Class Schedule -- Subject to Change
Tentative Schedule
Topics to be convered:
Fundamentals of Computer Design (Chapter 1, one week)
Organization and Pipeline Review (Appendix B and A, two weeks)
Instruction-Level Parallelism and Its Exploitation(Chapter 2, two weeks)
Limits on Instruction-Level Parallelism (Chapter 3, one week)
Cache and Virtual Memory Overview, Appendix C (one week)
Multiprocessors and Thread-Level Parallelism (Chapter 4, two weeks)
Memory Design(Chapter 5, two weeks)
Storage Systems (Chapter 6, one week)
Midterm: March 4, 2009
Final: Apr 22, 2009