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List of assignments

Issue date and deadline Assignment Skills required
1 Oct — 17 Oct A1: Implementation of functional memory model

In this assignment you will implement the main interfaces of the functional memory. They include initialization from a MIPS executable file in the ELF format, reading/writing data and others.

Programming technology:

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Read first two chapters of "Teach Yourself C++" by Herbert Schildt:

  • 1. An Overview of C++
  • 2. Introducing Classes
10 Nov - 28 Nov A2: MIPS Disassembler

In this assignment you will implement a static disassembler of main MIPS instructions (objdump). Instructions are read from memory model same as you made in A1.

Theory: Programming language skills:

Revise C-style unions and bit structures from classic K&R book

Read next chapters of "Teach Yourself C++" by Herbert Schildt:

  • 3. A Closer Look at Classes.
  • 4. Arrays, Pointers, and References.
  • 5. Function Overloading.
  • 6. Introducing Operator Overloading.
19 Dec — 29 Jan A3: Single-cycle implementation

In this assignment you will implement a simpliest simulator of MIPS CPU. Instructions are read from memory model same as you made in A1, and decoded by disassembler same to A2.

Theory:
  • Revise materials of L7 lecture and P3 practicum (next lectures)
Programming technology skills:
21 Feb — 13 Mar A4: Pipelined implementation

In this assignment you will upgrade our single-cycle implementation to scalar MIPS simulator with constant latency for instruction execution.

 Theory: Programming technology skills:
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    5 Mar — 21 Mar A5: Cache implementation and Misses study

    In this assignment you will implement a configurable model of a cache with initial interfaces and will carry out a small performance study.

    		 Theory: Programming technology skills:

    No extra skills are required

    MIPT-V / MIPT-MIPS — Cycle-accurate pre-silicon simulation.

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