| Date | Topic | Reading | Week# |
| 1/22 | Welcome & course introduction Fundamentals of Computer Design 
Chapter 1 slides
Homework 1
Unix & C lab (Makefile,
mm.c, dot.profile,
dot.bashrc)Unix & C lab time
Moore's Law paper (1965) |
Chapter 1 |
1 |
| 1/29 | Instruction Set Principles & Examples
Appendix B slides
Workshop 1 Video: "Machine that Changed the World" VT787 VHS (pt. 1) Screening location: Mendel 115, 8-9pm
Intel 45 nm Transistor press release
Intel 45 nm Fun Facts
Intel Transistor History backgrounder
Intel Transistor glossary
Intel Presentation slides (selected) |
Appendix B |
2 |
| 2/05 | Pipelining
Appendix A slides
Research Paper Project
assignment
Research Paper formatting guidelines
Research Paper templateWorkshop lab time |
Appendix A | 3 |
| 2/12 | Instruction-Level Parallelism
Chapter 2 slides
Homework 2 Workshop lab time Homework 1 DUE |
Chapter 2 |
4 |
| 2/19 | Instruction-Level Parallelism (cont'd)
Workshop 2
(Makefile,
memtime.c) Workshop 1 DUE Workshop lab time |
5 | |
| 2/26 | Limits on Instruction-Level Parallelism
Chapter 3 slides Research Paper Topic Due Video: "Machine that Changed the World" (part 2) 8:00-9:00 |
Chapter 3 |
6 |
| 3/05 |
Semester Recess - no class |
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| 3/12 | Multiprocessors and Thread-Level Parallelism
Chapter 4 slides
MPI program example
Amdahl's Law paper (1967) |
Chapter 4 |
7 |
| 3/19 | Multiprocessors and Thread-Level Parallelism (cont'd)
Workshop 3 Workshop lab time Homework 2 DUE |
8 | |
| 3/26 | Review of Memory Hierarchy
Appendix C slides
Cache handout Workshop lab time Workshop 2 DUE |
Appendix C | 9 |
| 4/02 | Memory Hierarchy Design
Chapter 5 slides
Homework 3 |
Chapter 5 | 10 |
| 4/09 |
Easter Break - no class |
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| 4/16 | Memory Hierarchy Design (cont'd)
IBM Extends Moore's Law to
the Third Dimension Workshop lab time Research Paper Due (electronically) |
11 | |
| 4/23 | Storage Systems
Chapter 6 slides Workshop 3 DUE |
Chapter 6 |
12 |
| 4/30 | Storage Systems (cont'd) Homework 3 DUE Advanced Topics
Advance Topics slidesVideo: "Machine that Changed the World" (part 3) [MSC154] |
13 | |
| 5/07 | Final Exam Monday May 7, 2007 7:00pm-9:30pm |
14 |