Reading assignments are to be completed BEFORE coming to class. (P&H=The Hardware/Software Interface, Fourth Edition by Patterson and Hennessy, Morgan Kaufmann/Elsvier.) You may also find it helpful to preview lecture notes from Spring 2009 before class. There will be additional assigned readings from research papers.
Lecturer JH = James C. Hoe; JM= José MartÃnez.
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| Week | Date | L# | Topic | Lecturer | Readings | Weekly Lab | HW |
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| 1 | 1/11 | L1 | Introduction | JH | P&H Ch1 | No lab meeting. Work on Lab 0a | |
| 1/13 | L2 | ISA Design | JH | P&H Ch2 (Optional P&H Appendix E.) | |||
| 2 | 1/18 | No classes (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) | Lab 0: warm-up | HW1 out | |||
| 1/20 | L3 | MIPS ISA | JH | P&H Ch2 | |||
| 3 | 1/25 | L4 | Single-Cycle Implementation | JH | P&H 4.1~4.4 | Lab 1: single-cycle | |
| 1/27 | L5 | Performance and Cost | JH | P&H Ch1.5 and 1.7 | |||
| 4 | 2/1 | L6 | Multi-Cycle Implementations | JM | P&H Appendix D | Lab 1 due | |
| 2/3 | L7 | Pipelining: Basics | JM | P&H Ch4.5~4.6 | HW1 due, HW2 out | ||
| 5 | 2/8 | | Snow Day Cancellation. | Lab 2: pipelining | |||
| 2/10 | | Snow Day Cancellation. | |||||
| 6 | 2/15 | L10 | Pipelining: Data Hazard and Resolution | JM | P&H Ch 4.7 | ||
| 2/17 | L11 | Pipelining: Control Hazard and Resolution | JM | P&H Ch 4.8 | HW2 due | ||
| 7 | 2/22 | Midterm 1 in Class (coverage through 2/17) | Lab 2 due (extended) | ||||
| 2/24 | L12 | Pipelining: Branch Prediction | JH | P&H Ch 4.8 | |||
| 8 | 3/1 | L13 | Pipelining: Exceptions | JH | P&H Ch 4.9 | Lab 3: control flow | |
| 3/3 | L14 | Caches | JH | P&H Ch5.1~5.3 | |||
| 3/8 | No classes (Spring Break) | ||||||
| 3/10 | No classes (Spring Break) | ||||||
| 9 | 3/15 | L15 | More caches | JM | P&H Ch5.2~5.3 | Lab 3 due | HW3 out |
| 3/17 | L16 | VM: protection and paging | JM | P&H Ch5.4~5.6 | |||
| 10 | 3/22 | L17 | VM: page tables and TLB (see L16) | JM | Rest of P&H Ch5 | Lab 4: caches | |
| 3/24 | L18 | VM: modern systems (see L16) | JM | assigned paper | |||
| 11 | 3/29 | L19 | Busses | JH | P&H Ch6 | No lab meeting | HW3 due |
| 3/31 | Midterm 2 in class | ||||||
| 12 | 4/5 | L20 | I/O | JH | P&H Ch6 | Lab 4 due | |
| 4/7 | L21 | ILP to Multicores | JH | P&H Ch7 | |||
| 13 | 4/12 | L22 | Parallel Programming Primer | JH | TBD | Lab 5a: parallel | |
| 4/14 | L23 | Parallel Computer Architecture. Supplemental Slides: Amdahl's Law in the Multicore Era, Hill&Marty | JH | TBD | |
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| 4/15-17 | Spring Carnival | ||||||
| 14 | 4/19 | L24 | Cache Coherence | JM | N/A | Lab 5a due | |
| 4/21 | L25 | Synchronization | JM | N/A | |||
| 15 | 4/26 | L26 | Distributed Shared Memory | JM | N/A | Lab 5b due | |
| 4/28 | L27 | Multiprocessor OS Issues | JM | N/A | |
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| 5/6 | Final Exam, 5:30 to 8:30pm |