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TOPIC |
DATE |
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NOTES |
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Course overview |
Aug 26 |
Chapter 1 |
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Overview (continued) |
Aug 31 |
Chapter 1 |
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Performance measures |
Sept 2 |
Chapter 1 |
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Amdahl’s law, MIPS introduction |
Sept 9 |
Chapters 1 and 2 |
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MIPS assembly language |
Sept 14 |
Chapter 2 |
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MIPS assembly language (continued) |
Sept 16 |
Chapter 2 |
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Translating recursive functions, SPIM and MARS simulator |
Sept 21 |
Chapter 2 |
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More examples of MIPS assembly programs |
Sept 26 |
Chapter 2 |
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Completion of Chapter 2, begin Chapter 3 |
Sept 28 |
Chapter 2 |
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Circuits for adder and multiplier |
Sept 30 |
Chapter 3 |
lec9-sept28-09.ppt |
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MID-SEMSTER TEST # 1 |
Oct 5 |
Chapters 1, 2 and parts
of 3 |
All the lectures
covered until Sept 30 |
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Discussion of mid-term,
optimized multiplier, |
Oct 7 |
Chapter 3 |
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Tree-based
multiplier, carry-save based multiplier, division circuit |
Oct 12 |
Chapter 3 |
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Floating-point
numbers |
Oct 14 |
Chapter 3 |
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Furlough
day, no class |
Oct 19 |
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floating-point
circuits |
Oct 21 |
Chapter 3 |
lec13-oct13-09.ppt |
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FP for
addition and multiplication, FP in
MIPS |
Oct
26, Oct 28 |
Chapter 3 |
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Processor
design – simple design for a subset of MIPS instructions |
Nov 2 |
Chapter 4 |
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Processor
design (continued) |
Nov 4 |
Chapter 4 |
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Control
logic for m–MIPS, performance of single cycle CPU |
Nov 9 |
Chapter 4 |
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VETERAN’S DAY, NO CLASS |
Nov 11 |
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MID-SEMESTER
# 2 |
Nov 16 |
Chapters 3 and 4 |
Topics covered from Oct 7 to Nov
11 |
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Pipelining - 1 |
Nov 18 |
Chapter 5 |
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No class, furlough day |
Nov 23 |
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No class, Thanksgiving |
Nov 25 |
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Pipelining – 2: forwarding, load-use hazard detection |
Nov 30 |
Chapter 5 |
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hazard detection, control hazard |
Dec 2 |
Chapter 6 |
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branch prediction, cache - 1 |
Dec 7 |
Chapter 6 |
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cache - 2 |
Dec 9 |
Chapter 6 |