Schedule

Days	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading List
1/27/2015	Syllabus, Introduction	Introduction
1/29/2015	ISA	ISA	H&P Appendix A
2/3/2015	More ISA	More ISA	H&P Appendix A,K
2/5/2015	ISA Tradeoffs	ISA Tradeoff	H&P Appendix A,K
2/10/2015	Performance	Performance	H&P Chapter 1
2/12/2015	Single Cycle Datapath	Single Cycle Datapath	Appendix C
2/17/2015	snow day
2/19/2015	Single Cycle Datapath 2	Single Cycle Datapath 2	Appendix C
2/24/2015	Pipeline	Pipeline Pipeline Data Hazards	Appendix C
3/3/2015	Pipeline Control Hazards	Control Hazards, Exceptions	Appendix C
3/10/2015	Pipeline Long Instructions	Long Instructions
3/12/2015	Midterm exam 1
3/16/2015	Spring Break
3/24/2015	Cache	Memory_Cache_1	Appendix B, Chapter 2
3/26/2015	Cache 2	Memory_Cache_2	Appendix B, Chapter 2
3/31/2015	Virtual Memory	Virtual Memory 1	Appendix B, Chapter 2
4/2/2015	Virtual memory	Virtual Memory 2	Appendix B, Chapter 2
4/7/2015	Virtual memory	No Class. Power Outage
4/9/2015	Instruction Level Parallelism	ILP: Compiler Techniques	Chapter 3
4/14/2015	Instruction Level Parallelism	ILP: Branch Prediction	Chapter 3
4/21/2015	Predication	predication and exceptions	Chapter 3
4/23/2015	Exam 2
4/28/2015	Dynamis Scheduling	dynamic scheduling
4/30/2015	Storage Systems	storage systems
5/5/2015	Multiprocessor	multiprocessor
5/7/2015	Multiprocessor 2: Cache Coherence, Interconnections	cache_coherence interconnects
5/20/2015	Final Exam	Wednesday, May 20, 10:30am-12:30pm

CMSC 411, Spring 2015