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Feb 8 - L01
Introduction
Take Self-Assessment Test!
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Feb 10 - Tutorial Session
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Feb 13
Class cancelled due to snow storm
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Feb 15 - L02
Hardwired, Single-cycle ISA Implementation
Self-Assessment Test DUE
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Feb 17 - Tutorial Session
Lab 0 DUE
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Tuesday Feb 21* - L03
Cache Organization
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Feb 22 - L04
Memory Management: From Absolute Addresses to Demand Paging
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Feb 24 - L05
Modern Virtual Memory
Snow day makeup lecture for Feb.13
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Feb 27 - L06
Instruction Pipelining and Hazards
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Mar 1 - L07
Instruction Pipelining: Hazard Resolution and Timing Constraints
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Mar 3 - Tutorial Session
Lab 1 DUE
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Mar 6 - L08
Complex Pipelining: Superscalar and Scoreboarding
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Mar 8 - L09
Out of Order Execution and Register Renaming
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Mar 10 - Quiz 1
Up to L07
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Mar 13 - L10
Branch Prediction
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Mar 15 - L11
Speculative Execution and Recovery
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Mar 17 - Tutorial Session
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Mar 20 - L12
Advanced Memory Operations
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Mar 22 - L13
Multithreading
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Mar 24 - Tutorial Session
Lab 2 DUE
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Mar 27 - SPRING BREAK
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Mar 29 - SPRING BREAK
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Mar 31 - SPRING BREAK
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Apr 3 - L14
Cache Coherence (I)
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Apr 5 - L15
Cache Coherence (II)
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Apr 7 - Quiz 2
Up to L13
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Apr 10 - L16
Memory Consistency Models
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Apr 12 - L17
On-chip Networking (I)
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Apr 14 - Tutorial Session
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Apr 17 - Patriots Day |
Apr 19 - L18
On-chip Networking (II)
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Apr 21 - Tutorial Session
Lab 3 DUE
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Apr 24 - L19
Reliability
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Apr 26 - L20
VLIW
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Apr 28 - Quiz 3
Up to L19
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May 1 - L21
SIMD and Vector Processors
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May 3 - L22
GPU Architectures
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May 5 - Tutorial Session
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May 8 - L23
Transactional Memory
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May 10 - L24
Virtualization
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May 12 - Tutorial Session
Lab 4 DUE
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May 15 - L25
Future Trends
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May 17 - Quiz 4
(In class) Up to L23
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* - Monday, Feb 20th is President's day. Class is moved to Tuesday.