Preliminary ECS201A Class Outline
Lecture Topic Chapter Date
1 Introduction, History & Trends Chapter 1 Jan 6
2 Technology Chapter 1 Jan 8
Disc Technology Jan 10
3 Technology Chapter 1 Jan 10
4 Performance Chapter 1 Jan 13
5 Performance Chapter 1 Jan 15
Disc Quiz Jan 17
6 Performance Chapter 1 Jan 17
7 Holiday Jan 20
8 Instruction Sets Appendix A Jan 22
Disc Quiz Jan 24
9 Instruction Sets Appendix A Jan 24
10 Basic/Intermediate Pipelining Appendix C Jan 27
11 Basic/Intermediate Pipelining Appendix C Jan 29
Disc Exam 1 Jan 31
12 Basic/Intermediate Pipelining Appendix C Jan 31
13 Advanced Pipelining Feb 3
14 Advanced Pipelining Chapter 3 Feb 5
Disc Quiz Feb 7
15 Advanced Pipelining Chapter 3 Feb 7
16 Advanced Pipelining/ILP Chapter 3 Feb 10
17 Advanced Pipelining/ILP Chapter 3 Feb 12
Disc Quiz Feb 14
18 Advanced Pipelining/ILP Chapter 3 Feb 14
19 Holiday
20 Advanced Pipelining/ILP Chapter 3 Feb 19
Disc Quiz Feb 21
21 Advanced Pipelining/ILP Chapter 3 Feb 21
22 Vector Machines/SIMD Chapter 4 Feb 24
23 Memory System Review Appendix B Feb 26
Disc Exam 2 Feb 28
24 Memory System Review Appendix B Feb 28
25 Memory System Chapter 2 Mar 2
26 Memory System/Parallelism Chapter 2/5 Mar 4
Disc Quiz Mar 6
27 Memory System/Parallelism Chapter 2/5 Mar 6
28 Parallelism Chapter 5 Mar 9
29 Parallelism Chapter 5 Mar 11
Disc Exam 3 Mar 13
30 Parallelism Chapter 5 Mar 13
Final: Tuesday, March 17, 10:30 A.M.