Important Dates
- Mid term 1: March 10
- Final Project demo: May 9
- Final exam: May 12
This course's text readings will cover Chapters 1 through 5, Appendix A, B, and Appendix C. The list of subsections omitted will be updated below (interested students can skim over them).
- 2.16 through 2.18
- 4.11, 4.12
- 5.13
| Date
| Topic
| Reading
| Homework assigned
| Homework due
| Solutions
| Project
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| 19-Jan
| Introduction
| Ch 1
| HW0
| HW0
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| 21-Jan
| Instructions 1
| Ch 2.1 - 2.15
| HW1
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| SOLN-HW1
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| 26-Jan
| Instructions 2 (slides above)
| Skim Ch 2.17 and 2.18
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| 28-Jan
| Verilog Tutorial
| See slides and cheat sheet
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| 2-Feb
| Verilog Tutorial (slides above)
| See slides and cheat sheet
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| 4-Feb
| Arithmetic (Design)
| Ch 3 and Appendix B.1-B.6
| HW2
| HW1
| SOLN-HW2
| Form project team (Feb 8th)
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| 9-Feb
| Arithmetic (Implementation)
| Ch 3 and Appendix B.1-B.6
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| 11-Feb
| Processor (datapath)
| Ch 4.1 - 4.10
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| 16-Feb
| Processor (Control path)
| Ch 4.1 - 4.10
| HW3
| HW2
| SOLN-HW3
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| 18-Feb
| Processor (Pipelining 1)
| Ch 4.1 - 4.10
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| 23-Feb
| Processor (Pipelining 2)
| Ch 4.1 - 4.10
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| Project plan
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| 25-Feb
| Processor (Pipelining 3)
| Skim 4.11 and 4.12
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| 1-Mar
| Performance analysis
| Ch 1.6 - 1.10
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| 3-Mar
| Miscellaneous
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| HW4
| HW3
| SOLN-HW4
| Design Review
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| 8-Mar
| Mid term review
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| 10-Mar
| Mid term 1
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| 15-Mar
| Memory 1
| Ch 5.1-5.2
| HW5
| HW4
| SOLN-HW5
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| 17-Mar
| Memory 2
| Ch 5.3
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| Demo 1
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| 22-Mar
| Spring break
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| 24-Mar
| Spring break
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| 29-Mar
| Memory 3
| Ch 5.9
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| 31-Mar
| Memory 4
| CH 5.4-5.8
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| 5-Apr
| Memory 5
| CH 5.4-5.8
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| 7-Apr
| No class
| review ch 5.8
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| 12-Apr
| Storage
| Ch 5.11
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| Demo 2
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| 14-Apr
| Error correction codes
| See ECC handout
| HW6
| HW5
| SOLN-HW6
| Cache FSM turnin
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| 19-Apr
| Multiprocessors 1
| Ch 6.1-6.3
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| 21-Apr
| Multiprocessors 2
| Ch 6.4-6.5
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| Cache Demo
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| 26-Apr
| GPU
| Ch 6.6
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| 28-Apr
| OOO (1)
| no reading
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| 3-May
| OOO (2)
| no reading
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| 5-May
| Final review
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| HW6
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| 9-May
| Final demo
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| Final demo
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| 10-May
| Final Report
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| Final report
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| 12-May
| Final Exam
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