Preliminary ECS201A Class Outline
Lecture Topic Chapter Date
1 Introduction, History & Trends Chapter 1 Sep 26
Disc No meeting Sep 30
2 Technology Chapter 1 Oct 1
3 Performance Chapter 1 Oct 3
Disc Quiz Oct 7
4 Performance Chapter 1 Oct 8
5 Instruction Sets Appendix A Oct 10
Disc Quiz Oct 14
6 Instruction Sets Appendix A Oct 15
7 Basic/Intermediate Pipelining Appendix C Oct 17
Disc Quiz Oct 21
8 Basic/Intermediate Pipelining Appendix C Oct 22
9 Advanced Pipelining Oct 24
Disc Midterm 1 Oct 28
10 Advanced Pipelining Chapter 3 Oct 29
11 Advanced Pipelining/ILP Chapter 3 Oct 31
Disc Quiz Nov 4
12 Advanced Pipelining/ILP Chapter 3 Nov 5
13 Advanced Pipelining/ILP Chapter 3 Nov 7
Disc HOLIDAY Nov 11
14 Vector Machines/SIMD Chapter 4 Nov 12
15 Vector Machines/SIMD Chapter 4 Nov 14
Disc Midterm 2 Nov 18
16 Memory System Appendix B Nov 19
17 Memory System Chapter 2 Nov 20
Disc Quiz Nov 25
18 Parallelism Chapter 5 Nov 26
Holiday Nov 28
Disc Quiz/Lecture Dec 2
19 Parallelism Chapter 5 Dec 3
20 Storage? Dec 5
Final: Thursday, December 12, 10:30 A.M.