CS470 Spring 2007
Project
How the project report will be evaluated:
Here are suggested minimums for the project:
§ A
100-150 word abstract
§ At least
o one illustration,
o
one table/equation/plot with hard data,
o
at last 6 citations, in
proper academic format, of which at least 2 are less than a year old.
§ Must demonstrate that you are aware of what is the current status of the technology
Possible Topics:
Here is a partial list of possible topics:
§ Intel's
teraflops chip
§ Multi-core
processor architecture
§ Comparison
of currently available popular processors
§ Outlook
for
§ Current
status of the MIPS processor in the market
§ Media
processors
§ FPGAs: recent advances
§ Advances
in graphics cards
§ Blade
servers
§ Economics
of computer organization/architecture
§ Evolution
of memory chips
§ Intel/AMD
competition
§ Advances/economics
of memory chips
§ Chip
makers and the stock market trends
§ Digital
circuit simulators
§ Implementing
something interesting using a simulator (that hasn't been done)
§ Now Java applet to illustrate a key concept in computer architecture