Lec Date Subject Reading Homework
assigned due
1. 9/1 Introduction, terminology 1.1-1.6 HW1
2. 9/3 Performance, 2.1-2.5
3. 9/8 Benchmarks, 2.6-2.8 HW2 HW1
4. 9/10 CPU operation skim 3.1-3.7
read p117-121
5. 9/15 esim - project simulator web page HW3 HW2
6. 9/17 Instructions and registers skim 3.8-3.11
read p145-149
7. 9/22 Arithmetic 4.1-4.4 HW4 HW3
8. 9/24 ALU 4.5
9. 9/29 Multiply 4.6 HW5 HW4
10. 10/1 Divide 4.7
11. 10/6 Floating Point 4.8 HW6 HW5
12. 10/8 Control Unit 5.1-5.3
13. 10/13 Microprogramming 5.4-5.5 HW7 HW6
14. 10/15 Special cases skim 5.8-5.9
15. 10/20 mid-term exam study
16. 10/22 Pipelining 1 6.1
17. 10/27 Pipelining 2 6.2-6.3 HW8 HW7
18. 10/29 Project outline web page
19. 11/3 Pipelining hazards 1 6.4-6.6 HW8
20. 11/5 Pipelining hazards 2 " <-*
21. 11/10 Cache 7.1-7.2 HW9
22. 11/12 Cache performance 7.3 HW10 PROJ 1/3
23. 11/17 Virtual memory 1 7.4-7.5 HW9
24. 11/19 Virtual memory 2 " HW11 HW10
25. 11/24 Project layouts web page PROJ 2/3
26. 12/1 I/O types and performance 8.1-8.3 HW12 HW11
27. 12/3 Busses, I/O-processor connection 8.4-8.6
28. 12/8 Multiprocessors skim 9.1-9.4 HW12
29. 12/10 Review study PROJ 3/3
30. 12/15 Final Exam 3:30 - 5:30
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