====== 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. 4====

{{:week_1.pdf|Introduction and technology Trends}}
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==== Week 2 Sept. 11====

{{:week_2.pdf|Power, Dependability, and Performance}}

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==== Week 3 Sept. 18====

**No Tuesday Lecture**

{{:ch2_cache_part_1.pdf|cache: part 1}} 2.1-2.3 in PH6E + class notes fo rthe introduction part

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===== Week 4 Sept. 25=====

Cache {{:ch2_cache_part_2_performance.pdf|Optimization and performance}} Appendix B.2 and B.3

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===== Week 5 Oct. 2=====

**Quiz 1 (Thursday)** Covers Chapter 1

Slides for {{:ch2_vm.pdf|Virtual memory}}

Introduction to {{:ch2_dram.pdf|DRAM}}

===== Reading Week=====


===== Week 6 Oct. 16=====

**Midterm (Thursday)**

midterm sections to cover (in addition to the above sections) B.2, B.4 and the slides


===== Week 7 Oct. 23=====

Continue wirg DRAM

Start in Instruction level parallelism Introduction and branch prediction {{:caqa6e_ch3_prediction.pdf|here}}

Correlating predictors {{:correlating_predictors.pdf|here}}


===== Week 8 Oct. 30=====

hardware based ILP {{:caqa6e_ch3_dynamicscheduling.pdf|Dynamic Scheduling}}


Example on {{:tomasulu_example.pptx|Tomasulu's Algorithm}}

===== Week 9 Nov. 6 =====

**Quiz 2** (Thursday


===== Week 9 Nov. 13 =====

Introduction to {{:simd_1.pdf|SIMD}}


===== Week 10 Nov. 20=====

{{:simd_v.pdf|more SIMD}}

{{:gpu.pdf|GPU}}

===== Week 11 Nov. 27 =====

**Quiz 3**

{{:cache_coherence.pdf|cachr Coherence}}

===== Week 12 Dec. 4 =====





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