Preliminary ECS201A Class Outline
Lecture Topic Chapter Date
1 Introduction, History & Trends Chapter 1 Sep 22
Disc Technology Sep 26
2 Technology Chapter 1 Sep 27
3 Performance Chapter 1 Sep 29
Disc Quiz Oct 3
4 Performance Chapter 1 Oct 4
5 Instruction Sets Appendix A Oct 6
Disc Quiz Oct 10
6 Instruction Sets Appendix A Oct 11
7 Basic/Intermediate Pipelining Appendix C Oct 13
Disc Quiz Oct 17
8 Basic/Intermediate Pipelining Appendix C Oct 18
9 Advanced Pipelining Oct 20
Disc Quiz Oct 24
10 Advanced Pipelining Chapter 3 Oct 25
11 Advanced Pipelining/ILP Chapter 3 Oct 27
Disc Midterm 1 Oct 31
12 Advanced Pipelining/ILP Chapter 3 Nov 1
13 Advanced Pipelining/ILP Chapter 3 Nov 3
Disc Quiz Nov 7
14 Advanced Pipelining/ILP Chapter 3 Nov 8
15 Vector Machines/SIMD Chapter 4 Nov 10
Disc Quiz Nov 14
16 Memory System Review Appendix B Nov 15
17 Memory System Chapter 2 Nov 17
Disc Quiz Nov 21
18 Memory System/Parallelism Chapter 2/5 Nov 22
Holiday Nov 24
Disc MIDTERM 2 Nov 28
19 Parallelism Chapter 5 Nov 30
20 Parallelism Chapter 5 Dec 1
Final: Thursday, December 8, 1:00 P.M.