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