Preliminary ECS201A Class Outline

Lecture   Topic                            Chapter          Date

1         Introduction, History & Trends    Chapter 1        Sep 27

2         Technology                        Chapter 1        Oct 2
3         Performance                       Chapter 1        Oct 4

4         Performance                       Chapter 1        Oct 9
5         Instruction Sets/Quiz             Appendix A       Oct 11

6         Instruction Sets                  Appendix A       Oct 16
7         Basic/Intermediate Pipelining     Appendix C       Oct 18

8         Basic/Intermediate Pipelining     Appendix C       Oct 23
9         Midterm 1                                          Oct 25

10        Advanced Pipelining               Chapter 3        Oct 30
11        Advanced Pipelining/ILP           Chapter 3        Nov 1

12        Advanced Pipelining/ILP           Chapter 3        Nov 6
13        Advanced Pipelining/ILP           Chapter 3        Nov 8

14        Vector Machines/SIMD              Chapter 4        Nov 13
15        Vector Machines/SIMD              Chapter 4        Nov 15

16        Midterm 2                                          Nov 20
          Holiday                                            Nov 22

17        Memory System                     Appendix B       Nov 27
18        Memory System                     Chapter 2        Nov 29

19        Parallelism                       Chapter 5        Dec 4
20        Parallelism                       Chapter 5        Dec 6

Final:  Wednesday, December 12, 3:30 P.M.