Preliminary ECS201A Class Outline
Lecture Topic Chapter Date
1 Introduction, History & Trends Chapter 1 Jan 8
2 Technology Chapter 1 Jan 10
Disc Technology Jan 14
3 Performance Chapter 1 Jan 15
4 Performance Chapter 1 Jan 17
Disc Holiday Jan 21
5 Instruction Sets Appendix A Jan 22
6 Instruction Sets Appendix A Jan 24
Disc Quiz Jan 28
7 Basic/Intermediate Pipelining Appendix C Jan 29
8 Basic/Intermediate Pipelining Appendix C Jan 31
Disc Quiz Feb 4
9 Advanced Pipelining Feb 5
10 Advanced Pipelining Chapter 3 Feb 7
Disc Midterm 1 Feb 11
11 Advanced Pipelining/ILP Chapter 3 Feb 12
12 Advanced Pipelining/ILP Chapter 3 Feb 14
Disc Holiday Feb 18
13 Advanced Pipelining/ILP Chapter 3 Feb 19
14 Advanced Pipelining/ILP Chapter 3 Feb 21
Disc Quiz Feb 25
15 Vector Machines/SIMD Chapter 4 Feb 26
16 Memory System Review Appendix B Feb 28
Disc Quiz Mar 4
17 Memory System Chapter 2 Mar 5
18 Memory System/Parallelism Chapter 2/5 Mar 7
Disc Midterm 2 Mar 11
19 Parallelism Chapter 5 Mar 12
20 Parallelism Chapter 5 Mar 14
Final: Monday, March 18, 1:00 P.M.