Preliminary ECS154B Class Outline
Lecture Topic Chapter Date
1 Introduction, History Chapter 1 Mar 28
2 Technology Mar 30
3 Technology Apr 1
Disc Overview of Processor Design/Performance Chapter 1 Apr 1
4 Performance Chapter 1 Apr 4
5 Performance, Digital Logic Review Chapter 1 Apr 6
6 Performance Chapter 1 Apr 8
Disc Performance Chapter 1 Apr 8
7 Test 1 Apr 11
8 Instruction Sets Chapter 2 Apr 13
9 MIPS Overview Chapter 2 Apr 15
Disc Example Machine Design Notes Apr 15
10 Single/Multi Cycle MIPS Notes, Chap 4 Apr 18
11 Multicycle MIPS Notes, Chap 4 Apr 20
12 Multicycle MIPS, Microcode Appendix D Apr 22
Disc Pipelining Chapter 4 Apr 22
13 Pipelining Chapter 4 Apr 25
14 Test 2 Apr 27
15 Pipelining Chapter 4 Apr 29
Disc Pipelining Chapter 4 Apr 29
16 Pipelining Chapter 4 May 2
17 Exceptions Chapter 4 May 4
18 Exceptions Chapter 4 May 6
Disc Advanced pipelining Chapter 4 May 6
19 Advanced pipelining Chapter 4 May 9
20 Test 3 May 11
21 Advanced topics Chapter 4 May 13
Disc Advanced topics Chapter 4 May 13
22 Memory Heirarchy Chapter 5 May 16
23 Memory Heirarchy Chapter 5 May 18
24 Memory Heirarchy Chapter 5 May 20
Disc Memory Heirarchy Chapter 5 May 20
25 Memory Heirarchy Chapter 5 May 23
26 Test 4 May 25
27 Video? May 27
Disc May 27
28 Parallelism Chapter 6 Jun 1
Final: Monday, June 6, 3:30 P.M.