| Week | Date | Topic | Reading | Discussion | Homework | Lab | Project |
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| 1 | 02-14 | Introduction | P&H: 2.4 | HW 1 Due Wed, March 1st, 23:59:59 | No Lab | ||
| 02-16 | Introduction to C I | K&R Ch. 1-5 | |||||
| 2 | 02-21 | Introduction to C II | K&R Ch. 6-7 | Lab 1 | |||
| 02-23 | Introduction to C III | ||||||
| 3 | 02-28 | Intro to Assembly Language, MIPS Intro | P&H: 2.1 - 2.3 | Discussion 3 | HW 2 Due Wed, March 8th, 23:59:59 | Lab 2 | |
| 03-02 | MIPS, MIPS Functions | P&H: 2.6 - 2.9, 2.10, A.6 | |||||
| 4 | 03-07 | MIPS Instruction Formats | P&H: 2.5, 2.10 | Discussion 4 | Lab 3 | ||
| 03-09 | Compiler, Assembler, Linker, Loader (CALL) | P&H: 2.12, A.1-A.4 | |||||
| 5 | 03-14 | Intro to Synchronous Digital Systems (SDS), Logic | P&H: B.2-B.3 | Discussion 5 | HW 3 Due Fri, March 17th, 23:59:59 | Lab 4 | Project 1.1 Due Friday, March 24, 23:59:59 |
| 03-16 | Functional Units, FSMs | P&H: 4.2, B.3-B.6 | |||||
| 6 | 03-21 | MIPS Datapath, Single-Cycle Control Intro | P&H: 4.1, 4.3, 4.4 | Discussion 6 | HW 4 Due Wed, March 29th, 23:59:59 results |
Lab 5 | |
| 03-23 | MIPS Single-Cycle Control | P&H: 4.5-4.8 | |||||
| 7 | 03-28 | MIPS Pipelining | P&H: 4.10, 4.11 | Discussion 7 | Lab 6 | Project 1.2 Due Friday, April 7, 23:59:59 |
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| 03-30 | Review for Midterm I | ||||||
| 8 | 04-04 | Holiday | no lab | ||||
| 04-06 | Memory Hierarchy, Caches | P&H: 5.1 5.2 5.3 | |||||
| 9 | 04-11 | Mid-Term I | HW 5 Due Wed, April 19th, 23:59:59 solution |
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Mid-Term I solution | ||
| 04-13 | Caches: Direct-mapped, Set-associative | P&H: 5.4 | |||||
| 10 | 04-18 | Multilevel Caches | P&H: 5.8 1.6 | Discussion 10 | Lab 7 | Project 2.1 Due Wedenesday, May 3, 23:59:59 |
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| 04-20 | Performance and Floating Point Operations | P&H: 3.5 3.9 | |||||
| 11 | 04-25 | Flynn Taxonomy, Data-Level Parallelism | P&H: 1.7, 1.8, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.7 | Discussion 11 | HW 6 Due Fri, May 5th, 23:59:59 | Project 1 checkup | |
| 04-27 | Review for Mid-Term II | ||||||
| 12 | 05-02 | Thread-Level Parallelism, OpenMP Intro | P&H: 6.5, 5.10, 2.11 | Discussion 12 | Lab 8 | Project 2.2 Due Saturday, May 13, 23:59:59 |
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| 05-04 | Cache Coherence, OpenMP Sharing Issues, Performance | P&H: 5.10 | |||||
| 13 | 05-09 | Mid-Term II | Discussion 13 | Lab 9 | Mid-term II corrected solution |
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| 05-11 | Warehouse Scale Computing, MapReduce (Spark) | The Datacenter as a Computer: Ch 1, Ch 2.4, Ch 3, 5.1-5.3 | |||||
| 14 | 05-16 | OS Support, Base and Bounds, Interrupts, Virtual Memory Intro | P&H: 5.13, 5.15, 5.16 | Lab 10 | |||
| 05-18 | More Virtual Memory | P&H: 6.9 (only p.4-10), 4.9 | |||||
| 15 | 05-23 | I/O: DMA, Disks, Networking | P&H: 5.2, 5.5, 5.11 | HW 7 Due Sunday, June 21, 23:59:59 | Lab 11 & Project 2 checkup | Project 3 Due Monday, June 21, 23:59:59 |
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| 05-25 | Dependability: Parity, ECC, RAID | P&H: 5.5, B-65 to B-67 | |||||
| 16 | 05-30 | Holiday | No Lab | ||||
| 06-01 | Summary Lecture by TA | ||||||
| 17 | 6-15 | Final: Thursday, June 15, 9-11 Teaching Center 201 & 202 |
Final Final solution |
| Instructor | |
 Sören Schwertfeger 师泽仁 < soerensch> OH: You are always welcome! Wednesday 13:00-15:00; Room: 1D 201A | |
TAs Please check the TA office hours on piazza. | |
 Qingwen Xu 徐晴雯 < xuqw> Head TA |
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 Bin Chen 陈彬 < chenbin> |
 Yonghao Liu 刘永豪 < liuyh1> |
 Xin Qin 覃昕 < qinxin> |
 Feiran Jia 贾斐然 < jiafr> |
 Jianzhong Liu 刘健中 < liujzh> |
 Yunchen Yang 杨贇晨 < yangych> |
Syllabus
Check the syllabus for the CA course 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: 5%
- Exams: 40%
- Participation: 5%