Table of Contents

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 of Sept. 8)

Introduction trends and performance




Week 2 (Week of Sept. 15)

cach Organization text Chapter 2.1




Week 3 (Week of Sept. 22)

Cache Performance Cache_2 Chapter 2.2




Week 4 (Week of Sept. 29)

Main memoery




Week 5 (Week of Oct. 6)

Virtual memory

Quiz 1 Thursday class




Week 6 (Week of Oct. 13)




Week 7 (Week of Oct. 20)

Pipeline Review from EECS2021




Week 8 (Week of Oct. 27)

No Class on Thursday (Co-Curricula days)

Midterm the midterm Oct. 28 in SC221




Week 9 (Week of Nov. 3)

Instruction level parallelism Part 1

Nov. 7 is the last day to drop a course without receiving a grade




Week 10 (Week of Nov. 10)

Quiz 2




caqa5e_ch3_part_b.pdf

Week 11 (Week of Nov. 17)

Dynamic Scheduling Tomasulo's Algorithm




Week 12 (Week of Nov. 24)

super scalar super scalar




Week 13 (Week of Dec. 1)

Quiz 3, solution here




Final Exam