There will be one lecture each week on Wednesday between 6pm and 8:45pm; at least one hour reading and network surfing to learn tools and languages; and one term project.
Grading:
Exam 1 (midterm exam): | accounts for 30% of the total grade; |
Project: | accounts for 30% of the total grade; |
Presentation: | accounts for 10% of the total grade. |
Final Exam: | accounts for 30% of the total grade. |
Class Date | Topics Covered | |
Feb. 4: | Overview, introduction, and basic concepts of computer architecture; | |
Feb. 11: | Instruction Level Parallelism I | |
Feb. 18: | Instruction Level Parallelism I | |
Feb 25: | Limits on Instruction Level Parallelism | |
March 4: | Memory Hierarchy Concepts I | |
March 11: | Memory Hierarchy Concepts II | |
March 18: | No class, Spring Break | |
March 25: | Midterm Exam. Multiprocessors | |
April 1: | Project proposal Presentation; Multiprocessor architectures | |
April 8: | Multiprocessor architectures | |
April 15: | Data Storage Architectures I | |
April 22: | Data Storage Architectures II | |
April 29: | Project presentations | |
May 6: | Final Exam | |