CS 352 Lecture Notes

CS 352: Lecture Schedule and Notes


Date	Lecture	Topic	Read BEFORE class	Posted	Due
1/19	1	Introduction; What is Computer Architecture?
1/21	2	Computer Abstrations & Technology	P&H 1.1-3, 1.5-6	HW 1
1/26	3	Basic Performance Concepts	P&H 1.4, 1.7-9
1/28	4	Finish Performance - Start ISA I	P&H 2.1-5	HW 2
2/2	5	ISA II	P&H 2.6-9		HW 1
2/4	6	ISA III	P&H 2.10-15
2/9	7	ISA IV	P&H 2.16-19	HW 3	HW 2
2/11	8	Computer Arithmetic	P&H 3.1-9
2/16	9	Review for Exam I			HW 3
2/18	Exam	Exam I (covers Lectures 1-9, HW 1, 2, & 3)
2/23	10	Simple Datapath	P&H 4.1-4	HW 4
2/25	11	Pipelining I	P&H 4.5-6
3/2	12	Pipelining II - Data Hazards & Forwarding	P&H 4.7
3/4	13	Pipelining III - Control Hazards	P&H 4.8-9	HW 5	HW 4
3/9	14	Multi-issue & Superscalar Processors	P&H 4.10-14
3/11	15	Caches I	P&H 5.1-3, 5.5	HW 6	HW 5
SPRING BREAK
3/23	16	Caches II	P&H 5.7-10
3/25	17	Virtual memory I	P&H 5.4	HW 7	HW 6
3/30	18	Virtual memory II	P&H 5.6, 5.11-13
4/1	19	Exam Review			HW 7
4/6	Exam	Exam II (covers Lecture 10-19, HW 4, 5, 6, & 7)
4/8	20	Exam Post Mortem		Project
4/13	21	Storage	P&H 6.1-4, 6.7-9
4/15	22	Interconnects and Input/Output	P&H 6.6-6, 6.14, 6.12-14
4/20	23	Multiprocessors I	P&H 7.1-5
4/22	24	Multiprocessors II	P&H 7.6-13
4/27		Doug Burger (Microsoft): Explicit Dataflow Graph Architectures
4/29	25	Success in science now, in graduate school, & beyond		HW 8	Project
5/4		Bill Mark (Intel): Future Graphics Architectures
5/6	26	Course Evaluation; Review for Final Exam III			HW 8
5/13	Exam	9am-12pm: GAR 0.102 Comprehensive Final

Acknowledgments. Thanks to Dave Patterson, John Hennessy, Doug Burger, Steve Keckler, and Bill Mark for their lecture notes and class materials.