UW-Madison
Computer Sciences Dept.

CS/ECE 552 Introduction to Computer Architecture


Spring 2012 Section 1
Instructor David A. Wood and T. A. Ramkumar Ravikumar
URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~david/courses/cs552/S12/

TENTATIVE Lecture Schedule

Week Monday Wednesday Friday
Jan 23 Introduction I
Read: COD4e Chpt 1.1-1.4
HW0 out; HW1 out
Introduction II
Read: COD4e Chpt 1.5-1.8
Skim: Henning paper
No Class
Jan 30 Instructions I
Read: COD4e Chpt 2.1-2.3,2.5-2.9
Instructions II
Read: COD4e Chpt 2.10-2.14,2.16-2.18
HW0 due
Catchup
Feb 6 Arithmetic I
Read: COD4e Chpt 2.4,3.1-3.4
Arithmetic II
Read: COD4e Appdx C.5-C.6
HW2 out
Verilog Tutorial
Feb 13 Datapath
Read: COD4e 4.1-4.3
HW1 due
Control
Read: COD4e 4.4
Catchup (if necessary)
Feb 20 Pipelinining I
Read: COD4e 4.5
Pipelinining II
Read: COD4e 4.6
HW2 due; HW3 out
No Class (Birkie)
Feb 27 Pipelinining III
Read: COD4e 4.7
Pipelinining IV
Read: COD4e 4.8-4.9
Project Plan Due
No class
Mar 5 Midterm Review
Midterm on Tuesday 3/6
Advanced Pipelining
Read: COD4e 4.10-4.11
HW3 due; HW4 out
Verilog II
Mar 12 Memory I
Read: COD4e 5.1-5.2
Memory II
Read: COD4e 5.3
Design Overview due
No Class (SGB Meeting)
Mar 19 Memory III
Read: COD4e 5.7, 5.10 and ECC Handout
HW4 due; HW5 out
Memory IV
Read: COD4e 5.4-5.6
Project Demo I
(Drop deadline)
Mar 26 RAS TBD No Class
April 2 Spring Break
April 9 Multiprocessors I
Read: COD4e 7.1-7.3,5.8-5.9
Multiprocessors II
Read: COD4e 7.5-7.7
HW5 due; HW6 out
GPUs
April 16 No Class No Class No Class
April 23 Project Demo II Arithmetic III
Read: COD4e 3.2-3.4
Arithmetic IV
Read: COD4e 3.5-3.9
April 30 I/O I
Read: COD4e 6.1-6.4
I/O II
Read: COD4e 6.5-6.10
HW6 due
No Class
May 7 Blue Sky Final Exam Review Project Demo III
Final Exam: Sunday May 13th 2:45pm-4:45pm

 
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