UW-Madison
Computer Sciences Dept.

CS/ECE 752 Advanced Computer Architecture I Fall 2006 Section 1
Instructor David A. Wood and T. A. Arini Balakrishnan
URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~david/courses/cs752/Fall2006/

Approximate Lecture Schedule

Week Tuesday Thursday
Sept 4 Introduction
Read: H&P Chpt 1
Technology, etc.
HW 0 due
Review: Moore
Skim: ITRS Roadmap
Sept 11 Technology, etc.
Review: Patterson
Instruction Sets
Review: Wulf
Read: H&P Chpt 2
Sept 18 Instruction Sets
Review: Emer & Clark
Skim: IA-32 manual
Pipelining
HW 1 due
Review: Yeh & Patt
Read: H&P Appdx A
Sept 25 Pipelining
Review: Ernst
Static ILP
Review: Mcnair/Soltis
Read: H&P Chpt 4.1-4.3
Oct 2 Static ILP
Review: Smith and Pleszkun
Read: H&P Chpt 4.5 and 4.7
No Class
Oct 9 Dynamic ILP
Read: H&P Chpt 3 (long)
Dynamic ILP
Review: Yeager
Review: Mutlu
Oct 16 Dynamic ILP
Review: Srinivasan
Review: Gochman
Midterm Review (Wednesday Night)
HW 2 due (in TA's box)
Oct 23 Midterm Exam Dynamic ILP
Project Proposal Due
Oct 30 Dynamic ILP Vectors
Nov 6 Cache
Review: Jouppi
Cache
Review: Albonesi
Nov 13 Cache
Review: Kim
Memory
Review: Vogt
Progress Report Due
Nov 20 Memory
Review: Jacob
Thanksgiving
Nov 27 Storage Systems
Review: Patterson
HW 3 due
Multithreading
Review: Tullsen
Dec 4 Multiprocessors
Review: Kongetira
Virtual Machines
Review: Adams
Dec 11 No Class
HW 4 due
Final Review
Project Presentations and
Report Due Friday
Dec 18 Final Exam: Monday December 18th, 12:25 pm

 
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