Preliminary ECS201A Class Outline
Lecture Topic Chapter Date
1 Introduction, History & Trends Chapter 1 Oct 2
Disc Technology Oct 6
2 Technology Chapter 1 Oct 7
3 Performance Chapter 1 Oct 9
Disc Quiz Oct 13
4 Performance Chapter 1 Oct 14
5 Instruction Sets Appendix A Oct 16
Disc Quiz Oct 20
6 Instruction Sets Appendix A Oct 21
7 Basic/Intermediate Pipelining Appendix C Oct 22
Disc Quiz Oct 27
8 Basic/Intermediate Pipelining Appendix C Oct 28
9 Advanced Pipelining Oct 30
Disc Midterm 1 Nov 3
10 Advanced Pipelining Chapter 3 Nov 4
11 Advanced Pipelining/ILP Chapter 3 Nov 6
Disc Quiz Nov 10
HOLIDAY Nov 11
12 Advanced Pipelining/ILP Chapter 3 Nov 13
Disc Advanced Pipelining/ILP Chapter 3 Nov 17
13 Advanced Pipelining/ILP Chapter 3 Nov 18
14 Vector Machines/SIMD Chapter 4 Nov 20
Disc Vector Machines/SIMD Appendix B Nov 24
16 Midterm 2 Appendix B Nov 25
Holiday Nov 27
Disc Memory System Chapter 2 Dec 1
17 Memory System Chapter 2 Dec 2
18 Memory System Chapter 2 Dec 4
Disc Quiz/Lecture Dec 8
19 Parallelism Chapter 5 Dec 9
20 Parallelism Chapter 5 Dec 11
Final: Tuesday, December 16, 10:30 A.M.