Schedule (Tentative)
The following is my best guess as to the schedule for this term. Slide decks will be available shortly after each lecture.
Date | Topics | Reading | Assignments |
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Overview | |||
Thur. Jan. 18 | Introduction | Chapter 1 | Get an account and set it up; |
Data Representation | |||
Tues. Jan. 23 | Binary and Integers | Chapter 2 |
A1: datalab (bit twiddling) out; Main assignment due in 10 days; |
Thur. Jan. 25 | Integers | A1 trivia due midnight tomorrow; | |
Tues. Jan. 30 | Floating Point | ||
Assembly-level Programs | |||
Thur. Feb. 1 | Overview, Data Movement Instructions | Chapter 3 | A1 due midnight tomorrow; A2: the binary bomb out; Main assignment due in 15 days; |
Tues. Feb. 6 | Addressing Mode, Compute Instructions, Control Instructions | A2 trivia due, noon; | |
Thur. Feb. 8 | Control Instructions | ||
Tues. Feb. 13 | Control Instructions, Subroutines | ||
Thur. Feb. 15 | Data Structures, Buffer Overflow | A2 due midnight tomorrow; A3: the buffer bomb out; Main assignment due in 15 days; | |
Processor Architecture | |||
Tues. Feb. 20 | Circuits | Chapter 4 intro; “asides” on RISC/CISC; Section 4.2 | A3 trivia due, noon; |
Thur. Feb. 22 | Instruction Encoding, Single-Cycle Implementation | Skim Figures 4.22 and 4.23; Section 4.3 | |
Tues. Feb. 27 | Single-cycle, Pipelining | Skim Figures 4.40, 4.41, 4.52; Sections 4.4, 4.5 | |
Thurs. Mar. 1 | Advanced Pipelining, Modern Processors | Sections 4.5.13, 4.6, 5.7 | A3 due midnight tomorrow; |
Optimizing Performance | |||
Tues. Mar. 6 | Performance Metric Compiler Optimizations | Chapter 5 | |
Thur. Mar. 8 | Midterm Exam | ||
Mar. 13 & 15 | UR Spring Break | ||
The Storage Hierarchy | |||
Tues. Mar. 20 | Memory Technology and Hierarchy | Chapter 6.1.1 and 6.1.4; skim 6.1.2 and 6.1.3 |
A4: tuning performance out; Main assignment due in 15 days; |
Thur. Mar. 22 | Caching | Chapter 6.2, 6.3. Study 6.4 carefully | A4 trivia due, noon; Cache Problem Set (no turn-in required) |
Tues. Mar. 27 | Cache-oriented Performance Tuning | Chapter 6.5, 6.6 | |
Exceptional Control Flow | |||
Thur. Mar. 29 | Interrupts, Exceptions, and Bus | Chapter 8.1 | |
Tues. Apr. 3 | Processes | Chapter 8.2, 8.3 | A4 due midnight yesterday; A5: Unix shell out; Main assignment due in 13 days; |
Thur. Apr. 5 | Signals, Non-local Jumps | Chapter 8.4, 8.5 | A5 trivia due, noon; |
Virtual Memory | |||
Tues. Apr. 10 | Address Translation | Chapter 9.1 ~ 9.6 | |
Thur. Apr. 12 | Advanced Address Translation, Core i7/Linux Case Study | Chapter 9.6, 9.7 | |
Tues. Apr. 17 | Memory Management | Chapter 9.8, 9.9 | A5 due midnight yesterday; A6: memory allocation out; Main assignment due in 14 days; |
Thur. Apr. 19 | Advanced Memory Management | Chapters 9.8, 9.9, 9.10 | A6 trivia due, noon; |
Concurrency | |||
Tues. Apr. 24 | Threads, Semaphores | Chapter 12 (skim all; read 12.3, 12.4, and 12.5) | |
Thur. Apr. 26 | Deadlock, Parallelism, Hardware Support for Concurrency | 12.5, 12.6, 12.7 | A6 due midnight Apr. 30; |
Tues. May. 1 | Recent Computing Trends, Victory Lap | ||
Tue. May 8 | Final Exam | 19:15, WH 1400 |