Bradley Thwaites (bthwaites [AT] gatech [DOT] edu),
Divya Mahajan (divya_mahajan [AT] gatech [DOT] edu)
| Week |
Topics | Assignments/Notes |
| 1 |
Course introduction, Metrics, Review
pipeline H&P AppA/Ch1 or Baer
Ch1/Ch2 |
Lab#1 due |
| 2 |
Branch Predictor | |
| 3 |
Memory Hierarchy |
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| 4 |
Memory Systems |
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| 5 |
New memory technologies, prefetcher |
Lab#2 due |
| 6 |
Guest Lecture |
SubmitOnlyHW1 Due (Feb 9 Mon) Midterm I (Feb 12 Thur) |
| 7 |
Instruction-level parallelism (I) | |
| 8 |
Thread-level Parallelism |
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| 9 |
Thread-level Parallelism |
Lab#3 Due |
| 10 |
Cache coherences |
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| 11 |
SPRING BREAK | |
| 12 |
Data-level parallelism |
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| 13 |
Power |
Lab#4 Due (Tue) |
| 14 |
Storage and Reliability |
Midterm-II (Apr 7) SubmitOnlyHW1 Due (Apr 5 Sun) |
| 15 |
Static exploitation of ILP &
Predication and VLIW |
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| 16 |
Case Study Review |
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| Final Exam |
April 28 |