Computer Architecture Lectures for Spring 2012
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01 |
Jan 10 |
Review High-level and Assembly-language programmer's view |
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02 |
Jan 12 |
Instruction-Set Design Issues |
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03 |
Jan 17 |
Instruction Pipelining and CISC vs. RISC |
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04 |
Jan 19 |
Instruction Pipelining: Control/Branch Penalties |
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05 |
Jan 24 |
Finish control hazards: branch-prediction buffer and BubbleSort example |
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06 |
Jan 26 |
Memory Hierarchy |
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07 |
Jan 31 |
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08 |
Feb 02 |
Review of 1-bit memory and register files |
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09 |
Feb 07 |
RAM implementation |
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10 |
Feb 09 |
Virtual Memory |
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11 |
Feb 14 |
Review for Test 1 |
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12 |
Feb 16 |
Test 1: Chapters |
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13 |
Feb 21 |
Page replacement Algorithms and frame allocation algorithms. |
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14 |
Feb 23 |
OS Introduction and hardware support for OS |
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15 |
Feb 28 |
I/O modules, I/O instructions, and Types of I/O |
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16 |
Mar 01 |
Out-of -town at conference |
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17 |
Mar 06 |
Bus: Section 7.5 |
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18 |
Mar 08 |
Bus arbitration, serial vs. parallel, |
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Spring Break: March 10 – March 18 |
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19 |
Mar 20 |
RAID |
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20 |
Mar 22 |
Superpipelining and Superscalar processors |
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21 |
Mar 27 |
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22 |
Mar 29 |
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23 |
Apr 03 |
Review for Test 2 |
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24 |
Apr 05 |
Test 2: Chapters: |
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25 |
Apr 10 |
Intro to Mulitprocessors |
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26 |
Apr 12 |
Network Connected Multiprocessors |
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27 |
Apr 17 |
SMT and Multicore |
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28 |
Apr 19 |
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29 |
Apr 24 |
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30 |
Apr 26 |
Review for Final Exam |
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Final Exam, Wednesday (May 2) 1-2:50 PM in ITT 322 |
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