Syllabus

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The Course

	Month/Day	Weekday	Topic	Reading	Assignments and Deadlines
1	Sept 1	T	Introduction to Computer Architecture course	Read Ch. 1
2	Sept 3	R	Intro: Measuring Performance	Lesson 2 Read ahead Ch. 2.1 - 2.3	HW1: p.56 n.1.1, 1.3, 1.4 Deadline: Sept 8
3	Sept 8	T	MIPS – Ch.2.3 – 2.5	Lesson 3 Read Ch. ahead 2.3 - 2.5	HW2: p.69 n1.13, 1.14, 1.15 Deadline: Sept 15
4	Sept 10	R	Video Lecture
5	Sept 15	T	MIPS – Ch.2.6 – 2.9	Read Ch. 2.6 - 2.9 Lesson 4
6	Sept 17	R	Professor sick - no class
7	Sept 22	T	Complete proceure calls.Arithmetic for Computers: MIPS for ALU	Complete reading Ch 2. Skip sect 2.16-2.17 - Start reading Ch. 3.1 - 3.3 Lesson 5	HW3: p.180 n.2.2, 2.4(a), 2.7, 2.18(a), 2.20.1(note: only .1) Deadline: Sept 29 - 2 additional points for any early returning day up to 8 additional points for those who return it by Sept 24.
8	Sept 24	R	Arithmetic for Computers:Overflow, Sign Extension,	Before next class read 3.4-3.6 and 3.8 Lesson 6
9	Sept 29	T	Review
10	Oct 1	R	Exam 1
11	Oct 6	T	Multiplication, Division	Lesson 7
12	Oct 8	R	Floating Point	Lesson 8 Read Ch. 4	HW4: From 3.11 Exercises page 283, solve 3.1-3.2-3.3-3.10 Deadline: Oct 15
13	Oct 13	T	The Datapath and Control	Lesson 9
14	Oct 15	R	The Datapath and Control (cont.)
15	Oct 20	T	Review
16	Oct 22	R	Multicycle Datapath
17	Oct 27	T	No class - Do the issued assignment		HW5:From 4.16 Exercises, page 409, solve 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.4(4.4.1, 4.4.1 and 4.4.3 for part a) only), 4.6.1-2-3, 4.11(a. only) Deadline: Oct 29
18	Oct 29	R	Pipelining
19	Nov 3	T	Data Hazard
20	Nov 5	R	Control Hazards -  Reducing Branch cost
21	Nov 10	T	Review
22	Nov 12	R	Exam 2
23	Nov 17	T	Exploiting Memory Hierarchy	Lesson 10 Read 5.1-5.2
24	Nov 19	R	Cache and Improving Cache Performance	Read ahead 5.3 and 5.5	HW7: Deadline: Dec 1
25	Nov 23	T	Cache and Improving Cache Performance
	Nov 25-29		Thanksgiving Recess
26	Dec 1	T	Virtual Memory Support Hardware	Read ahead 5.4
27	Dec 3	R	Virtual Memory completion - Review	Read ahead Ch. 6	HW8: Deadline: Dec 8
28	Dec 8	T	Storage and Other I/O topics
29	Dec 10	R	Review for final
30	Dec 15	T	1:00 pm - 3:00pm - Final Exam

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