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Tuesday and Thursday 4:00pm-5:15pm ACIV 150 Wednesday and Friday 2:30pm- 3:45pm SOND 204
Reading assignments: from fourth edition of textbook, 3rd ed OK. Homework and projects are due midnight on the later date listed. Same lectures, same homework, both sections. Computer Engineering majors have additional tasks in some assignments.
Lec Date Subject Reading Homework assigned due 1. 9/1 Introduction, terminology 1.1-1.5 HW1 9/2 2. 9/3 Benchmarks 1.7 9/4 3. 9/8 Performance, 1.4 HW2 HW1 9/9 4. 9/10 CPU operation skim 2.1-2.11 9/11 read p78 5. 9/15 Instructions and registers skim 2.1-2.11 HW3 HW2 9/16 read p121 6. 9/17 VHDL introduction VHDL web Pages 9/18 7. 9/22 Arithmetic C.5-C.6 HW4 HW3 9/23 VHDL WEB Pages 8. 9/24 ALU 3.1-3.2 9/25 9. 9/29 Multiply 3.3 HW5 9/30 10. 10/1 Divide 3.4 HW4* 10/2 11. 10/6 Floating Point 3.5 10/7 12. 10/8 VHDL - circuits and debugging VHDL web pages HW6 HW5 10/9 13. 10/13 Microprogramming - review web pages 10/14 14. 10/15 mid-term exam study 10/16 15. 10/20 Control Unit 5.1-5.4 HW6* 10/21 16. 10/22 Pipelining 1 4.1-4.3 10/23 17. 10/27 Pipelining 2 4.5-4.6 HW7 10/28 18. 10/29 Project outline and VHDL VHDL web pages proj1 10/30 19. 11/3 Pipelining Data Forwarding 4.7 proj2a HW7 11/4 20. 11/5 Hazard and stalls 4.7 HW8 Proj1* 11/6 proj2b 21. 11/10 Cache 5.1-5.2 HW9 11/11 22. 11/12 Cache performance 5.3 proj3a 11/13 23. 11/17 Virtual memory 1 5.4 HW10 HW8 11/18 Proj2a* 24. 11/19 Virtual memory 2 web page proj3b HW9 11/20 25. 11/24 I/O types and performance 6.3-6.7 HW11 HW10 11/25 Proj2b* 26. 12/1 DVR, DVD-RW, CDR, CD-RW web page 12/2 27. 12/3 Busses, I/O-processor connection 6.5 HW12 HW11 12/4 Proj3a* 28. 12/8 Multiprocessors skim 7.1-7.4 12/9 29. 12/10 Review study HW12 12/11 Proj3b* 30. 12/22 Final Exam 0101 3:30pm-5:30pm room ACIV 150 (none other than these two) 12/18 Final Exam 0201 1:00pm-3:00pm room SOND 204 (none other than these two) (take either exam, Bring ID card, show when turning in exam.) No late homework or project accepted after midnight 12/22 Late penalty is 10% per week, penalty limit 50%. * submitted, not graded until next weekend (not late for a while) Projects are graded only once, do not do "submit" until finished. Check will be made for copying after midnight 12/22. Missing or copied projects get a zero.
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