Preliminary ECS154B Class Outline
Lecture Topic Chapter Date
1 Introduction, History & Technology Chapter 1 Apr 2
Disc Technology Apr 3
2 Overview of Processor Design/Performance Chapter 1 Apr 4
3 Performance Chapter 1 Apr 9
Disc Quiz Apr 10
4 Digital Logic Review, Instruction Sets Notes Apr 11
5 Instruction Sets, MIPS Overview Chapter 2 Apr 16
Disc Quiz Apr 17
6 Example Machine Design Notes Apr 18
7 Single/Multi Cycle MIPS Notes, Chap 4 Apr 23
Disc Quiz Apr 24
8 Multicycle MIPS, Microcode Appendix D Apr 25
9 Pipelining Chapter 4 Apr 30
Disc Quiz May 1
10 Pipelining Chapter 4 May 2
11 Exceptions Chapter 4 May 7
Disc Return Quiz, Review May 8
12 MIDTERM May 9
13 Advanced pipelining Chapter 4 May 14
Disc Quiz May 17
14 Advanced topics Chapter 4 May 16
15 Memory Heirarchy Chapter 5 May 21
Disc Quiz May 22
16 Memory Heirarchy Chapter 5 May 23
17 Memory Heirarchy Chapter 5 May 28
Disc Quiz May 29
18 Multiprocessors Chapter 7 May 30
19 Multiprocessors Chapter 7 Jun 4
Disc Quiz/Review Jun 5
20 Floating Point Chapter 3 Jun 6
Final: Thursday, June 13, 8:00 A.M.