| Monday |
Wednesday |
Friday |
|
Feb 3 - L01
Introduction
Take Self-Assessment Test!
|
Feb 5 - Tutorial Session
|
|
Feb 8 - L02
Hardwired, Single-cycle ISA Implementation
|
Feb 10 - L03
Cache Organization
Self-Assessment Test DUE
|
Feb 12 - Tutorial Session
Lab 0 DUE
|
|
Tuesday Feb 16* - L04
Memory Management: From Absolute Addresses to Demand Paging
|
Feb 17 - L05
Modern Virtual Memory
|
Feb 19 - Tutorial Session
|
|
Feb 22 - L06
Instruction Pipelining and Hazards
|
Feb 24 - L07
Instruction Pipelining: Hazard Resolution and Timing Constraints
|
Feb 26 - Tutorial Session
Lab 1 DUE
|
|
Feb 29 - L08
Complex Pipelining: Superscalar and Scoreboarding
|
Mar 2 - L09
Out of Order Execution and Register Renaming
|
Mar 4 - Quiz 1
Up to L08
|
|
Mar 7 - L10
Branch Prediction
|
Mar 9 - L11
Speculative Execution and Recovery
|
Mar 11 - Tutorial Session
|
|
Mar 14 - L12
Advanced Memory Operations
|
Mar 16 - L13
Reliability
|
Mar 18 - Tutorial Session
Lab 2 DUE
|
|
Mar 21 - SPRING BREAK
|
Mar 23 - SPRING BREAK
|
Mar 25 - SPRING BREAK
|
|
Mar 28 - L14
Multithreading
|
Mar 30 - L15
Cache Coherence (I)
|
Apr 1 - Quiz 2
Up to L14
|
|
Apr 4 - L16
Cache Coherence (II)
|
Apr 6 - L17
Memory Consistency Models
|
Apr 8 - Tutorial Session
|
|
Apr 11 - L18
On-chip Networking (I)
|
Apr 13 - L19
On-chip Networking (II)
|
Apr 15 - Tutorial Session
Lab 3 DUE
|
|
Apr 18 - Patriots' Day
|
Apr 20 - L20
VLIW
|
Apr 22 - Quiz 3
Up to L19
|
|
Apr 25 - L21
SIMD and Vector Processors
|
Apr 27 - L22
GPU Architectures
|
May 1 - Tutorial Session
|
|
May 2 - L23
Transactional Memory
|
May 4 - L24
Virtualization
|
May 6 - Tutorial Session
Lab 4 DUE
|
|
May 9 - L25
Future Trends
|
May 11 - Quiz 4
(In class)
|
|
* - Monday, Feb 15th is President's day. Class is moved to Tuesday.