Wk |
Date |
Lecture Topic |
Reading |
Section |
Lab |
Assignment Due
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1
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08/29 F |
Course Intro: Great Ideas in Computer Architecture (Dan/Miki) |
None |
None
|
Lab 0: Introductions
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HW0: Introduce Yourself
Due Next Week in Lab (ie. 09/{3, 4, 5})
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2
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09/01 M |
Administrative Holiday (Labor Day) |
Section 0: Number Representation
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Lab 1: Number Representation
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HW1: C and Number Rep
Due 09/07 @ 23:59:59
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09/03 W |
Number Representation (Dan) |
(4th) P&H: 2.4 (5th) P&H: 2.4 Binary slides |
09/05 F |
C Intro: Basics (Dan) |
B. Harvey's Intro to C
K&R Ch. 1-4 |
3
|
09/08 M |
C Intro: Pointers, Arrays, Strings (Dan) |
K&R Ch. 5-6
C Reference Slides |
Section 1: C Basics
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Lab 2: C
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HW2: rgrep
Due 09/14 @ 23:59:59
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09/10 W |
MIPS Intro (Miki) |
(4th) P&H: 2.1-2.3 (5th) P&H: 2.1-2.3 |
09/12 F |
MIPS lw, sw, Decisions I (Miki) |
(4th) P&H: 2.9, 2.10 (only p.128-129) (5th) P&H: 2.9, 2.10 (only p.111-113) |
4
|
09/15 M |
MIPS Decisions II (Miki) |
(4th) P&H: 2.6, 2.7, 3.2 (5th) P&H: 2.6, 2.7, 3.2 |
Section 2: MIPS
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Lab 3: C Pointers and GDB
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HW3 Part 1: MIPS
Due 09/17 @ 23:59:59
|
09/17 W |
MIPS Instruction Format I (Miki) |
(4th) P&H: 2.5, 2.10 (5th) P&H: 2.5, 2.10 |
09/19 F |
MIPS Instruction Format II (Miki) |
Bonus Slides |
Project 1: C and MIPS
Part 1 Due 09/24 @ 23:59:59
Part 2 Due 10/01 @ 23:59:59
|
5
|
09/22 M |
MIPS Procedures I (Dan) |
(4th) P&H: 2.8 (p. 112-118) (5th) P&H: 2.8 (p. 96-102) |
Section 3: MIPS Control Flow and Instruction Formats
|
Lab 4: Memory Management and Assembly Practice
|
09/24 W |
MIPS Procedures II & Logic Ops (Dan) |
(4th) P&H: 2.8, B.6 (5th) P&H: 2.8, A.6 Bonus slides |
09/26 F |
Caches I (Miki) |
(4th) P&H: 5.1 (5th) P&H: 5.1, 5.2 |
6
|
09/29 M |
Caches II (Miki) |
(4th) P&H: 5.2 (p. 457-470) (5th) P&H: 5.3 |
Section 4: MIPS Procedures
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Lab 5: Function Calls and Pointers in MIPS
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10/01 W |
Caches III (Miki) |
(4th) P&H: 1.4, 5.3, 5.5 (5th) P&H: 1.6, 5.4, 5.8 Cache Flowchart |
10/03 F |
Floating Point (Dan) |
(4th) P&H: 3.5, 3.8 (5th) P&H: 3.5. 3.9 IEEE 754 Simulator |
HW3 Part 2: FP, Caches
Due 10/05 @ 23:59:59
|
10/04 Sa |
1-4pm, 2050 VLSB: HKN Midterm Review Session |
10/05 Su |
1-3pm, 2050 VLSB: TA Midterm Part 1 Review Session |
7
|
10/06 M |
Compilation, Assembly, Linking, and Loading (Dan) |
(4th) P&H: 2.12, B.1-B.4 (5th) P&H: 2.12, A.1-A.4 |
Section 5: Caches
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Lab 6: Cache Blocking
|
[MT Studying]
|
10/08 W |
Datacenters and Cloud Computing (Dan) |
Warehouse-Scale Computers:
Ch 1, Ch 3, 5.1-5.3 |
10/10 F |
Midterm Part 1 (in-class) |
10/10 F |
4-5pm, Wheeler Auditorium: Midterm Part 1 Walkthrough (optional) |
10/12 Su |
1-3pm, 155 Dwinelle: TA Midterm Part 2 Review Session |
8
|
10/13 M |
MapReduce (Dan) |
Warehouse-Scale Computers: Ch 2.4 |
Section 6: Floating Point, C.A.L.L.
|
Lab 7: MapReduce, Hadoop, and Spark
|
[MT Studying]
|
10/15 W |
Flynn Taxonomy, Intel SIMD Instructions (Miki) |
(4th) P&H: 1.5, 1.6, 7.1, 7.2, 7.4, 7.6 (5th) P&H: 1.7, 1.8, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.7 |
10/17 F |
Midterm Part 2 (in-class) |
10/17 F |
4-5pm, Wheeler Auditorium: Midterm Part 2 Walkthrough (optional) |
9
|
10/20 M |
Intel SIMD Continued, Thread Level Parallelism (Miki) |
(4th) P&H: 7.3, 5.8 (5th) P&H: 6.5, 5.10 |
Section 7: MapReduce and WSC
|
Lab 8: Intel SIMD
|
Project 2: MapReduce
Part 1 Due 10/27 @ 23:59:59
Part 2 Due 11/02 @ 23:59:59
|
10/22 W |
Thread Level Parallelism (Miki) |
(4th) P&H: 2.11 (5th) P&H: 2.11 |
10/24 F |
Thread Level Parallelism, OpenMP (Miki) |
OpenMP summary card |
10
|
10/27 M |
Intro to Synchronous Digital Systems (Miki) |
SDS Handout |
Section 8: Cache Coherence and Synchronization
|
Lab 9: Thread Parallelism
|
10/29 W |
State and State Machines (Dan) |
(4th) P&H: 4.2, C.3-C.6 (on CD)
(5th) P&H: 4.2, B.3-B.6
State Handout
|
10/31 F |
Combinational Logic (Dan) |
(4th) P&H: C.2-C.3 (on CD) (5th) P&H: B.2-B.3
Logic Handout |
11
|
11/03 M |
Combinational Logic Blocks (Dan) |
Blocks Handout |
Section 9: Logic and SDS
|
Lab 10: Logisim
|
HW4: Digital Design and FSMs
Due 11/09 @ 23:59:59
|
11/05 W |
Single Cycle CPU Datapath (Shreyas) |
(4th) P&H: 4.1, 4.3 (5th) P&H: 4.1, 4.3 |
11/07 F |
Single Cycle CPU Control (Sagar) |
(4th) P&H: 4.4 (5th) P&H: 4.4 |
12
|
11/10 M |
Single Cycle CPU Control II (Miki) |
(4th) P&H: 4.5, 4.6 (5th) P&H: 4.5, 4.6 |
Section 10: Single Cycle Datapath
|
Lab 11: More Logisim
|
Project 3: Performance Optimization
Part 1 Due 11/18 @ 23:59:59
Part 2 Due 11/23 @ 23:59:59
|
11/12 W |
ILP: Pipelining (Dan) |
(4th) P&H: 4.7, 4.8 (5th) P&H: 4.7, 4.8 |
11/14 F |
ILP: Pipelining Hazards (Dan) |
(4th) P&H: 4.10, 4.11 (5th) P&H: 4.10, 4.11 |
13
|
11/17 M |
ILP: Multiple Instruction Issue (Dan) |
(4th) P&H: 5.4 (5th) P&H: 5.7 |
Section 11: Pipelining
|
Lab 12: Project 4 Prelude
|
11/19 W |
Virtual Memory I (Miki) |
(4th) P&H: 5.10-5.12 (5th) P&H: 5.13, 5.15, 5.16 |
11/21 F |
Virtual Memory II (Miki) |
None |
14
|
11/24 M |
Virtual Memory III (Miki) |
(4th) P&H: 6.1, 6.5
(5th) P&H: 6.9 (only p.1-4) |
Section 12: Virtual Memory
|
Lab: None
|
Project 3: Performance Optimization
(Optional)
Due 12/04 @ 11:59:59
Project 4: Processor
Due 12/07 @ 23:59:59
|
11/26 W |
I/O: Basics and Interrupts (Dan) |
(4th) P&H: 6.6, 4.9
(5th) P&H: 6.9 (only p.4-10), 4.9 |
11/28 F |
Administrative Holiday (Thanksgiving) |
15
|
12/01 M |
I/O: Disks (Rohan) |
(4th) P&H: 6.2-6.4, 6.9
(5th) 5.2, 5.5 (only p.418-419), 5.11
Berkeley RAID Paper
|
Section 13: Virtual Memory II, I/O
|
Lab 13: Virtual Memory
|
12/03 W |
I/O: Networks (Dan) |
"Blown to Bits" Appendix A: The Internet as System and Spirit |
12/05 F |
Summary and Goodbye (Dan/Miki) |
None |
RRR
|
12/8 M |
TA Final Exam Review: 12:00pm-3:00pm, 155 Dwinelle |
12/12 F |
HKN Final Exam Review: 12:30pm-2:30pm, Anna Head Alumnae Hall |
Finals
|
12/16 Tu |
Final Exam: 7:00pm-10:00pm, Wheeler Auditorium
|