EECE 343/292-02: Digital Systems Architecture

2004 Spring Semester

Date Lecture Topic Assigned Reading Special Event
Jan. 14 What is A Quantitative Approach?    
Jan. 16 Trends in Technology and Cost H & P Chapter 1  
Jan. 19 Evaluating Performance   Homework #1 Assigned
Jan. 21 Instruction Set Architecture H & P Chapter 2 Reading Assignment #1
Jan. 23 Instruction Set Architecture Part 2    
Jan. 26 DSP's and Media Processors H & P Appendix A Homework #1 Solutions
Jan. 28 Pipelining    
Jan. 30 Pipelining Part 2   Reading Assignment #2
Feb. 2 Exceptions and Interrupts   Project #1 Assigned
Feb. 4 Dynamic Scheduling and Scoreboarding H & P Chapter 3 Homework #2 Assigned
Feb. 6 Tomasulo’s Algorithm    
Feb. 9 More Tomasulo’s Algorithm and ILP   Sample Exam Problems
Feb. 11 Branch Prediction    
Feb. 13 Branch Prediction Reloaded    
Feb. 16 Exam 1 Review   Homework #2 Solutions
Feb. 18 EXAM 1   Reading Assignment #3
Feb. 20 Solutions to Exam 1   Exam 1 Solutions
Feb. 23 NO CLASS    
Feb. 25 Predication, Prediction, and Speculation    
Feb. 27 Decreasing Ideal CPI    
Mar. 1 Limitations to ILP H & P Chapter 4 Project 2 Information
Mar. 3 Software Approaches to ILP    
Mar. 5 Software Approaches to ILP Part 2    
Mar. 8 NO CLASS   SPRING BREAK
Mar. 10 NO CLASS   SPRING BREAK
Mar. 12 NO CLASS   SPRING BREAK
Mar. 15 Processor Case Studies H & P Chapter 5 Reading Assignment #4
Mar. 17     Class presentations
Mar. 19      
Mar. 22 Memory Hierarchy Design - Caches   Reading Assignment #5
Mar. 24 Need More Cache?   Homework #3 Assigned
Mar. 26 More Money, More Cache, More Chillin’    
Mar. 29 Improving Cache Performance    
Mar. 31 Main Memory   Supplemental material on branch folding
Apr. 2 Main Memory Part 2   Reading Assignment #6
Apr. 5 Exam 2 Review   Homework #3 Solutions
Apr. 7 EXAM 2    
Apr. 9 Solutions to Exam 2 H & P Chapter 6 Exam 2 Solutions

Project 3 Information
Apr. 12 Multiprocessors and TLP   Reading Assignment #7
Apr. 14 Multiprocessors and TLP Part 2   Appendix I from H & P textbook
Apr. 16 Cache Coherency    
Apr. 19 Coherency and Consistency H & P Chapter 7 Reading Assignment #8
Apr. 21 I/O and Storage Systems   Homework #4 Assigned
Apr. 23 Dependability and RAID   Homework #4 Solutions
Apr. 26 Final Exam Review   LAST DAY OF CLASS
Apr. 30 FINAL EXAMINATION   Exam Time: 9am - 12pm

 

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