====== Course Outline ======

The course outline is a guideline to topics that will be discussed in the course, and when they will be discussed:

**====== Week of Monday Sept. 7, 2009 ======**


Performance {{:lec01_performance.pdf|}}

===== Week 2  Sept. 14 2009 =====
Basic Pipelining {{:Module2_pipelining.pdf|}}

===== Week 3 Sept. 21 2009=====

Continue with pipelining

===== Week 4 Sept. 28 2009 =====
Instruction Level Parallelism ILP
{{:module3_lip_loops.pdf|}}

===== Week 5 Oct. 5, 2009 =====
More on Instruction level parallelism scoreboard {{:module4_scoreboard.pdf|}}
 

===== Week 6 Oct 12, 2009 =====
Reading week. No classes

===== Week 7  Oct. 19, 2009 =====
Tomasulo's algorithm {{:module5_tomasulo.pdf|}}

===== Week 8 Oct 26, 2009 =====
Midterm is on Oct. 27

===== Week 9 Nov. 2, 2009 =====
More on instruction level parallelism {{:module6_moreilp.pdf|}}, speculation and loop carried dependency

===== Week 10 Nov. 9, 2009 =====
Quiz 2
Thread level parallelism {{:module7_smt.pdf|}}

===== Week 11 Nov. 16, 2009 =====
cache {{:module8_cache.pdf|}}

===== Week 12 Nov. 23, 2009 =====
Quiz 2 Thursday 26
main memory {{:module9_memory.pdf|}}

===== Week 13 Nov. 30, 2009 =====

===== Week 14 Dec. 7, 2009 =====

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