (tasks/sec) vs. latency (sec/task)• Benchmarks: what are the tasks?

– What I care about!

– Representative programs (SPEC, Linpack)

– Kernels: representative code fragments

– Toy programs: useful for testing end-conditions

– Synthetic programs: does nothing but with a representative instruction mix.

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Design Issues: Cost

• Processor– Die size, packaging, heat sink? Gold connectors?

– Support: fan, connectors, motherboard specifications, etc.

• Calculating processor cost:– Cost of device = (die + package + testing) / yield

– Die cost = wafer cost / good die yield• Good die yield related to die size and defect density

– Support costs: direct costs (components, labor), indirect costs ( sales, service, R&D)

– Total costs amortized over number of systems sold(PC vs NASA)

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Other design issues

• Some applications care about other design issues.• NASA deep space mission

– Reliability: software and hardware (radiation hardening)

• AMD

– Code compatibility • ARM

– Power

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A Quantitative Approach

• Hardware systems performance is generally easy to quantify– Machine A is 10% faster than Machine B– Of course Machine B’s advertising will show

the opposite conclusion

• Many software systems tend to have much more subjective performance evaluations.

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Measuring Performance

• Total Execution Time:– A is 3 times faster than B for programs P1,P2

– Issue: Emphasizes long running programs

1

i=1

n

n Σ Timei

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• Weighted Execution Time:

– What if P1 is executed far more frequently?

i=1

n

∑ Weighti X Timei

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• Normalized Execution Time:– Compare machine performance to a reference

machine and report a ratio.• SPEC ratings measure relative performance to a

reference machine.

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Amdahl’s Law

• Rule of Thumb: Make the common case faster

(Attack longest running part until it is no longer) repeat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_lawhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law




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Instruction Set Design

• Software Systems: named variables; complex semantics.

• Hardware systems: tight timing requirements; small storage structures; simple semantics

• Instruction set: the interface between very different software and hardware systems

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Design decisions

• How much “state” is in the microarchitecture?– Registers; Flags; IP/PC

• How is that state accessed/manipulated?– Operand encoding

• What commands are supported?– Opcode; opcode encoding

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Design Challenges: or why is architecture still relevant?

• Clock frequency is increasing– This changes the number of levels of gates that

can be completed each cycle so old designs don’t work.

– It also tend to increase the ratio of time spent on wires (fixed speed of light)

• Power– Faster chips are hotter; bigger chips are hotter

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Design Challenges (cont)

• Design Complexity– More complex designs to fix frequency/power issues

leads to increased development/testing costs

– Failures (design or transient) can be difficult to understand (and fix)

• We seem far less willing to live with hardware errors (e.g. FDIV) than software errors – which are often dealt with through upgrades – that we

pay for!)

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Techniques for Encoding Operands

• Explicit operands:– Includes a field to specify which state data is

referenced– Example: register specifier

• Implicit operands:– All state data can be inferred from the opcode– Example: function return (CISC-style)

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Accumulator

• Architectures with one implicit register– Acts as source and/or destination– One other source explicit

• Example: C = A + B– Load A // (Acc)umulator = A– Add B // Acc = Acc + B– Store C // C = Acc

Ref: “Instruction Level Distributed Processing: Adapting to Shifting Technology”

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Stack

• Architectures with implicit “stack”– Acts as source(s) and/or destination

– Push and Pop operations have 1 explicit operand

• Example: C = A + B– Push A // Stack = {A}

– Push B // Stack = {A, B}

– Add // Stack = {A+B}

– Pop C // C = A+B ; Stack = {}

Compact encoding; may require more instructions though

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Registers

• Most general (and common) approach– Small array of storage

– Explicit operands (register file index)

• Example: C = A + BRegister-memory load/store

Load R1, A Load R1, A

Load R2, B

Add R3, R1, B Add R3, R1, R2

Store R3, C Store R3, C

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Memory

• Big array of storage– More complex ways of indexing than registers

• Build addressing modes to support efficient translation of software abstractions

• Uses less space in instruction than 32-bit immediate field

A[i]; use base (i) + displacement (A) (scaled?)

a.ptr; use base (a) + displacement (ptr)

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Addressing modes

Register Add R4, R3

Immediate Add R4, #3

Base/Displacement Add R4, 100(R1)

Register Indirect Add R4, (R1)

Indexed Add R4, (R1+R2)

Direct Add R4, (1001)

Memory Indirect Add R4, @(R3)

Autoincrement Add R4, (R2)+

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Other Memory Issues

What is the size of each element in memory?

0x000 Byte

Half word

Word

0x000

0x000

0-255

0 - 65535

0 - ~4B

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Other Memory Issues

Big-endian or Little-endian? Store 0x114488FF

0x000 11

44

88

FF

Points to most significant byte

0x000 FF

88

44

11

Points to least significant byte

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Other Memory Issues

Non-word loads? ldb R3, (000)

0x000 11

44

88

FF

00 00 00 11

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Other Memory Issues

Non-word loads? ldb R3, (003)

0x003

11

44

88

FF

FF FF FF FF

Sign extended

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Other Memory Issues

Non-word loads? ldbu R3, (003)

0x003

11

44

88

FF

00 00 00 FF

Zero filled

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Other Memory Issues

Alignment? Word accesses only address ending in 00

Half-word accesses only ending in 0

Byte accesses any address

0x002

11

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88

FF

ldw R3, (002) is illegal!

Why is it important to be aligned?How can it be enforced?

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Techniques for Encoding Operators

• Opcode is translated to control signals that– direct data (MUX control) – select operation for ALU– Set read/write selects for register/memory/PC

• Tradeoff between how flexible the control is and how compact the opcode encoding.– Microcode – direct control of signals (Improv)– Opcode – compact representation of a set of control

signals.• You can make decode easier with careful opcode selection

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Handling Control Flow

• Conditional branches (short range)

• Unconditional branches (jumps)

• Function calls

• Returns

• Traps (OS calls and exceptions)

• Predicates (conditional retirement)

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Encoding branch targets

• PC-relative addressing– Makes linking code easier

• Indirect addressing– Jumps into shared libraries, virtual functions,

case/switch statements

• Some unusual modes to simplify target address calculation – (segment offset) or (trap number)

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Condition codes

• Flags– Implicit: flag(s) specified in opcode (bgt)

– Flag(s) set by earlier instructions (compare, add, etc.)

• Register– Uses a register; requires explicit specifier

• Comparison operation– Two registers with compare operation specified in

opcode.

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Higher Level Semantics: Functions

• Function call semantics– Save PC + 1 instruction for return– Manage parameters– Allocate space on stack– Jump to function

• Simple approach: – Use a jump instruction + other instructions

• Complex approach:– Build implicit operations into new “call” instruction

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Role of the Compiler

• Compilers make the complexity of the ISA (from the programmers point of view) less relevant.– Non-orthogonal ISAs are more challenging.– State allocation (register allocation) is better

left to compiler heuristics– Complex Semantics lead to more global

optimization – easier for a machine to do.

People are good at optimizing 10 lines of code.Compilers are good at optimizing 10M lines.

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LC processor

• Little Computer Fall 2011– For programming projects

• Instruction Set Design

regA regBopcode destReg

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LC processor

R-type instructions

regA regBopcode destReg

24- 22 21- 19 18 –16 15 – 3 2 - 0

add: destReg = regA + regB

nand: destReg = regA & regB

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LC processor

I-type instructions

regA regBopcode offsetField

24- 22 21- 19 18 –16 15 – 0

lw: regB = Memory[regA + offsetField]

sw: Memory[regA +offsetField] = regB

beq: if (regA= = regB) PC = PC + 1 + offsetField

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LC processor

O-type instructions

opcode unused

24- 22 21 – 0

noop: do nothing

halt: halt the simulation

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LC assembly example

lw 0 1 five load reg1 with 5 (uses symbolic address)lw 1 2 3 load reg2 with -1 (uses numeric address)

start add 1 2 1 decrement reg1beq 0 1 2 goto end of program when reg1==0beq 0 0 start go back to the beginning of the loopnoop

done halt end of programfive .fill 5neg1 .fill -1stAddr .fill start will contain the address of start (2)

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LC machine code example

(address 0): 8454151 (hex 0x810007)(address 1): 9043971 (hex 0x8a0003)(address 2): 655361 (hex 0xa0001)(address 3): 16842754 (hex 0x1010002)(address 4): 16842749 (hex 0x100fffd)(address 5): 29360128 (hex 0x1c00000)(address 6): 25165824 (hex 0x1800000)(address 7): 5 (hex 0x5)(address 8): -1 (hex 0xffffffff)(address 9): 2 (hex 0x2)

Input for simulator:84541519043971655361168427541684274929360128251658245-12

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CDA 5155 and 4150