The following syllabus gives you a rough idea of the time spent on each topic. The syllabus may change depending on how quickly or slowly we move. Regardless, the tests and exams will be on the dates shown. Make any travel plans accordingly.
| Week | Topics | Assignments & Exams | Supplement Materials |
| Week 1: 01/14 |
Course introduction; CInstruction Set Architecture: ISA design; |
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| Week 2: 01/21 |
Instruction Set Architecture: impact on design; Computer Arithmetic: binary representations; |
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| Week 3: 01/28 |
Labor Day; Computer Arithmetic: math in binary; Computer Arithmetic: transistors; |
Assignment 1: Instruction Set due. |
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| Week 4: 02/04 |
Computer Arithmetic: ALU design; Performance Models and Metrics |
Assignment 2: Assembly Programming Due; | |
| Week 5: 02/11 |
Basic CPU Implementation Instruction Level Parallelism: Pipelines; |
Assignment 3: ALU design Due; | |
| Week 6: 02/18 |
Instruction Level Parallelism: Pipelines; |
Midterm Exam 1 on 02/20th, in class. | |
| Week 7: 02/25 |
Instruction Level Parallelism: Branch Prediction; Out-of-Order Execution: Scoreboard |
Assignment 4: Pipelines and Superscalar Due | |
| Week 8: 03/04 |
Out-of-Order Execution: Tomasulo Algorithm; Out-of-Order Execution: Reorder Buffer |
Assignment 5: Branch Prediction due; |
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| Week 9: 03/11 |
Spring Break; |
Assignment 6: TLB due; |
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| Week 10: 03/18 |
Limitations on ILP Introduction to Cache Project Information; |
Assignment 7: Cache 1 due. | |
| Week 11: 03/25 |
Cache Designs |
Midterm Exam 2 on 03/27th, in class | |
| Week 12: 04/01 |
Cache Designs |
Project Progress Report. | |
| Week 13: 04/08 |
Virtual Memory |
Assignment 8: Cache 2 due. | |
| Week 14: 04/15 |
Memory Controller and DRAM |
Assignment 9: DRAM due; | |
| Week 15: 04/22 |
Parallel Processor: GPU |
Project Due. | |
| Week 16: 04/29 |
Bing and FPGA;slides TPU;slides Resource Disaggregation: Berkley Firebox; MS RSC; Microservices; HP: The Machine; Intel RSC; LegoOS Wrap-up |
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| Final Exam | May 8th, 2019, 6:00-8:30 pm. |