| Date | Lecture | Readings | Due |
| Tue Aug 28 | L1: Introduction ppt pdf | Ch. 1, App. A | |
| Thu Aug 30 | L2: Metrics, ISAs, Pipelining ppt pdf | App. B | |
| Tue Sep 4 | L3: Memory Hierarchy Review ppt pdf | Practice quiz | Practice quiz solutions |
| Thu Sep 6 | Prerequisite Quiz | Prereq quiz solutions | |
| Tue Sep 11 | L4: Instruction-Level Parallelism, Part 1 ppt pdf | Ch. 2.1-2.6 | Reading #1, Part A: Summary of B5000 and IBM360 papers. |
| Thu Sep 13 | L5: Instruction-Level Parallelism, Part 2 ppt pdf | Ch. 2.7-2.12, Ch. 3.1-3.4 | Reading #1, Part B: Summary of RISC/CISC debate. |
| Tue Sep 18 | L6: VLIW, Statically Scheduled ILP ppt pdf | App. G | Reading #2: Limits of ILP summary. |
| Thu Sep 20 | L7: Vector Computers ppt pdf | App. F | |
| Tue Sep 25 | L8: Memory Systems ppt pdf | App. C.1-C-3 |
Email with project team and 1 page PDF proposal Reading #3: Vector and VLIW papers and appendices summary |
| Thu Sep 27 | L9: Virtual Memory ppt pdf | App. C.4-C.8, Ch. 5 | |
| Tue Oct 2 | No Lecture, Project Group Meetings | Midterm 1 Practice Problems | Midterm 1 Practice Solutions |
| Thu Oct 4 | No Lecture, Project Group Meetings | ||
| Tue Oct 9 | L10: Multiprocessors, Part 1 ppt pdf | Ch. 4 | |
| Thu Oct 11 | Midterm 1 (L1-L9) | La Vals, Pizza/Drinks at 7:00pm | |
| Tue Oct 16 | L11: Multiprocessors, Part 2 ppt pdf | ||
| Thu Oct 18 | L12: Multiprocessors, Part 3 ppt pdf | ||
| Tue Oct 23 | No Lecture, Project Group Meetings | ||
| Thu Oct 25 | No Lecture, Project Group Meetings |
Memory Models Problems
Memory Models Solutions |
Midterm 1 Solutions |
| Tue Oct 30 | L13: Multithreading ppt pdf | ||
| Thu Nov 1 | L14: Embedded Computing ppt pdf | App. D | |
| Tue Nov 6 | L15: Virtual Machines ppt pdf | Ch. 5.4-5.9 | Reading #4: Memory consistency models. |
| Thu Nov 8 | L16: IO Systems ppt pdf | Ch. 6 |
Snoopy Cache Problems
Snoopy Cache Solutions |
| Fri Nov 9 | ISCA Abstract Deadline | ||
| Tue Nov 13 | No Lecture, Project Group Meetings | ||
| Thu Nov 15 | No Lecture, Project Group Meetings |
Directory Protocol and Multithreading Problems
Directory Protocol and Multithreading Solutions |
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| Mon Nov 19 | ISCA Submission Deadline | ||
| Tue Nov 20 | Midterm 2 (L10-L16) | La Vals, Pizza/Drinks at 7:00pm | |
| Thu Nov 22 | Thanksgiving Vacation | ||
| Tue Nov 27 | L17: Parallel Architectures ppt pdf | App. H | Midterm 2 Solutions |
| Thu Nov 29 | No lecture. | ||
| Tue Dec 4 | No lecture. | ||
| Thu Dec 6 | Project presentations, all day | ||
| Mon Dec 10 | Final project papers due |