Preliminary ECS201A Class Outline
Lecture Topic Chapter Date
1 Introduction, History & Trends Chapter 1 Sep 24
Disc Technology Sep 28
2 Technology Chapter 1 Sep 29
3 Performance Chapter 1 Oct 1
Disc Quiz Oct 5
4 Performance Chapter 1 Oct 6
5 Instruction Sets Appendix A Oct 8
Disc Quiz Oct 12
6 Instruction Sets Appendix A Oct 13
7 Basic/Intermediate Pipelining Appendix C Oct 15
Disc Quiz Oct 19
8 Basic/Intermediate Pipelining Appendix C Oct 20
9 Advanced Pipelining Oct 22
Disc Midterm 1 Oct 26
10 Advanced Pipelining Chapter 3 Oct 27
11 Advanced Pipelining/ILP Chapter 3 Oct 29
Disc Quiz Nov 2
12 Advanced Pipelining/ILP Chapter 3 Nov 3
13 Advanced Pipelining/ILP Chapter 3 Nov 5
Disc Quiz Nov 9
14 Advanced Pipelining/ILP Chapter 3 Nov 10
15 Vector Machines/SIMD Chapter 4 Nov 12
Disc Quiz Nov 16
16 Memory System Review Appendix B Nov 17
17 Memory System Chapter 2 Nov 19
Disc Memory System Chapter 2 Nov 23
18 MIDTERM 2 Nov 24
Holiday Nov 26
Disc Quiz/Lecture Nov 30
19 Parallelism Chapter 5 Dec 1
20 Parallelism Chapter 5 Dec 3
Final: Friday, December 11, 6:00 P.M.