Reading assignments are to be completed BEFORE coming to class. (P&H=Computer Organization and Design RISC-V Edition: The Hardware Software Interface, 2nd Edition by Patterson and Hennessy, Morgan Kaufmann/Elsvier.) You may also find it helpful to preview lecture notes from Spring 2020 before class. There will be additional assigned readings from research papers.
(If interested, go to Spring 2009 Lecture Notes for lectures (L2, L3, L4) on computer arithmetic)
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| Week | Date | L# | Topic | Readings | Lab Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2/1 | L1 | Introduction | P&H Ch1 | No TA office hours this week |
| 2/3 | L2 | RISC-V RV32I ISA | P&H Ch2 | Lab 1A/B start | |
| 2 | 2/8 | L3 | Single-Cycle Implementation | P&H 4.1~4.4 | |
| 2/10 | L4 | ISA Design | P&H Ch2 | ||
| 3 | 2/15 | L5 | Performance | P&H 1.6~1.9 | Lab 1A due |
| 2/17 | L6 | Multi-Cycle Implementations | P&H 4.5, Appendix C | ||
| 4 | 2/22 | L7 | Pipelining: Basics | P&H 4.6~4.7 | Lab 1B due |
| 2/24 | L8 | Pipelining: Data Hazard and Resolution | P&H 4.8 | ||
| 5 | 3/1 | L9 | Pipelining: Control Hazard and Resolution | P&H 4.9 | Lab 2 start |
| 3/3 | L10 | Pipelining: Branch Prediction | P&H 4.9 | ||
| 6 | 3/8 | L11 | Pipelining: Exceptions | P&H 4.10 and rest | mid-Lab 2 check-off |
| 3/10 | Midterm 1 in Class | ||||
| 7 | 3/15 | L12 | Power and Energy | Lab 2 due | |
| 3/17 | L13 | Busses and I/O | P&H 6.10 | ||
| 8 | 3/22 | L14 | Memory Technology and Organization | P&H 5.1, 5.2 | Lab 3 start |
| 3/24 | L15 | Caches | P&H 5.3, 5.4 | ||
| 9 | 3/29 | L16 | More caches | P&H 5.9, 5.13 | |
| 3/31 | L17 | VM: protection and paging | P&H 5.6~5.8 | ||
| 10 | 4/5 | Break Day; No Classes | Lab 3 due | ||
| 4/7 | L18 | VM: page tables and TLB | P&H 5.6~5.8 | ||
| 11 | 4/12 | L19 | VM: survey of systems and security challenges | Rest of Ch5 and paper | Lab 4 start |
| 4/14 | Midterm 2 in class | ||||
| 4/16 | Spring Carnival | ||||
| 12 | 4/19 | L20 | ILP to multicore | ||
| 4/21 | L21 | Parallel Computer Architecture | P&H Ch6 | ||
| 13 | 4/26 | L22 | Multithreaded Programming | Lab 4 status check | |
| 4/28 | L23 | Parallel Performance | P&H 5.15 | ||
| 14 | 5/3 | L24 | Cache Coherence | P&H 5.10 | Lab 4 due |
| 5/5 | L25 | Synchronization | P&H 2.11, 5.14 | ||
| 5/11 | Midterm 3 during final period; see Canvas |
Omitted in 2021
| Week | Date | L# | Topic | Readings | Lab Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | L26 | Interconnect | |||
| – | L27 | Hardware Acceleration |