| Week | Date | Topic | Video | Reading | Discussion | Homework | Lab | Project |
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| 1 | 03-03 | Introduction (PDF) | P&H: 2.4 | Discussion 1 | HW 1 on Autolab! Due: Fri., Mar. 6 |
No Lab | ||
| 03-05 | Intro to C I (PDF) | K&R: 1-6 | ||||||
| 2 | 03-10 | Intro to C II (PDF) | K&R: 7-8, App. A & B | Discussion 2 | HW 2 Due Thur., Mar. 12 |
Lab 1 | ||
| 03-12 | RISC-V Intro (PDF) | P&H: 2.1 - 2.3 | Discussion 3 | |||||
| 3 | 03-17 | RISC-V Decisions (PDF) | P&H: 2.6, 2.7, 2.9, 2.10 | HW 3 Due Fri., Mar. 27 |
Lab 2 | Project 1.1 Due Fri., April 3 |
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| 03-19 | RISC-V Instruction Formats (PDF) | P&H: 2.5, 2.10 | Discussion 4 | |||||
| 4 | 03-24 | Compiler, Assembler, Linker, Loader (CALL) (PDF) | P&H: 2.12 | Discussion 5 | HW 4 Due Fri., Apr. 10 Solution |
Lab 3 | ||
| 03-26 | Intro to Synchronous Digital Systems (SDS), Logic (PDF) | P&H: A.2, A.3 | Discussion 6 | |||||
| 5 | 03-31 | Functional Units, FSM (PDF) | P&H: A.3 - A.6 | Lab 4 | Project 1.2 Due Tue., April 14 |
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| 04-02 | RISC-V Datapath (PDF) | P&H: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 | Discussion 8 | |||||
| 6 | 04-07 | RISC-V Single-Cycle Control (PDF) | P&H: 4.4 | HW 5 Due Tue., Apr. 21 |
Lab 5 | |||
| 04-09 | RISCV 5-Stage Pipeline/Hazards (PDF) | P&H: 4.5 - 4.9 | ||||||
| 7 | 04-14 | Superscalar (PDF) | P&H: 4.10, 4.11 | Discussion 10 | Lab 6 | Project 2.1 Due Thu., April 30 |
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| 04-16 | Memory Hierarchy, Fully Associative Caches (PDF) | P&H: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 | ||||||
| 8 | 04-21 | Caches: Direct-mapped, Set-associative, Program Performance with Caches (PDF) | P&H: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.8, 1.6 | Discussion 12 | HW 6 Due Wed., May. 6 Solution |
Lab 7 | ||
| 04-23 | Multilevel Caches, Cache Questions (PDF) | P&H: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.8, 1.6 | ||||||
| 9 | 04-28 | Performance, Floating Point (PDF) | P&H: 3.5, 3.9 | Discussion 13 | Lab 8 | Project 2.2 Due Tue., May 12 |
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| 04-30 | Flynn Taxonomy, Data-Level Parallelism (PDF) | P&H: 1.7, 1.8, 4.10, 4.11, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.7 | ||||||
| 10 | 05-07 | Thread-Level Parallelism, OpenMP Intro (PDF) | P&H: 2.11, 5.10, 6.4, 6.5 | No Lab | ||||
| 05-09 | Cache Coherence, OpenMP Sharing Issues (PDF) | P&H: 2.11, 4.10, 5.10, 6.4, 6.5 | ||||||
| 11 | 05-12 | OS Support, Base and Bounds, Interrupts, Virtual Memory Intro (PDF) (Online Lecture: More VM) |
P&H: 5.13, 5.15, 5.16 | Discussion 17 | HW 7 Due Fri., Jun. 5 |
Lab 9 | Project 3 Due Sat., May 30 |
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| 05-14 | More Virtual Memory (PDF) (Online Lecture: Advanced $) |
P&H: 6.9, 4.9 | Discussion 18 | |||||
| 12 | 05-19 | Advanced Caches (PDF) (Online Lecture: Review & Summary) |
P&H: 5.12, 5.13, 5.15 | Lab 10 | ||||
| 05-21 | Review & Summary Midterm (PDF) (Online Q&A) |
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| 13 | 05-26 | Midterm | No Lab | Midterm Page 1 Midterm Midterm Solution (updated) |
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| 05-28 | Online Lecture: FPGA (PDF) | |||||||
| 14 | 06-02 | FPGA (Online Lecture: Warehouse Scale Computing, MapReduce, Spark) (PDF) |
P&H: A.12 FPGA | Lab 11 | Project 4 Due Sun., June 28 |
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| 06-04 | Warehouse Scale Computing, MapReduce, Spark (Online Lecture: I/O: DMA, Disks, Networking) (PDF) | P&H: 6.7 | ||||||
| 15 | 06-09 | I/O: DMA, Disks, Networking (Online Lecture: Dependability: Parity, ECC, RAID) (PDF) |
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P&H: 5.1, 5.2, 6.9 | Lab 12 | |||
| 06-11 | Dependability: Parity, ECC, RAID (Online Lecture: Security) (PDF) |
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P&H: 5.2, 5.5, 5.11, A.9 | |||||
| 16 | 06-16 | Security (Online Lecture: Final Review & Summary) |
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Meltdown & Spectre | Lab 13 | |||
| 06-18 | Summary (PDF) (Online Q&A Final) |
P&H: all | ||||||
| 17 | June 23 | Final 8am - 10am | Final p1 Final Final Solution |
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| 18 | June 29 & 30 | Checkup Lab | Project 4 checkup |
| Instructor | |||||
 Sören Schwertfeger 师泽仁 < soerensch> OH: You are always welcome! Wed. 10:00-15:00; Room: 1D 201.A |
 Chundong Wang < wangchd> OH: tbd. |
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TAs Please check the TA office hours on piazza. | |||||
 Yanjie Song < songyj> Head TA |
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 Anqi Pang < pangaq> |
 Cheng Yu < yucheng> |
 Hang Su < suhang> | |||
 Jinrui Wang < wangjr> |
 Kaiyuan Xu < xuky> |
 Mengying Wu < wumy1> | |||
 Peifan Li < lipf> |
 Peihao Wang < wangph> |
 Tianyuan Wu < wuty> | |||
 Ze Song < songze> |
 Zhongyi Cai < caozhy> |
 Zhongyue Lin < linzhy> | |||
TAs Subtitle TAs. | |||||
 Ge Yaoxin |
 Wang Rui | ||||
 Yuan Yijun |
 Zhang Ge |
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Syllabus
Check the syllabus for the CA course on egate.
Textbook
- P&H
- Patterson, David A. and Hennessy, John L. Computer Organization and Design RISC-V 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%