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| 1 | 02-15 | Introduction (PDF) | P&H: 2.4 | No Discussion | HW 1 on Autolab! Due: Friday, Feb 25 |
No Lab | ||
| 02-17 | Intro to C I (PDF) | K&R: 1-6 | ||||||
| 2 | 02-22 | Intro to C II (PDF) | K&R Ch. 7-8, App A & B | Discussion 2 (PDF) | HW 2 Due: Tuesday, March 8 |
Lab 1 | ||
| 02-24 | RISC-V Intro (PDF) | P&H: 2.1 - 2.3 | ||||||
| 3 | 03-01 | RISC-V Decisions (PDF) | P&H: 2.6, 2.7, 2.9, 2.10 | Discussion 3 (PDF) | Lab 2 | |||
| 03-03 | RISC-V Instruction Formats (PDF) | P&H: 2.5, 2.10 | ||||||
| 4 | 03-08 | RISC-V Instruction Formats II (PDF) | P&H: 3.3 - 3.5 | Discussion 4 (PDF) | HW 3 Due: Friday, March 18 |
Lab 3 | Project 1.1 Due: Tuesday, March 22 |
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| 03-10 | RISC-V Multiplication & Floating Point Numbers (PDF) | P&H: 3.3 - 3.5 | ||||||
| 5 | 03-15 | Compiler, Assembler, Linker, Loader (CALL) (PDF) | P&H: 2.12 | Discussion 5 (PDF Video) | HW 4 HW 4 Solution Due: Wednesday, March 23 |
Lab 4 | Project 1.2 Due: Sunday, April 10 |
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| 03-17 | Intro to Synchronous Digital Systems (SDS), Logic (PDF) | P&H: A.2, A.3 | ||||||
| 6 | 03-22 | Functional Units, FSM (PDF) | P&H: A.3 - A.6 | Discussion 6 (PDF Video) | Lab 5 | |||
| 03-24 | RISC-V Datapath (PDF) | P&H: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 | ||||||
| 7 | 03-29 | RISC-V Single-Cycle Control (PDF) | P&H: 4.5 - 4.8 | Discussion 7 (PPT) | HW 5 Due: Monday, April 11 |
Lab 6 | ||
| 03-31 | RISCV 5-Stage Pipeline/Hazards (2020: PDF) | P&H: 4.5 - 4.9 | ||||||
| 8 | 04-07 | Superscalar (PDF) | P&H: 4.10, 4.11, 6.10, 6.11 | Discussion 8 (PDF Video) | No Lab | Project 2.1 Due: Tuesday, April 26 |
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| 9 | 04-12 | Memory Hierarchy, Fully Associative Caches (PDF) | P&H: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 | Discussion 9 (PDF Video) | Lab 7 | |||
| 04-14 | Caches: Direct-mapped, Set-associative, Program Performance with Caches (PDF) | P&H: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.8, 1.6 | ||||||
| 10 | Project 2.2 Due: Monday, May 9 |
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| 11 | 04-26 | Multilevel Caches, Cache Questions (PDF) | P&H: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.8, 1.6 | Discussion 10 (PDF Video) | HW 6 HW 6 Solution Due: Saturday, May 7 |
Lab 8 | ||
| 04-28 | Flynn Taxonomy, Data-Level Parallelism (PDF auxiliary PDF) | P&H: 1.7, 1.8, 4.10, 4.11, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.7 | ||||||
| 12 | 05-03 | Thread-Level Parallelism, OpenMP Intro (PDF) | P&H: 2.11, 5.10, 6.4, 6.5 | Discussion 11 (PDF Video) | HW 7 Due: Thursday, May 19 |
No Lab | ||
| 05-05 | Sync and OpenMP (PDF) | P&H: 2.11, 4.10, 5.10, 6.4, 6.5 | ||||||
| 13 | 05-10 | OS Support, Base and Bounds, Interrupts (PDF) | P&H: 5.13, 5.15, 5.16 | Discussion 12 (PDF Video) | Lab 9 | Project 3 Due: Monday, May 23 |
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| 05-12 | Virtual Memory (PDF) | P&H: A.12 | ||||||
| 14 | 05-17 | FPGA (PDF) | P&H: 6.9, 4.9 | Discussion 13 (PDF Video) | HW 8 HW 8 Solution Due: Tuesday, May 31 |
Lab 10 | Project 4 Due: Friday, June 3 |
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| 05-19 | Warehouse Scale Computing, MapReduce, Spark (PDF) | P&H: 6.7 | ||||||
| 15 | 05-24 | Advanced cache topics (PDF) | P&H: 5.1, 5.2, 6.9 | Discussion 14 (PDF Video) | Lab 11 Checkup P. 1.1 & 1.2 |
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| 05-26 | DMA, Disks, Networking (PDF) | |||||||
| 16 | 05-31 | Dependability: Parity, ECC, RAID (PDF) | P&H: 5.2, 5.5, 5.11, A.9 | Lab 12 Checkup P. 2.1 & 2.2 |
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| 06-02 | Midterm | |||||||
| 17 | 06-07 | Security (PDF) | Meltdown & Spectre | Lab 13 Checkup P. 3 & 4 |
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| 06-09 | Summary (PDF) | P&H: All | ||||||
| 18 | 06-18 | Final (9:00 - 10:40) |
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Sören Schwertfeger 师泽仁 < soerensch> |
Chundong Wang < wangchd> |
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Kaiyuan Xu < xuky> Head TA |
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Meng Chen < chenmeng>
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Bouyu Gou < gouby>
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Shan Ning < ningshanl>
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Jiadong Tu < tujd>
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Jinrui Wang < wangjr>
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Tianyuan Wu < wuty>
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Weiqi Wu < wuwq>
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Yiheng Wu < wuyh3>
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Bowen Xu < xubw>
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Hongdi Yang < yanghd>
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Cunhan You < youch>
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Qing Xu < xuqing2>
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Zhanrui Zhang < zhangzhr2>
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Yibo Zhao < zhaoyb1>
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Yida Zhao < zhaoyd1>
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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
CS110 Grading
- Homework: 40%
- 4 programming HW: 6% each
- 3 paper HW: 5% each
- HW1: 1%
- Lab: 5%
- Exams: 53%
- Midterm I: 14%
- Midterm II: 14%
- Final: 25%
- Participation: 2%
CS110P Grading
- P1.1: 17%
- P1.2: 17%
- P2.1: 16%
- P2.2: 16%
- P3: 17%
- P4: 17%