Preliminary ECS201A Class Outline
Lecture Topic Chapter Date
1 Introduction, History & Trends Chapter 1 Jan 9
2 Technology Chapter 1 Jan 11
3 Technology Chapter 1 Jan 13
Holiday Jan 16
4 Performance Chapter 1 Jan 18
5 Performance Chapter 1 Jan 20
6 Instruction Sets Appendix A Jan 23
7 Instruction Sets Appendix A Jan 25
8 Pipelining Basics/Quiz Appendix C Jan 27
9 Basic/Intermediate Pipelining Appendix C Jan 30
10 Basic/Intermediate Pipelining Appendix C Feb 1
11 Basic/Intermediate Pipelining Appendix C Feb 3
12 Pipelining Basics/Review Appendix C Feb 6
13 Midterm 1 Feb 8
14 Advanced Pipelining Chapter 3 Feb 10
15 Advanced Pipelining/ILP Chapter 3 Feb 13
16 Advanced Pipelining/ILP Chapter 3 Feb 15
17 Advanced Pipelining/Quiz Chapter 3 Feb 17
Holiday Feb 20
18 Advanced Pipelining/ILP Chapter 3 Feb 22
19 Advanced Pipelining/ILP Chapter 3 Feb 24
20 Vector Machines/SIMD Chapter 4 Feb 27
21 Vector Machines/SIMD Chapter 4 Feb 29
22 Midterm 2 Mar 2
23 Memory System Appendix B Mar 5
24 Memory System Chapter 2 Mar 7
25 Memory System/Quiz Chapter 2 Mar 9
26 Parallelism Chapter 5 Mar 12
27 Parallelism Chapter 5 Mar 14
28 Parallelism/Quiz Chapter 5 Mar 16
29 Storage System/Review Mar 19
Final: Thursday, March 22, 1:00 P.M.