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Feb 5 - L01
History of Calculation and Computer Architecture
Li-Shiuan Peh
Take Self-Assessment Test!
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Feb 07 - Tutorial Session
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Feb 10 - L02
Influence of Technology and Software on Instruction Sets: Up to the dawn of IBM 360
Li-Shiuan Peh
Self-Assessment Test DUE
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Feb 12 - L03
Hardwired, Single-cycle ISA Implementation
Li-Shiuan Peh
Lab 0 DUE
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Feb 14 - Tutorial Session
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Tuesday Feb 18* - L04
Instruction Pipelining and Hazards
Li-Shiuan Peh
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Feb 19 - L05
Instruction Pipelining: Hazard Resolution and Timing Constraints
Li-Shiuan Peh
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Feb 21 - Tutorial Session
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Feb 24 - L06
Microprogramming
Li-Shiuan Peh
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Feb 26 - L07
Cache Organization
Li-Shiuan Peh
Lab 1 DUE
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Feb 28 - Tutorial Session
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Mar 3 - L08
Memory Management: From Absolute Addresses to Demand Paging
Li-Shiuan Peh
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Mar 5 - L09
Modern Virtual Memory and Virtualization
Joel Emer
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Mar 7 - Quiz 1
Up to L07
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Mar 10 - L10
Complex Pipelining: Superscalar and Scoreboarding
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Mar 12 - L11
Out of Order Execution and Register Renaming
Li-Shiuan Peh
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Mar 14 - Tutorial Session
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Mar 17 - L12
Branch Prediction
Li-Shiuan Peh
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Mar 19 - L13
Speculative Execution and Recovery
Joel Emer
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Mar 21 - Tutorial Session
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Mar 24 - SPRING BREAK
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Mar 26 - SPRING BREAK
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Mar 28 - SPRING BREAK
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Mar 31 - L14
Advanced Memory Operations
Li-Shiuan Peh
Lab 2 DUE
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Apr 2 - L15
Multithreading
Dr. Michael Gschwind (IBM)
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Apr 4 - Quiz 2
Up to L13
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Apr 7 - L16
VLIW
Li-Shiuan Peh
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Apr 9 - L17
SIMD and Vector Processors
Li-Shiuan Peh
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Apr 11 - Tutorial Session
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Apr 14 - L18
GPU Architectures
Li-Shiuan Peh
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Apr 16 - L19
Reliability
Li-Shiuan Peh
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Apr 18 - Tutorial Session
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Apr 21 - Patriots' Day
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Apr 23 - L20
On-chip Networking (I)
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Apr 25 - Quiz 3
Up to L19
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Apr 28 - L21
On-chip Networking (II)
Li-Shiuan Peh
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Apr 30 - L22
Synchronization and Sequential Consistency
Li-Shiuan Peh
Lab 3 DUE
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May 2 - Tutorial Session
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May 5 - L23
Snoopy Cache Coherence
Li-Shiuan Peh
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May 7 - L24
Directory Cache Coherence
Li-Shiuan Peh
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May 9 - Tutorial Session
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May 12 - L25
Transactional Memory
Li-Shiuan Peh
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May 14 - Quiz 4
(In class)
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* - Monday, Feb 17th is President's day. Class is moved to Tuesday.