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1. 1/28 Introduction, terminology 1.1-1.6 HW1
1/29
2. 1/30 Benchmarks, 2.1-2.5
1/31
3. 2/4 Performance, 2.6-2.8 HW2 HW1
2/5
4. 2/6 CPU operation skim 3.1-3.7
2/7 read p117-121 when books in HW1
5. 2/11 Instructions and registers skim 3.8-3.11 HW3 HW2
2/12 read p145-150
6. 2/13 VHDL introduction Ashen 1.1-1.5
2/14 (optional if you know VHDL) VHDL web pages
7. 2/18 Arithmetic 4.1-4.4 HW4 HW3
2/19 Ashen 8.5
8. 2/20 ALU 4.5
2/21
9. 2/25 Multiply 4.6 HW5
2/26 Ashen 6.1-6.3
10. 2/27 Divide 4.7 HW4*
2/28
11. 3/4 Floating Point 4.8
3/5
12. 3/6 VHDL - circuits and debugging VHDL web pages HW6 HW5
3/7 Ashen 18.1-18.2
13. 3/11 Control Unit 5.1-5.3
3/12
14. 3/13 Microprogramming - review 5.4-5.5
3/14
15. 3/18 mid-term exam study
3/19
16. 3/20 Pipelining 1 6.1 HW7 HW6 *
3/21
spring break
17. 4/1 Pipelining 2 6.2-6.3
4/2
18. 4/3 Project outline and VHDL VHDL web pages HW8 HW7
4/4 Ashen 5.1-5.5
19. 4/8 Pipelining Data Forwarding 6.4-6.6 PROJ
4/9
20. 4/10 Pipelining Hazards, stall " HW9 HW8
4/11
21. 4/15 Cache 7.1-7.2 Proj 1 *
4/16
22. 4/17 Cache performance 7.3 HW10 HW9
4/18
23. 4/22 Virtual memory 1 7.4-7.5
4/23 Proj 2a *
24. 4/24 Virtual memory 2 handout HW11 HW10
4/25
25. 4/28 I/O types and performance 8.1-8.3
4/29
26. 5/1 DVR, DVD-RW, CDR, CD-RW handout HW11
5/2 Proj 2b *
27. 5/6 Busses, I/O-processor connection 8.4-8.6 HW12
5/7
28. 5/8 Multiprocessors skim 9.1-9.4 Proj 3a *
5/9
29. 5/13 Review study HW12
5/14 Proj 3b *
30. 5/20 Final Exam 0101, Monday 6:00pm-8:00pm (no other)
5/21 Final Exam 0102, Tuesday 1:00pm-3:00pm (no other)
No late homework or project accepted after midnight 5/21
* submitted, not graded until next weekend (not late for a while)
Last updated 4/22/02