| Week | Date | Topic | Reading | Discussion | Homework | Lab | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 02-23 | Introduction ppt pdf | P&H: 2.4 | 1 (pdf) | HW 1 Due Monday, March 7, 23:59:59 |
>No Lab | |
| 02-26 | Introduction to C Part 1 ppt pdf | K&R Ch. 1-5 | |||||
| 2 | 03-01 | Introduction to C Part 2 ppt pdf | K&R Ch. 6-7 | 2 (pdf) | Lab 1 | ||
| 03-04 | Intro to Assembly Language, MIPS Intro ppt pdf | P&H: 2.1 - 2.3 | |||||
| 3 | 03-08 | MIPS, MIPS Functions ppt pdf | P&H: 2.6 - 2.9, 2.10, A.6 | 3 (zip) | HW 2 Due Monday, March 14, 23:59:59 |
Lab 2 | |
| 03-11 | MIPS Instruction Formats ppt pdf | P&H: 2.5, 2.10 | |||||
| 4 | 03-15 | Compiler, Assembler, Linker, Loader (CALL) ppt pdf | P&H: 2.12, A.1-A.4 | 4 (pdf) | HW 3 Due Monday, March 28, 23:59:59 |
Lab 3 | Project 1.1 Due Monday, March 28, 23:59:59 |
| 03-18 | Intro to Synchronous Digital Systems (SDS), Logic ppt pdf | P&H: B.2-B.3 | |||||
| 5 | 03-22 | Functional Units, FSMs ppt pdf | P&H: 4.2, B.3-B.6 | 5 (pdf) | Lab 4 | ||
| 03-25 | MIPS Datapath, Single-Cycle Control Intro ppt pdf | P&H: 4.1, 4.3, 4.4 | |||||
| 6 | 03-29 | MIPS Single-Cycle Control ppt pdf | P&H: 4.5-4.8 | 6 (zip) | HW 4 Due Monday, April 4, 23:59:59 |
Lab 5 | Project 1.2 Due Thursday, April 21, 23:59:59 |
| 04-01 | Review Session ppt pdf | ||||||
| 7 | 04-05 | MIPS Pipelining ppt pdf | P&H: 4.10, 4.11 | Q&A for Midterm I | Lab 6 | Midterm I Solution | |
| 04-08 | Midterm 1 | ||||||
| 8 | 04-12 | Memory Hierarchy, Caches ppt pdf | P&H: 5.1 5.2 5.3 | Midterm I solution discussion | HW 5 Due Monday, April 18, 23:59:59 |
Lab 7 | |
| 04-15 | Caches: Direct-mapped, Set-associative ppt pdf | P&H: 5.4 | |||||
| 9 | 04-19 | Multilevel Caches ppt pdf | P&H: 5.8 1.6 | 7 (pdf) | no Lab | Project 2 (CPU) | |
| 04-22 | Performance and Floating Point Operations ppt pdf | P&H: 3.5 3.9 | |||||
| 10 | 04-26 | Flynn Taxonomy, Data-Level Parallelism ppt pdf | P&H: 1.7, 1.8, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.7 | 8 (pdf) | HW 6 Due Wednesday, May 7, 23:59:59 |
Lab 8 and Project 1 Checkup | Project 2.1 Due Friday, May 13, 23:59:59 |
| 04-29 | Amdahl's Law, Thread-Level Parallelism, OpenMP Intro ppt pdf | P&H: 6.5, 5.10, 2.11 | |||||
| 11 | 05-03 | P&H: 5.10 | 9a 9b (pdf) | Lab 8 checkup | Project 2.2 Due Monday, May 23, 23:59:59 |
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| 05-06 | Guest Lecture Xiaoyao Liang: GPU | ||||||
| 12 | 05-10 | Review Session pdf | Review for Midterm II | Lab 9 | Midterm II Solution | ||
| 05-13 | Midterm 2 | ||||||
| 13 | 05-17 | Cache Coherence, OpenMP Sharing Issues, Performance ppt pdf | P&H: 5.10 | Review after Midterm II | Lab 10 | ||
| 05-20 | Warehouse Scale Computing, MapReduce (Spark) ppt pdf | The Datacenter as a Computer: Ch 1, Ch 2.4, Ch 3, 5.1-5.3 | |||||
| 14 | 05-24 | OS Support, Base and Bounds, Interrupts, Virtual Memory Intro ppt pdf | P&H: 5.13, 5.15, 5.16 | HW 7 Due Thursday, June 9, 23:59:59 |
Lab 10 checkup | ||
| 05-27 | More Virtual Memory ppt pdf | P&H: 6.9 (only p.4-10), 4.9 | |||||
| 15 | 05-31 | I/O: DMA, Disks, Networking ppt pdf | P&H: 5.2, 5.5, 5.11 | 10 (pdf) | Lab 11 and Project 2 checkup | Project 3 Due June 24, no slip days |
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| 06-03 | Dependability: Parity, ECC, RAID ppt pdf | P&H: 5.5, B-65 to B-67 | |||||
| 16 | 06-07 | Summary ppt pdf | Q&A for final | Final (solution) | |||
| Dragon Boat Festival | |||||||
| 17 | 06-21 | Final | 9:00 - 11:00 H2 109 and 110 |
| Instructor | |
 Sören Schwertfeger 师泽仁 < soerensch> OH: Tue 13:00-15:00; Fri 13:00-15:00. Robotics Lab | |
TAs | |
 Zhao Yanpeng 赵彦鹏 < zhaoyp1> OH: Thu 13:00-15:00; H2 302 |
 Dong Yanbing 董艳兵 < dongyb> OH: Tue 10:15-12:00; H2 202 |
 Wu Minye 吴旻烨 < wumy> MIPS OH: Thu 18:00-19:30; 教学楼314 (other discussion time-slot) |
 Jin Shi 金石 < jinshi> OH: Mon 18:00-20:00; 教学楼314 |
 Xu Qingwen 徐晴雯 < xuqw> OH: Wed 18:00-20:00; Robotics Lab |
 Zhu Chen 朱晨 < zhuchen> OH: Fri 13:00-15:00; H2 202 |
Syllabus
Check the syllabus on the SIST website.
Textbook
- P&H
- Patterson, David A. and Hennessy, John L. Computer Organization and Design 5th edition. Morgan Kaufmann.
References
- K&R
- Kernighan, Brian W. and Ritchie, Dennis M. The C Programming Language (2rd ed.). Prentice Hall.
Requirements
- Reading
- Read the chapters before class. I will not read the textbook to you during class. Rather, I will help you better understand certain materials in the textbook.
- Class participation
- Participate actively in the discussions both in class and on the forum.
- Communication
- Read your email and the forum at least once in any 12 hour period (including weekends and holidays), as I may post important announcements.
Grading
- Projects: 33%
- Homework: 17%
- Lab: 10%
- Exams: 35%
- Participation: 5%