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| 1 | 02-23 | Introduction (PDF) | P&H: 2.4 | HW 1 on Autolab! Due: Tuesday, March 02 |
No Lab | ||
| 02-25 | Intro to C I (PDF) | K&R: 1-6 | |||||
| 2 | 03-02 | Intro to C II (PDF updated Mar 04) | K&R Ch. 7-8, App A & B | Discussion 2 | HW 2 Due: Friday, March 19 |
Lab 1 | |
| 03-04 | RISC-V Intro (PDF) | P&H: 2.1 - 2.3 | |||||
| 3 | 03-09 | RISC-V Decisions (PDF) | P&H: 2.6, 2.7, 2.9, 2.10 | Discussion 3 | Lab 2 | Project 1.1 Due: Friday, March 26 |
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| 03-11 | RISC-V Instruction Formats (PDF) | P&H: 2.5, 2.10 | |||||
| 4 | 03-16 | RISC-V Multiplication & Floating Point Numbers (PDF) | P&H: 3.3 - 3.5 | Discussion 4 | HW 3 Due: Friday, April 02 |
Lab 3 | |
| 03-18 | Compiler, Assembler, Linker, Loader (CALL) (PDF) | P&H: 2.12 | |||||
| 5 | 03-23 | Intro to Synchronous Digital Systems (SDS), Logic (PDF) | P&H: A.2, A.3 | Discussion 5 | Lab 4 | Project 1.2 Due: Friday, April 16 |
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| 03-25 | Functional Units, FSM (PDF) | P&H: A.3 - A.6 | |||||
| 6 | 03-30 | RISC-V Datapath (PDF) | P&H: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 | Discussion 6 | Lab 5 | ||
| 04-01 | RISC-V Single-Cycle Control (PDF) | P&H: 4.5 - 4.8 | |||||
| 7 | 04-06 | Midterm I | Discussion 7 | HW 4 Due: Wednesday, April 21 Solution |
No Lab | Midterm I Midterm I solution |
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| 04-08 | RISCV 5-Stage Pipeline/Hazards (PDF) | P&H: 4.5 - 4.9 | |||||
| 8 | 04-13 | Superscalar (PDF) | P&H: 4.10, 4.11 | Discussion 8 | Lab 6 | Project 2.1 Due: Friday, April 30 |
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| 04-15 | Performance & Midterm I Review (PDF) | P&H: 6.10, 6.11 | |||||
| 9 | 04-20 | Memory Hierarchy, Fully Associative Caches (PDF) | P&H: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 | Discussion 9 | HW 5 Due: Wednesday, May 12 |
Lab 7 | |
| 04-22 | Caches: Direct-mapped, Set-associative, Program Performance with Caches (PDF) | P&H: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.8, 1.6 | |||||
| 04-25 | Multilevel Caches, Cache Questions (PDF) | P&H: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.8, 1.6 | |||||
| 10 | 04-27 | Flynn Taxonomy, Data-Level Parallelism (PDF) | P&H: 1.7, 1.8, 4.10, 4.11, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.7 | Discussion 10 | Lab 8 | ||
| 04-29 | Thread-Level Parallelism, OpenMP Intro (PDF) | P&H: 2.11, 5.10, 6.4, 6.5 | |||||
| 11 | 05-06 | Cache Coherence, OpenMP Sharing Issues (PDF) | P&H: 2.11, 4.10, 5.10, 6.4, 6.5 | No Discussion | HW 6 ($ on paper) Due: Wed May 19 Solution |
No Lab | Project 2.2 Due: Wednesday, May 19 |
| 12 | 05-11 | Midterm II | Discussion 11 | Lab 9 | Midterm II Midterm II solution |
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| 05-13 | OS Support, Base and Bounds, Interrupts (PDF) | P&H: 5.13, 5.15, 5.16 | |||||
| 13 | 05-18 | Virtual Memory (PDF) | P&H: 6.9, 4.9 | Discussion 12 Video Disc 12 |
HW 7 (C++) Due: Fri June 4 |
Lab 10 Checkup P. 1.1 & 1.2 |
Project 3 Due: Monday, May 31 |
| 05-20 | FPGA (PDF) | P&H: A.12 | |||||
| 14 | 05-25 | Warehouse Scale Computing, MapReduce, Spark (PDF) | P&H: 6.7 | Discussion 13 | Lab 11 Checkup P. 2.1 & 2.2 |
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| 05-27 | DMA, Disks, Networking (PDF) | ||||||
| 15 | 06-01 | Advanced Cache Topics & Midterm II Review (PDF) | P&H: 5.1, 5.2, 6.9 | Discussion 14 | HW 8 (VM on paper) Due: Friday, June 11 Solution |
Lab 12 Checkup P. 3 |
Project 4 Due: P4 checkup week 17 |
| 06-03 | Dependability: Parity, ECC, RAID (PDF) | P&H: 5.2, 5.5, 5.11, A.9 | |||||
| 16 | 06-08 | Security (PDF) | Meltdown & Spectre | Lab 13 | |||
| 06-10 | Summary (PDF) | P&H: All | |||||
| 17 | 06-17 10:30 - 12:30 |
Final | Project 4 Checkup Final Final solution |
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Sören Schwertfeger 师泽仁 < soerensch> OH: You are always welcome! Wed. 10:00-15:00; Room: 1D 201.A |
Chundong Wang < wangchd> OH: Fri. 9:00-11:00; Room: 1A 504.D |
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Kaiyuan Xu < xuky> Head TA |
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Tiansu Chen < chents>
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QiYuan Dai < daiqy>
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Guancheng Li < ligch>
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Peifan Li < lipf>
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Shaoting Peng < pengsht>
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Chenyu Wang < wangchy4>
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Jinrui Wang < wangjr>
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Teng Xu < xuteng>
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Zhe Ye < yezhe>
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Ziyi Yu < yuzy>
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Chibin Zhang < zhangchb1>
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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: 19%
- Lab: 5%
- Exams: 40%
- Participation: 3%