1 CS/COE0447 Computer Organization & Assembly Language CHAPTER 1 Part 1
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Today’s Topics• Layered approach to computer design• Machine code example• Components of ISA• Computer implementations
– Inside a PC– IC technology and its trends– Input/output devices – Main memory– Secondary storage– Network
• IC process overview
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Transistors
Layered Approach in Computer Design
Computer Architecture orInstruction Set Architecture
Logic gates
Microarchitecture
Architecture
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Machine Code Example
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void swap(int v[], int k){
int temp;temp = v[k];v[k] = v[k+1];v[k+1] = temp;
}
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Components of ISA
• In most cases, a “programmer’s reference manual” (PRM) will disclose the ISA of a processor
• To understand an ISA, find in PRM– Data types the processor supports– Supported instructions and their definitions– Registers (general-purpose & special purpose)– Processor modes– Exception mechanism
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Inside a PC
• Integrated Circuits (ICs)– CPU (Central Processing Unit), companion chipset, memory,
peripheral I/O chip (e.g., USB, IDE, IEEE1394, …)• Printed Circuit (PC) boards
– Substrate for ICs and interconnection– Distribution of clock, power supply– Heat dissipation
• Hard disk, CD-RW (DVD-RW), (floppy disk)• Power supply
– Converts line AC voltage to regulated DC low voltage levels– GND, +/-12V, +/-5V, …
• Chassis– Holds boards, power supply, and provides physical interface for
user and other systems• Connectors and cables
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Integrated Circuits• Primarily crystaline silicon• 1mm~25mm on a side• Feature size: 90nm ~ 130nm• 100 ~ 1000M transistors• 25 ~ 250M “logic gates”• 3 ~ 10 metal “conductive” layers• CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide
Semiconductor) technology
• Package spreads chip-level signal paths to board level
• Provides heat dissipation• Ceramic or plastic with gold wires• 8 ~ 1000 leads• Various form-factors and shapes
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Printed Circuit (PC) Boards
• Fiberglass or ceramic• 1 ~ 20 conductive layers• 1 ~ 20 inch on a side• IC packages are mounted
and soldered on a board
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Memory Capacity Trend (DRAM)
1.4x/year or 2x every 2 years8000x since 1980!
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Year
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10000
100000
1000000
10000000
100000000
1000000000
1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000
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Processor Performance Trend
0100200300400500600700800900
87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97
DEC Alpha21264/600
DEC Alpha 5/500
DEC Alpha 5/300
DEC Alpha 4/266
IBM POWER 100
Intel P4 2000 MHz(Fall 2001)
1.54x/year
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Technology Advances
• Memory– DRAM capacity: 2x / 2 years (since ’96)– 64x size improvement in last decade
• Processor– Speed (in terms of clock frequency): 2x / 1.5 years (since
’85)– 100x performance improvement in last decade
• Disk– Capacity: 2x / 1 year (since ’97)– 250x size improvement in last decade
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Your PC After Graduation
• Processor speed– 6~8GHz
• Memory capacity– 4GB~8GB
• Disk capacity– 1000GB or 1TB
• New units: Mega to Giga, Giga to Tera, (Tera to Peta, Peta to Exa, Exa to Zetta, Zetta to Yotta)
• New, faster serial interfaces for various peripherals
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My First PC (@college)• IBM PC AT
– Based on 80286 (80586 is Pentium-1)
• Processor speed– 20MHz (?) compared to 5,000MHz
• Memory capacity– 1MB compared to 4000MB
• Disk capacity– 40MB compared to 1000GB
• No CD-ROM!
• 14 inch monitor (not flat!), VGA (640x480)
• Wheel mouse– 2 buttons
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Input Devices
• Accepts input from human (or from other machine)
• Desktop computers– Keyboard– Mouse (touchpad)– Joystick– …
• Servers– Terminals on network
• Cell phone – Embedded computers– Keypad
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Input Devices, cont’d
• Mouse– Wheel mouse (hard to find nowadays)– Optical mouse
• Takes 1,500 “photo shots” of LED reflection to detect any movement
• Keyboard or keypad– Not many changes so far
• Web camera
• Voice recognition– Partly successful
• New input device?
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Output Devices
• Passes information to human (or to other machine)
• Desktop computers– Display (CRT or LCD)– Sound– …
• Servers– Terminals on network
• Cell phone – Embedded computers– Screen– Sound– Vibration
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Output Devices, cont’d
• Display– CRT to LCD– LCD size from 10 inch to 24 inch
• Resolution from 640x480 to 1600x1200
• Sound– Simple “tick” to theatre-like effects, 5.1
channel, etc.
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Main memory
• PC/servers use “DRAM” (Dynamic RAM)– SDRAM– DDR SDRAM– RDRAM (RAMBUS DRAM)
A typical SDRAM “module”
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Main memory, cont’d
• Embedded computers use DRAM or SRAM (or both) depending on applications– On-chip SRAM (embedded SRAM)– On-chip SDRAM (embedded SDRAM)– SDRAM– Mobile SDRAM (1.8V operation)
SRAM, SDRAM, FLASH allin a same chip!
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Storage
• Secondary storage (cf. main memory)• Non-volatile• Stores programs, user-saved data, etc.
• In PC/server domain, magnetic disk (hard-disk) is usually used
• In embedded computers, “flash” memory or “ROM” is usually employed
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Computer Networks
• Local Area Network (LAN)– Within limited distance (e.g., in a building)– Mostly based on Ethernet– 10Mbps, 100Mbps, 1Gbps, 10Gbps, …
• Wide Area Network– Connecting networks far apart
• At home,– Modem: 14.4Kbps, 28.8Kbps, 33.6Kbps, 56Kbps– Cable modem/DSL: several hundred Kbps ~ several Mbps– Higher-speed DSL technologies
• Proliferation of wireless LAN (IEEE802.11)– 1 ~ 100Mbps
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(Simple) IC Process Overview
• Silicon ingot (silicon cylinder)• (Blank) Wafers• Various steps to build circuits on wafers
– Photomask process– Chemical process– Mechanical process
• “Wafer test” to sort out bad parts• Tested “die”• “Packaging” steps
– Wire bonding– Material filling– Marking
• “Chip test” to sort out bad parts• Products
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Testing Your Chip
• Function– “The chip is working correctly” as intended
• Speed– “The chip is running at 4 GHz” as intended– “Speed binning”
• Power– “The chip consumes 50 Watt at 4 GHz” as intended
• Reliability– “The chip will be operational for 10 years” as written
on manual and box
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Calculating Your Chip Cost
• Things to consider:– Mask cost: we need 20 ~ 40 masks used to form different
patterns used in different process steps a.k.a. Non-Recurring Engineering (NRE) cost
– Wafer cost– Cost put in process steps– Defect parts (we spend money producing defect parts!)– Any other overhead including marketing
• Can we calculate cost of each chip now?• What happens if we adopt a new technology that can
build smaller transistors?
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(Simple) IC Process Overview
• Silicon ingot (silicon cylinder)• (Blank) Wafers• Various steps to build circuits on wafers
– Photomask process– Chemical process– Mechanical process
• “Wafer test” to sort out bad parts• Tested “die”• “Packaging” steps
– Wire bonding– Material filling– Marking
• “Chip test” to sort out bad parts• Products
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Testing Your Chip
• Function– “The chip is working correctly” as intended
• Speed– “The chip is running at 4 GHz” as intended– “Speed binning”
• Power– “The chip consumes 50 Watt at 4 GHz” as intended
• Reliability– “The chip will be operational for 10 years” as written
on manual and box
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Calculating Your Chip Cost
• Things to consider:– Mask cost: we need 20 ~ 40 masks used to form different
patterns used in different process steps a.k.a. Non-Recurring Engineering (NRE) cost
– Wafer cost– Cost put in process steps– Defect parts (we spend money producing chips with
defects!)– Any other overhead including marketing
• Can we calculate cost of each chip now?• What happens if we adopt a new technology that can
build smaller transistors?