Lec Date Subject Reading Homework
assigned due
1. 9/2 Introduction, terminology 1.1-1.6 HW1
2. 9/7 Performance, 2.1-2.5
3. 9/9 Benchmarks, 2.6-2.8 HW2 HW1
4. 9/14 CPU operation skim 3.1-3.7
read p117-121
5. 9/16 esim - project simulator web page HW3 HW2
6. 9/21 Instructions and registers skim 3.8-3.11
read p145-149
7. 9/23 Arithmetic 4.1-4.4 HW4 HW3
8. 9/28 ALU 4.5
9. 9/30 Multiply 4.6 HW5
10. 10/5 Divide 4.7 HW4
11. 10/7 Floating Point 4.8
12. 10/12 esim - circuits and debugging web page HW6 HW5
13. 10/14 Control Unit 5.1-5.3
14. 10/19 Microprogramming - review 5.4-5.5
15. 10/21 mid-term exam
16. 10/26 Pipelining 1 6.1 HW7 HW6
17. 10/28 Pipelining 2 6.2-6.3
18. 11/2 Project outline web page HW8 HW7
19. 11/4 Pipelining hazards 1 6.4-6.6 PROJ
20. 11/9 Pipelining hazards 2 " HW9 HW8
21. 11/11 Cache 7.1-7.2 PROJ 1/3
22. 11/16 Cache performance 7.3 HW10 HW9
23. 11/18 Virtual memory 1 7.4-7.5
24. 11/23 Virtual memory 2 " HW11
Thanksgiving
25. 11/30 Project layouts web page HW10
PROJ 2/3
26. 12/2 I/O types and performance 8.1-8.3 HW12 HW11
27. 12/7 Busses, I/O-processor connection 8.4-8.6
28. 12/9 Multiprocessors skim 9.1-9.4 HW12
29. 12/14 Review study PROJ 3/3
30. 12/21 Final Exam 1:00 - 3:00 (no other)
Last updated 11/22/99