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| Date | Topic | Reading | Wk | Notes | ||
| M,W | Aug | 27,29 | Fundamentals of Design, Quantitative Aspects | Ch 1 | 1 | Fundamentals.pdf |
| W | Sept | 3,5 |
Labor Day Holiday 9/3 Instruction Set Basics |
Ch 2.1-2.5 | 2 | ISA: pdf, or ppt. |
| W | Sept | 12 |
Instructor Away 9/10 Instruction Set Details of DLX |
Ch 2.5-2.11 | 3 | HW #1 Due 9/12 |
| M,W | Sept | 17,19 | Pipelining | Ch 3.1-3.8 | 4 | DLX: ppt, pdf. |
| M,W | Sept | 24,26 |
Pipelining MIPS R4000 ILP: Loop Unrolling |
Ch 3.8-3.11 Ch 4.1 |
5 | Pipelining 1:ppt, pdf |
| M,W | Oct | 1,3 |
Exam 1 , Wednesday 10/3 ILP: Scoreboarding |
Ch 4.2 | 6 | HW #2 Due 10/1 |
| M,W | Oct | 8,10 | Branch Prediction & Other methods for extracting ILP |
Ch 4.3-4.5 |
7 | ILP1: ppt, pdf |
| M,W | Oct | 15,17 | Cache Basics, Reducing Cache Misses | Ch 5.1-5.5 | 8 | ILP2: zip, pdf |
| M,W | Oct | 22,24 |
Cache and Virtual Memory Cache Pitfalls |
Ch 5.6-5.9 Ch 5.11-5.13 |
9 |
Cache1: ppt,
pdf
HW #3 Due 10/22 |
| M,W | Oct | 29,31 |
Multiprocessing, Cache Coherency |
Ch 8.1 - 8.3 | 10 | Memory: ppt, pdf. |
| M,W | Nov | 5, 7 |
Exam 2, Wednesday 11/7 Distributed Shared Architectures |
Ch 8.4 | 11 | HW #4 Due 11/5 |
| M,W | Nov | 12,14 | Vector Processors | Appendix B.1-B.5 | 12 | Parallel 1: ppt, pdf |
| M | Nov | 19 |
Thanksgiving Holiday 11/21 Vector Processors Performance |
Appendix B.6-B-9 | 13 | MPP, Vectors: ppt ,pdf. |
| M,W | Nov | 26,28 | Student Presentations | 14 |
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| M,W | Dec | 3,5 | Student Presentations | 15 |
HW #5 Due 12/5 |
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| M | Dec | 10 | Final Exam , Monday 12/10 | Finals Week | Time Monday 12/10: 1:00-3:45PM | |