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)
Cache and Virtual Memory Overview, Appendix C (one week)
Limits on Instruction-Level Parallelism (Chapter 3, one week)
Multiprocessors and Thread-Level Parallelism (Chapter 4, 1.5 weeks)
Memory Design(Chapter 5, 1.5 weeks)
Midterm: March 10, 2010
Final: Apr 30, 2010