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Advanced Compilers and Architectures
Spring 2011
Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Harry Wijshoff, Dr. Erwin Bakker
Assistants: Kristian Rietveld, Mattias Holm.
Advanced Compilers and Architectures (ACA) is a free format course. The exact contents of the course differ each year and will be established together with the students attending the course. We will build on the courses Computer Architecture, Compiler Construction and Operating Systems.
The topic of this year will be optimization of virtual memory management. We will look into generating a per-application virtual memory management system using a compiler. Finally, the aim is to merge this system into the executable automatically using compiler technology.
We meet every Tuesday at 13:45 in room 403.
Material
Course material consists of hand-outs of recent articles.
Examination
Examination will most likely consist out of a paper presentation and a project.
Mailing list
A mailing list is used for this class, by sending e-mail to aca2011@liacs.nl you will reach all participants of the class.
Upcoming deadlines
The following project deadline were set during class on May 3:
May 31: Martin, Patric & Wouter.
June 6: Xiwen & Giso.
June 13: Frank, Jaron & Marius.
August 31: Liu Wei.
Contact
You can reach us by sending e-mail to krietvel (at) liacs.nl or drop by in room 142.
Schedule
| Date | Contents |
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| February 1, 2011 | No class! |
| February 8, 2011 | No class! |
| February 15, 2011 | Introduction to topic. Introduction to LLVM by Mattias Holm. |
| February 22, 2011 | The ARM MMU by Mattias Holm |
| March 1, 2011 | Literature Inventory. We have asked you to search for literature about compiler-assisted memory management. For today's class, prepare an informal (no powerpoint required, using the blackboard is fine/preferred) and short presentation (5 minutes) based on what you have found and any other ideas you might have. |
| March 8, 2011 | First brainstorm session. Remember to send your proposals to the mailing list before Monday March 7 at noon. |
| March 15, 2011 | Brainstorm session. Send a one paragraph re-description of your project to the mailing list before Monday March 14 at noon. |
| March 22, 2011 | |
| March 29, 2011 | Discussion on progress. |
| April 5, 2011 | Discussion on progress. |
| April 12, 2011 | Discussion on progress. |
| April 19, 2011 | Presentation by Martin Iliev (TLB miss optimization). Followed by progress reporting. |
| April 21, 2011 | Hacking session in room 405 |
| April 26, 2011 | Progress reports. |
| May 3, 2011 | Presentation by Martin Iliev (Data cache miss optimization). Followed by progress reports. |
| May 10, 2011 | Presentation by Martin Iliev (Instruction cache miss optimization). Followed by progress reports. |
| May 17, 2011 | From May 17 on, it is no longer obligatory to attend the progress meetings. |
| June 7, 2011 | Progress meeting. |
| June 14, 2011 | Progress meeting. |
| There will be no further progress meetings. We expect your final reports to be handed in by e-mail |
Links
We are using the OMAP3530 chip, which contains an ARM Cortex-A8 (we will
post the exact revision as soon as we extract this data from the chip).
Information on the ARM chip
Cortex-A8 Technical Reference Manual, for example the one here. For much more detail, refer to the ARMv7-A (the Cortex-A8 is an ARMv7-A) Architecture Reference Manual, available here, but only after free registration.
Information on the OMAP chip
Refer to the Technical Reference Manual of the OMAP35x Applications Processor, available from Texas Instruments. The latest revision is SPRUF98O from February 2011 (25 MB!).
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