18-447 Course Schedule, Spring 2022 (**Not Most Recent**)

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.) There will be additional assigned readings from research papers.

  • Part 1: L1~L12 Microrocessors
  • Part 2: L13~L19 Memory and I/O
  • Part 3: L20~L27 Parallel

(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 HW
1 1/17 MLK Day (No Classes) No lab or office
hours in week 1
1/19 L3 RISC-V RV32I ISA P&H Ch2 Lab 1A/B start
2 1/24 L4 Single-Cycle Implementation P&H 4.1~4.4 HW1 out
1/25 L1 Introduction P&H 1
3 1/31 L2 ISA Design P&H Ch2 Lab 1A due
2/2 L5 Performance P&H 1.6~1.9
4 2/7 L6 Multi-Cycle Implementations P&H 4.5, Appendix C Lab 1B due HW1 due
HW2 out
2/9 L7 Pipelining: Basics P&H 4.6~4.7
5 2/14 L8 Pipelining: Data Hazard and Resolution P&H 4.8 Lab 2 start HW3 out
2/16 L9 Pipelining: Control Hazard and Resolution P&H 4.9
6 2/21 L10 Pipelining: Branch Prediction P&H 4.9 mid-Lab 2 check-off HW2 due
2/23 L11 Pipelining: Exceptions P&H 4.10 and rest
7 2/28 L12 Power and Energy Lab 2 due HW3 due
HW4 out
3/2 Midterm 1 in Class
Spring
Break 		Spring Break (No Classes)
8 3/14 L13 Busses and I/O P&H 6.10 Lab 3 start
3/16 L14 Memory Technology and Organization P&H 5.1, 5.2
9 3/21 L15 Caches P&H 5.3, 5.4 HW4 due
HW5 out
3/23 L16 More caches P&H 5.9, 5.13
10 3/28 L17 VM: protection and paging P&H 5.6~5.8 Lab 3 due
3/30 L18 VM: page tables and TLB P&H 5.6~5.8
11 4/4 L19 VM: survey of systems and security challenges Rest of Ch5 and paper Lab 4 start HW5 due
4/6 Midterm 2 in class
12 4/11 L20 ILP to multicore HW6 out
4/13 L21 Parallel Computer Architecture P&H Ch6
13 4/18 L22 Multithreaded Programming Lab 4 status check
4/20 L23 Parallel Performance P&H 5.15
14 4/25 L24 Cache Coherence P&H 5.10 Lab 4 due
4/27 L25 Synchronization P&H 2.11, 5.14
Finals
week 		5/2 HW6 due
5/6 Final Exam 5:30~8:30PM


Omitted in 2022

Week Date L# Topic Readings Lab Week
15 – L26 Interconnect
– L27 Hardware Acceleration