====== 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 (Sept. 11, 2017) =====

week 1 {{:week_1.pdf|Slides}}   Read up to 1.4 in the textbook 

===== Week 2 =====

{{:week_2.pdf|Week 2 Perofrmance}}

===== Week 3 Sept. 18, 2017=====

Chapter 2 memory Hierarchy {{:week_3_cache.pdf|Cache memory part 1}}

===== Week 4 Sept. 25, 2017 =====

cache {{:week_4_cache.pdf|Advanced Techniques}}

{{:vm.pdf|Vitual memory}}



===== Week 5 Oct. 2, 2017 =====

{{:dram.pdf|DRAM}}

{{:ilp_part_1.pdf|ILP}} Part 1: loop  unrolling and software pipelining



===== Week 6 Oct. 9, 2017 =====

Continue with  Instruction level parallelism

 {{:branch_prediction.pdf|Branch Prediction}}


===== Week 7 Oct. 16, 2017 =====

**Quiz 1 on Oct 19**

{{:caqa5e_ch3_dynamic_scheduling.pdf|Dynamic Scheduling}} here is one slide per page {{:caqa5e_ch3_dynamic_scheduling_1_slide.pdf| for lecture use}}

here is last year {{:midterm_4201_2016.pdf|Midterm}}   and last year {{:quiz_1_4201_2016.pdf|Quiz 1}}


===== Week 8 Oct. 23, 2017 =====

**No Classes on Thursday (Fall  Reading Week)
**

===== Week 9 Oct. 30, 2017 =====

**Midterm**  Tuesday  here is {{:midterm_4201_2015.pdf|Last year midterm}}

{{:smt.pdf|SMT}}


===== Week 10 Nov. 6, 2017 =====

**Quiz 2 Nov 9**

{{:simd.pdf|SIMD and Vector Processors}}

===== Week 11 Nov. 13, 2017 =====

Parallel processing and cache coherence slides {{:caqa5e_ch5_cache_coherence.pdf|here}}

===== Week 12 Nov. 20, 2017 =====


===== Week 13 Nov. 27, 2017 =====

Quiz 2  Nov 30












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

Here is a sample [[https://wiki.eecs.yorku.ca/course_archive/2016-17/F/4201/_media/final_4201_15.pdf]]