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

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

===== Week 1 =====

Week 1 Sept, 9, 2013 {{:part_1_intro.pdf|}}

===== Week 2 Sept. 16 =====

This is a quick review for pipelines and hazards. I am including slides from a previous year. You have already covered this in 2021. I will go through it very quickly just to remind you with pipeline techniques {{:review_pipeline.pdf|}}

Lassonde Symposium [[http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=31bb3e6e869bcb85031d2506b&id=8277480ac3&e=]]

Check Assignments for HW 1


===== Week 3 Sept. 23 =====

Ch 3 {{:ch_3_ilp.pdf|Part 1 ILP}}


===== Week 4 Sept. 30 =====

ILP cont'd {{:tomasulo.pdf|Tomasulo's Algorithm}}





===== Week 5 Oct. 7 =====

Hardware based speculation {{:reorder_buffer.pdf|}}



**  Quiz 1 **

===== Week 6 Oct. 14  =====

Continue with speculation and reorder buffer




===== Week 7 Oct. 21 =====

Speculation and reorder buffer



===== Week 8 Oct. 28 =====


__**Midterm**__ Oct. 29, 2013



===== Week 9 Nov. 4 =====

**Tuesday Nov. 5, class is canceled**

Thread Level parallelism {{:threads.pdf|TLP}}





===== Week 10 Nov. 11 =====

Chapter 2  {{:cache.pdf|cache}} Quick Review

Main Memory {{:dram.pdf|DRAM}}

===== Week 11 Nov. 18 =====

DRAM Cont.



==== Quiz 2====

===== Week 12 Nov. 25 =====

Vector Architecture {{:vector.pdf|Vector}}




===== Week 13 Dec. 2 =====



==== Quiz 3  ====




===== Final Exam =====

**I have emailed an example on ROB, if you did not receive it, please contact me and I will email it to you**