1. Your PSU Instructor and You
ECE 371
Microprocessors
Introduction
Your PSU Instructor and You
Herbert G. Mayer, PSU
Status 10/13/2015
For use at CCUT Fall 2015

2. Who is Your PSU Instructor?
Instructor is a German immigrant to the USA, who worked in the US computer industry and academia
Moved to the USA, due to marriage with US citizen in Berlin
Became naturalized US citizen in 1995
MS EECS (electrical engineering an computer science) UCSD 1983; beautiful beach & campus!
PhD CS (“Informatik”, equivalent to “Computer Science”) TU Berlin 1995; awesome city, now united! Dissertation published as book at Springer Verlag © 1996
Professional focus at Intel on compiler optimization, HW validation, alias analysis, programming languages, VLIW, multiprocessing

3. Your Instructor
PhD Thesis on automatic generation of MP-object code via alias analysis of source programs
Retired from Intel Corp. in 2011 after 24 years with the microprocessor company
Implemented Intel Compilers for systolic array architecture 1980s
Managed Intel CPU tuning lab 1990s
Manager Intel CPU validation in 2000s for new Intel processors
Teaching computer science since 1987 PSU
Teaching experience 2004 in Shanghai, at IIIST
Loved China and teaching in China very much, so that I participated in our CCUT + PSU cooperation
Committed to CCUT in academic year

4. Goals of ECE 371
Study history, architecture, use, and internals of modern 32-bit microprocessors; very complex!!
Learn how to program microprocessors via structured assembly language programs
Understand processor interrupts, nested interrupts, and interrupt priorities
Understand microprocessor bus, cache-line relation
Learn about processor memory, memory hierarchy, and virtual memory management
Study, how dynamic branch prediction improves performance even of highly pipelined architecture

5. Who are You?
Briefly, 2-6 students volunteer to articulate in class, explaining:
Your name
Your field of study, major, and current progress
Why do you take ECE 221
What is your expectation of this class?
What is your minimal goal for this class?
Which is your ideal learning goal?
Have you worked in the computer industry?
Which computer subjects are you interested in?
Anything else relevant to this course