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Grading

Problem Sets:     30%

Midterm Exam:  20%

Small Project:    20%

Final Exam:        30%

Meeting Times

Tuesdays & Thursdays

11am-12:15pm

SN155

Instructor

Prof. Montek Singh

FB234 (Brooks Building)

Office Hours:  TBA

HOMEWORK

Homework 1 (due Feb 19)

Homework 2 (due Mar 3)

Homework 3 (due Apr 9)

Mini Project (due Apr 23)

Lecture Slides

Lecture 1:  Introduction (Jan 13)

1. Reading:  Ch. 1.1-1.4
   

2. Reading:  Moore’s original paper
   

Lecture 2:  Fundamentals and Trends (Jan 15-20)

1. Reading:  Ch. 1.5-1.13
   

Lecture 3:  Quantitative Principles of Computer Design (Jan 22)

1. Reading:  Ch. 1
   

Lecture 4:  Instruction Set Architecture (Jan 29)

1. Reading:  Appendix B
   

Lecture 5:  Pipelining I:  Basics (Feb 3)

1. Reading:  Appendix A
   

Lecture 6:  Pipelining II:  Intermediate Concepts (Feb 5)

1. Reading:  Appendix A
   

Lecture 7:  Pipelining III:  Control Hazards (Feb 10)

1. Reading:  Appendix A
   

Lecture 8:  Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP) I:  Scoreboarding (Feb 12)

1. Reading:  Appendix A.4-A.7
   

Lecture 9:  ILP II:  Tomasulo’s Algorithm (Feb 17)

1. Reading:  Ch. 2.4-2.5
   

Lecture 10:  ILP III:  Branch Prediction (Feb 19)

1. Reading:  Ch. 2.3
   

Lecture 11:  ILP IV:  Compiler Techniques (Feb 24-Mar 3)

1. Reading:  Ch. 2.1-2.2
   

Midterm Exam (Mar 5)

Lecture 12:  Multiple Issue and Speculation (Mar 17)

1. Reading:  Ch. 2.6-2.10
   

Lecture 13:  Case Studies:  Pentium and Itanium (Mar 19)

1. Reading:  Ch. 2.10-2.13, Appendix G
   

Lecture 14:  Limits to ILP; Intro to Thread-Level Parallelism (Mar 26)

1. Reading:  Ch. 3
   

Lecture 15:  Vector Processors (Mar 31)

1. Reading:  Appendix F
   

Lecture 16:  Multiprocessors I (Apr 2)

1. Reading:  Ch. 4.1
   

Lecture 17:  Introduction to Caches (Apr 7-9)

1. Reading:  Appendix C
   

Lecture 18:  Cache Consistency (Apr 14)

1. Reading:  Ch. 4.2-4.3
   

2. Self-Study:  Skim Ch. 4.4-4.5, Directory-Based Methods
   

Lecture 19:  Memory (DRAM) (Apr 16)

1. Reading:  Ch. 5.3
   

Lecture 20:  Storage (Apr 21)

Lecture 21:  Virtual Memory (Apr 23)

1. Reading:  Appendix C
   

Final Exam (Apr 29)