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Monday and Wednesday 1:00pm-2:15pm ITE 229
Reading assignments: from fourth edition of textbook, 3rd ed OK. Homework and projects are due midnight on the date listed. Computer Engineering majors have additional tasks in some assignments.
Lec Date Subject Reading Homework assigned due 1. 1/26 Introduction, terminology 1.1-1.5 HW1 2. 1/31 Benchmarks 1.7 3. 2/2 Performance, 1.4 HW2 HW1 4. 2/7 CPU operation skim 2.1-2.11 read p78 5. 2/9 Instructions and registers skim 2.1-2.11 HW3 HW2 read p121 6. 2/14 VHDL introduction VHDL web Pages 7. 2/16 Arithmetic C.5-C.6 HW4 HW3 VHDL WEB Pages 8. 2/21 ALU 3.1-3.2 9. 2/23 Multiply 3.3 HW5 HW4* 10. 2/28 Divide 3.4 11. 3/2 Floating Point 3.5 12. 3/7 VHDL - circuits and debugging VHDL web pages HW6 HW5 13. 3/9 Microprogramming - review web pages 14. 3/14 mid-term exam study 15. 3/16 Control Unit 5.1-5.4 Spring Break 16. 3/28 Pipelining 1 4.1-4.3 HW6* 17. 3/30 Pipelining 2 4.5-4.6 HW7 18. 4/4 Project outline and VHDL VHDL web pages proj1 19. 4/6 Pipelining Data Forwarding 4.7 proj2a HW7 20. 4/11 Hazard and stalls 4.7 HW8 Proj1* proj2b 21. 4/13 Cache 5.1-5.2 HW9 22. 4/18 Cache performance 5.3 proj3a HW8 23. 4/20 Virtual memory 1 5.4 HW10 HW9 Proj2a* 24. 4/25 Virtual memory 2 web page proj3b 25. 4/27 I/O types and performance 6.3-6.7 HW11 HW10 Proj2b* 26. 5/2 DVR, DVD-RW, CDR, CD-RW web page 27. 5/4 Busses, I/O-processor connection 6.5 HW12 HW11 Proj3a* 28. 5/9 Multiprocessors skim 7.1-7.4 Review, study guide study 29. 5/11 No class, use time to study web pages 30. Wed 5/18 Final Exam 1:00pm-3:00pm room ITE 229 (Bring ID card, show when turning in exam.) HW12 Proj3b No late homework or project accepted after midnight 5/18 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 5/18. Missing or copied projects get a zero.
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