HW1 due date changed to 9/14 because books late
HW2 due date changed to 9/19 because books late
Lec Date Subject Reading Homework
assigned due
1. 8/31 Introduction, terminology 1.1-1.6 HW1
2. 9/5 Performance, 2.1-2.5
3. 9/7 Benchmarks, 2.6-2.8 HW2
4. 9/12 CPU operation skim 3.1-3.7
read p117-121 HW1
5. 9/14 esim - project simulator web page HW3 HW2
6. 9/19 Instructions and registers skim 3.8-3.11
read p145-149
7. 9/21 Arithmetic 4.1-4.4 HW4 HW3
8. 9/26 ALU 4.5
9. 9/28 Multiply 4.6 HW5
10. 10/3 Divide 4.7 HW4
11. 10/5 Floating Point 4.8
12. 10/10 esim - circuits and debugging web page HW6 HW5
13. 10/12 Control Unit 5.1-5.3
14. 10/17 Microprogramming - review 5.4-5.5
15. 10/19 mid-term exam
16. 10/24 Pipelining 1 6.1 HW7
17. 10/26 Pipelining 2 6.2-6.3 HW6
18. 10/31 Project outline web page HW8 HW7--+
19. 11/2 Pipelining hazards 1 6.4-6.6 PROJ V
20. 11/7 Pipelining hazards 2 " HW9 HW8--+
21. 11/9 Cache 7.1-7.2 PROJ 1/3 V
22. 11/14 Cache performance 7.3 HW10 HW9--+
23. 11/16 Virtual memory 1 7.4-7.5 V
24. 11/21 Virtual memory 2 " HW11
25. 11/28 Project layouts web page HW10
PROJ 2/3
26. 11/30 I/O types and performance 8.1-8.3 HW12 HW11
27. 12/5 Busses, I/O-processor connection 8.4-8.6
28. 12/7 Multiprocessors skim 9.1-9.4 HW12
29. 12/12 Review study PROJ 3/3
30. 12/19 Final Exam Tuesday December 19, 3;30pm-5;30pm (no other)
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