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Feb 4 - L01
History of Calculation and Computer Architecture
Take Self-Assessment Test!
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Feb 6 - Tutorial Session
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Feb 9
Class cancelled due to snow storm
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Feb 11 - L02
Influence of Technology and Software on Instruction Sets: Up to the dawn of IBM 360
Self-Assessment Test DUE
Lab 0 DUE
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Feb 13 - Tutorial Session
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Tuesday Feb 17* - L03
Hardwired, Single-cycle ISA Implementation
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Feb 18 - L04
Instruction Pipelining and Hazards
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Feb 20 - Tutorial Session
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Feb 23 - L05
Instruction Pipelining: Hazard Resolution and Timing Constraints
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Feb 25 - L06
Cache Organization
Lab 1 DUE
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Feb 27 - L07
Memory Management: From Absolute Addresses to Demand Paging
Snow day makeup lecture for Feb.9
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Mar 2 - L08
Modern Virtual Memory and Virtualization
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Mar 4 - L09
Complex Pipelining: Superscalar and Scoreboarding
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Mar 6 - Quiz 1
Up to L08
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Mar 9 - L10
Out of Order Execution and Register Renaming
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Mar 11 - L11
Branch Prediction
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Mar 13 - Tutorial Session
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Mar 16 - L12
Speculative Execution and Recovery
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Mar 18 - L13
Advanced Memory Operations
Lab 2 DUE
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Mar 20 - Tutorial Session
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Mar 23 - SPRING BREAK
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Mar 25 - SPRING BREAK
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Mar 27 - SPRING BREAK
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Mar 30 - L14
Multithreading
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Apr 1 - L15
On-chip Networking (I)
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Apr 3 - Quiz 2
Up to L14
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Apr 6 - L16
On-chip Networking (II)
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Apr 8 - L17
Synchronization and Sequential Consistency
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Apr 10 - Tutorial Session
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Apr 13 - L18
Snoopy Cache Coherence
Lab 3 DUE
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Apr 15 - L19
Directory Cache Coherence
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Apr 17 - Tutorial Session
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Apr 20 - Patriots' Day
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Apr 22 - L20
Transactional Memory
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Apr 24 - Quiz 3
Up to L19
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Apr 27 - L21
VLIW
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Apr 29 - L22
SIMD and Vector Processors
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May 1 - Tutorial Session
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May 4 - L23
GPU Architectures
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May 6 - L24
Reliability
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May 8 - Tutorial Session
Lab 4 DUE
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May 11 - L25
Future Trends
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May 13 - Quiz 4
(In class)
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* - Monday, Feb 16th is President's day. Class is moved to Tuesday.