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 Slides Read up to 1.4 in the textbook

Week 2 Perofrmance

Chapter 2 memory Hierarchy Cache memory part 1

cache Advanced Techniques

Vitual memory

DRAM

ILP Part 1: loop unrolling and software pipelining

Continue with Instruction level parallelism

Branch Prediction

Quiz 1 on Oct 19

Dynamic Scheduling here is one slide per page for lecture use

here is last year Midterm and last year Quiz 1

No Classes on Thursday (Fall Reading Week)

Midterm Tuesday here is Last year midterm

SMT

Quiz 2 Nov 9

SIMD and Vector Processors

Parallel processing and cache coherence slides here

Quiz 2 Nov 30

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