Digital Storage Technologies
ECE 5752 - Spring Term 2005 Hompage



Instructor: Brian T. Davis

btdavis@mtu.edu

Office Hrs : TBD
Office Rm : 729 EERC
Office Ph# : 487-2256
7th Floor Mailbox # : 40


ECE 5752 Course Meeting Times
Day Time Room Type Instructor
Mon 10-11am 227 EERC LEC Prof. Davis
Wed 10-11am 227 EERC LEC Prof. Davis
Fri 10-11am 227 EERC LEC Prof. Davis
Known Class cancelations

Friday Feb 18th - BTD on Travel


ECE 5752 General Information


Lecture Notes


ECE 5752 Reading Assignments

Date
Subject to change
Reference Chapter, Pages, Specifics
Mon Jan 17th [Prince99] Chapter 1
Fri Jan 21st [MPR96] "Architects look to processors of future." Gordon Bell, Richard Sites, William Dally, David Ditzel, and Yale Patt.
Microprocessor Report, vol. 10, no. 10, pp. 18-24, August 1996.
Fri Jan 21st [McKee95] "Hitting the Memory Wall: Implications of the Obvious." Wm. A. Wulf and Sally A. McKee.
Computer Architecture News, 23(1):20-24, March 1995.
[skandron97] Skandron - Write Buffers.
[Jouppi] Jouppi - Victim Caches & Stream Buffers.
WRL-TN-14.
[Patel] Patel - Trace Cache.
[Kroft] Kroft - MSHRs.
Friday Jan 28th [Prince99] Chapter 2
HP Press Release HP produces worlds densest molecular memory
Wednesday 02/02 [Burger] Read through the middle of page 13 only - the Appendix is for Reference
Wednesday 02/02 [Prince99] Chapter 4
Monday 02/07 Micron TN-05-28 Choosing the right MICRON SRAM
Friday 02/11 [Prince99] Chapter 5
Monday 02/21 [Dipert00] "The slammin, jammin, DRAM scramble." Brian Dipert. EDN, pp. 68-82, January 2000.
Monday 2/28 [Rhoden02] "Continuously Improving Improving Commodity DRAM Commodity DRAM." Intel Developer Forum, Feb 25-28, 2002.
Wed 3/16 [RambusXDR05] "XDR DRAM : System Design Overview" Rambus Corporation.
Wed 3/16 [Glaskowsky02] "Rambus Rolls Out Yellowstone" Peter Glaskowsky - Microprocessor Report.
Fri 03/25 [Prince99] Chapter 6
Monday 03/28 [Sharma03] Chapter & Section 3.9
Advanced Semiconductor Memories: Architectures, Designs, and Applications. Ashok K. Sharma, ISBN: 0-471-20813-2, 672 Pages, September 2002, Wiley-IEEE Press.
Monday 04/04 [Sharma03] Chapter & Sections 5.1-5.5
Advanced Semiconductor Memories: Architectures, Designs, and Applications. Ashok K. Sharma, ISBN: 0-471-20813-2, 672 Pages, September 2002, Wiley-IEEE Press.
Monday 04/11 [Ramtron96] FRAM - The Ultimate Memory

ECE 5752 Homework Assignments

All Dates are preiliminary and subject to change.


ECE 5752 Programming Assignments

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Resources for programming assignments


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