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TDTS57 Computer Architecture
Case study
For the case study you get points in the range 0 to 10. These points are added to those from the written exam and the total obtained sum will decide on the final grading (see Examination). If you do not write a case study you automatically get 0 points for this part.
The case study is performed by a group of not more than 4 and not less than 3 persons. The task is to analyse a processor, to write a report, to present the report, and to oppose to another report.
Each group chooses to describe a processor at its choice. Next, the group chooses a title for its report. The title can be, for example, "Power consumption in PowerPC". This means that you describe the processor in general, but more importantly, you focus on the new features introduced in the product and discuss the power consumption.
OBS, try to limit your focus.
The title of your report is of course at your choice. Not all have to focus on power consumption.
The report is presented by the group in a 15 minutes presentation at one of the announced presentation occasions (see below). Each group opposes (leads the discussion, poses relevant questions) to one report (cca. 5 minutes).
The report should be written in English or Swedish.
- Guidelines for your work.
- Registration of a group (latest on the 6th of February 2007).
- Examination.
Before presenting
Each group is responsible to send their report (in pdf to their opponents and to sohsa@ida.liu.se at latest 3 working days before the presentation occasion. The opponent group should write approximately an A4 page with their opposition on the report and hand in a hard copy to the course assistant at the presentation occasion.After the presentation
After the presentation each group make changes to their report according to the comments they received at the presentation. When you have the final version of your report (in pdf), you should send it to the course assistant using the following e-mail address: sohsa65.liu@analys.urkund.se. This e-mail address should only be used for this purpose. When you send your report to this e-mail address it will be checked by the Urkund system which consists of a large database of documents.The Urkund system will compare your reports with the documents in its database to check if there are any similarities with any existing document. The documents in the database are taken from scientific journals and proceedings, from publishing houses, from the Internet, and more.
When you submit your report to the Urkund system you will receive a notification from Urkund. After your report has been analyzed (takes at most 1 day), it will be forwarded to the supervisor together with the analysis results.Last day to submit your report to sohsa65.liu@analys.urkund.se: 5th of March 2007 OBS! Exceeding this date results in reduction of points with one point/day.
Presentation occasions
| Number | Date |
Registered groups
| Group | Contact | Processor | Focus | |
| 1 | Johan Ahlberg John Andersson Susanne Andersson Amanda Araskog |
johah364@student.liu.se johan169@student.liu.se susan504@student.liu.se amaar176@student.liu.se |
Intel Core 2 Duo | Comparison single- vs. multi-core processors |
| 2 | Patrik Larsson Andreas Zetterlund Aw Yong Lay Wen |
patla635@student.liu.se andze557@student.liu.se layaw292@student.liu.se |
nVidia 8800GTW gpu | Comparison with ATi X1950XTX |
| 3 | Yoo-Ho Kang Miguel Hurtado Gonzalez Omar Cruz |
yooka736@student.liu.se mighu494@student.liu.se omacr009@student.liu.se |
Playstation 2 EE,GS,IO processor | Performance study |
| 4 | Alvaro Gonzalez Nonay Juan Braga Mariano Sanchez Martin Loic Boute |
alvgo943@student.liu.se juabr215@student.liu.se marsa903@student.liu.se loibo116@student.liu.se |
Microchip PIC Family | Internal structure, comparison with other microcontrollers, applications |
| 5 | Michael Helldal Ämir Ben Ismail Anders Persson |
miche354@student.liu.se amibe946@student.liu.se andpe427@student.liu.se |
Intel Pentium | Pipelining |
| 6 | Linda Mohlin Erik Fransson Johan Gustavsson |
linmo503@student.liu.se erifr577@student.liu.se johgu729@student.liu.se |
? | ? |
| 7 | David Bjermo Adam Davy Karl Kessler Niklas Lundberg |
davbj075@student.liu.se adada940@student.liu.se karke956@student.liu.se niklu452@student.liu.se |
Intel Core 2 Duo | SSE4 |
| 8 | Olle Johansson Rouzbeh Heidari Pour Anders Bentell Erik Johansson |
olljo158@student.liu.se rouhe537@student.liu.se andbe874@student.liu.se erijo618@student.liu.se |
Intel P4, Core 2 Duo | Comparison |
| 9 | Andreas Englund Oscar Hultefors Mikael Hussain Johan Henkow |
i04anden@island.liu.se i04oschu@island.liu.se i04mikhu@island.liu.se i04johhe@island.liu.se |
Pentium 2 | Performance comparison between Pentium 2 and Pentium 3 |
Schedule for presentations
| Date | Presenting group | Opponent group |
| 27/2 (17:15-19) | 1 | 6 |
| 27/2 (17:15-19) | 5 | 1 |
| 1/3 (17:15-19) | 2 | 3 |
| 1/3 (17:15-19) | 3 | 4 |
| 1/3 (17:15-19) | 4 | 2 |
| 2/3 (8:15-10) | 8 | 7 |
| 2/3 (8:15-10) | 7 | 9 |
| 2/3 (8:15-10) | 9 | 8 |
| 2/3 (8:15-10) | 6 | 5 |
Page responsible: Petru Eles
Last updated: 2007-03-06
