Class Schedule
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| Date | Reading Topic | Lecture | Deliverable | ||
| Th 9/21/06 | slides | ||||
| Tu 9/26/06 | Performance | Chapter 1, skip 1.4 | slides | ||
| Th 9/28/06 | ISA | Chapter 2 | slides | ||
| Tu 10/03/06 | Pipelining | Appendix A.1, A.3 | slides | HW 1, 11 am | |
| Th 10/05/06 | Data Hazards and Data Hazards | Appendix A.2, 3.1 | |||
| Tu 10/10/06 | Branch Prediction | 3.4 and 3.5 | slides | HW 2, 12 pm | |
| Th 10/12/06 | Exceptions & Multi-Cycle Exe Units | A.4, A.5, A.6 and 3.6 | |||
| Tu 10/17/06 | In-class Midterm exam | ||||
| Th 10/19/06 | ILP | 4.1, 4.4 | |||
| Tu 10/24/06 | Scoreboard | A.8 | slides | ||
| Th 10/26/06 | Tomasulo's Algorithm | 3.2-3.3 | slides | Project 1 (Due at noon) | |
| Tu 10/31/06 | Dynamic Scheduling Continued | slides | |||
| Th 11/02/06 | Reorder Buffer | 3.7 | slides | ||
| Tu 11/07/06 | Advanced ILP | 3.8-3.10, 4.3-4.7 | slides | ||
| Th 11/09/06 | Cache 1 | 5.1-5.3 | slides | HW 3, Noon | |
| Tu 11/14/06 | In-class Midterm exam | ||||
| Th 11/16/06 | Cache 2 | 5.4-5.9 | |||
| Tu 11/21/06 | Cache 3 | Project 2 (Due at noon) | |||
| Th 11/23/06 | NO CLASS (Thanksgiving) | ||||
| Tu 11/28/06 | Virtual Memory | 5.10-5.13 | slides | ||
| Th 11/30/06 | In-class Final (comprehensive) | ||||
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