====== 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. 10=====

Chapter 1 {{:ch-1-intro.pdf|Introduction}}

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===== Week 2 Week of Sept. 14=====
Continue with introduction

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===== Week 3 Week of Sept. 21=====

Instruction level parallelism {{:ch_3_part_1.pdf|Part 1}} and here {{:ch_3_part_1_2slides.pdf|2 slides per page}}

**Assigned reading**

//Tuesday//
3.1  Review of hazards (already covered in 2021) will not be covered in the class
3.2 Basic compiler techniques


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===== Week 4 Week of Sept. 28=====

<fc red> ** Quiz 1 (Thursday)** </fc> moved to next week

Reducing branch cost {{:caqa5e_ch3_part3_prediction.pdf|Prediction}} and here {{:caqa5e_ch3_part3_prediction2slides.pdf|2 slides per page}}

Section 3.3 in the text. A more detailed explanation of predictors is given in C.2 pp C_21 to C-30.
The third and second edition of the text have a more detailed coverage of branch predictors.

**Assigned reading**

//Tuesday// 3.4  Dynamic scheduling   

//Thursday// 3.5 Example

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===== Week 5 Week of Oct. 5=====

Dynamic scheduling {{:caqa5e_ch3_rob.pdf|Tomasulo and ROB}} and here {{:caqa5e_ch3_rob_2slides.pdf|2 slides per page}} section 3.6

<fc red> ** Quiz 1 (Thursday)** </fc> 

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===== Week 6 Week of Oct. 12=====

Superscalar and VLIW  section 3.7 and 3.8: {{:caqa5e_ch3_part_c_smt.pdf|here}}

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===== Week 7 Week of Oct. 19=====

Cache {{:cache_part_1.pdf|Part 1}}

Section: 2.1 and 2.2

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===== Week 8 Week of Oct. 26=====
<fc red> ** Midterm (Tuesday) ** </fc>

The makeup midterm is Friday 3:30 (my office)


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===== Week 9 Week of Nov. 2=====

cache {{:cache_part_2.pdf|Part 2}}

<del><fc red> ** Quiz 2  Thursday** </fc></del>  moved to Tuesday Nov. 10

Here is a {{:paper_survey.pdf|list}} of papers for the paper review project. If you have another idea, please discuss it with me.

====== Midterm marks are posted on ePost ======


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===== Week 10 Week of Nov. 9=====

Virtual memory  {{:vm.pdf|here}}

Assignment 2 has been posted

Some practice questions for the quiz
  - Examples in the slides
  - 2.1, 2.2, 2.3  Exact solution for these problems might take more than the 20 minutes allocated to the quiz, but you have to be familiar with the idea.


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===== Week 11 Week of Nov. 16=====

Thread level parallelism and cache coherence (Chapter 5)

here is an example trace file. the format is **instruction: R/W memory_address**

{{:test2.txt|Trace}}

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===== Week 12 Week of Nov. 23=====
<fc red> ** Quiz 3 (Thursday) ** </fc> The quiz will cover virtual memory and DRAM. Virtual memory is section 2.4 + class notes. For DRAM, class notes

Cache coherence {{:cache_coherence_1.pdf|Part 1}}

Examples on  {{:cache_coherence_protocols.pdf|snoopy and directory based protocols}}


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===== Week 13 Week of Nov.30=====

NoC Network on Chip, or how to connect the cores

The final exam will cover these topics

  * Chapter 1
  * Cahpter 2  2.1-2.3 and Virtual memory slides
  * Chapter 3   3.1-3.9, 3.12 and DRAM notes
  * Chapter 5  5.1-5.6



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