UW-Madison
Computer Sciences Dept.

CS/ECE 752 Advanced Computer Architecture I Fall 2008 Section 1
Instructor David A. Wood and T. A. Khai Tran
URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~david/courses/cs752/Fall2008/

Approximate Lecture Schedule

Week Monday Wednesday Friday
Sept 1 LABOR DAY Introduction
Read: H&P Chpt 1
Technology, etc.
Review: Moore
Skim: ITRS Roadmap
Sept 8 Technology, etc.
HW 0 due
Review: Patterson
Instruction Sets
Review: Colwell, et al.
Read: H&P Appendix B
Instruction Sets
Review: Burger, et al.
Review: Emer & Clark
Skim: IA-32 manual
Sept 15 Pipelining
Review: Hartstein and Puzak
Read: H&P Appdx A
Catchup Pipelining
Review: Ernst
Read: H&P Chpt 2.1-2.2
Sept 22 Branch Prediction
HW 1 due
Review: Yeh & Patt
Read: H&P Chpt 2.3
Dynamic Scheduling
Review: Seznec
Read: H&P Chpt 2.4-2.5
No Class
Sept 29 Dynamic ILP
Review: Yeager
Read: H&P Chpt. 2.6
Dynamic ILP
Project email due
Review: Sohi and Vajapeyam
Read: H&P Chpt. 2.8,2.9-2.11
Limits of ILP
Review: Smith and Pleszkun
Read: H&P Chpt 3
Oct 6 more Dynamic ILP
HW 2 due
Read: H&P Chpt 2.7,2.9
Load/Store Buffers
Review: Moshovos, et al.
No Class
Oct 13 Static ILP
Review: Mcnair/Soltis
Static ILP
Vectors
Review: Russell
Oct 20 Caches
Project Proposal Due
Review: Jouppi
Midterm Review
HW 3 due
No Class
Midterm Thursday Night 7:15-9:15pm
1325 CS
Oct 27 Caches
Review: Albonesi
Caches
Review: Kim
Memory
Review: Ganesh et al.
Nov 3 Memory
Memory
Review: Jacob and Mudge
No Class
Nov 10 Memory Storage
Review: Patterson
Progress Report Due
No Class
Nov 17 Multithreading and Multiprocessors
Review: Tullsen
Multithreading and Multiprocessors
Review: Kongetira
HW 4 due
No Class
Nov 24 No Class No Class Thanksgiving Break
Dec 1 No Class
Finish Multiprocessors, discuss Rock
Virtual Machines
Review: Adams
Dec 8 No Class Project Presentations Project Presentations and
Report Due
Dec 15 Final Review -- Time TBA
HW 5 due at review
Final Exam: Thursday December 18th, 7:45 am

 
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