CS552 Course Wiki: Spring 2021 : Course calendar and lecture notes browse

Date	Topic	Reading	Homework assigned
26-Jan	Introduction	Ch 1
28-Jan	Performance + Benchmarks and Amdhal Law	Ch 2.1 - 2.15	HW1
2-Feb	MIPS ISA	Skim Ch 2.17 and 2.18
4-Feb	Verilog Tutorial (slides above)	See slides and cheat sheet
9-Feb	Arithmetic & Logic	See slides and cheat sheet
11-Feb	Processor (datapath)	Ch 3 and Appendix B.1-B.6	HW2
16-Feb	Processor (control path)	Ch 3 and Appendix B.1-B.6
18-Feb	Processor (pipelining)	Ch 4.1 - 4.10
23-Feb	Processor (pipelining)	Ch 4.1 - 4.10	HW3
25-Feb	Processor (pipeline hazards)	Ch 4.1 - 4.10
2-Mar	Processor (pipeline hazards)	Ch 4.1 - 4.10
4-Mar	Processor (Superscalar)	Skim 4.11 and 4.12
9-Mar	Processor (MIPS R10000)	Ch 1.6 - 1.10	HW4
11-Mar	In class quiz
16-Mar	Cache concepts	no reading
18-Mar	Cache design	Ch 5.1-5.2
23-Mar	Cache design	Ch 5.3
25-Mar	Cache Performance	Ch 5.9
30-Mar	no class
1-Apr	no class
6-Apr	Virtual memory	CH 5.4-5.8	HW5
8-Apr	Virtual memory	CH 5.4-5.8
13-Apr	Virtual memory	review ch 5.8
15-Apr	Main memory and ECC	See ECC handout	HW6
20-Apr	IO	Ch 6.1-6.3
22-Apr	Parallel processors/shared memory
27-Apr	Advanced Arithmetic	Ch 6.4-6.5
29-Apr	GPU, Accelerators, etc	no reading
4-May	Final Report