Note that starting March 23, class will meet via Zoom. For Zoom information about meetings and recordings, see "Useful links and information".
| Lecture date | Topics | Reading | Assignments |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 15 (W) | About the course; overview and introduction (Notes) | ||
| January 20 (M) | Holiday | ||
| January 22 (W) | Overview/introduction continued; defining and measuring performance (Notes) | 1 (except 1.7, 1.9) | |
| January 27 (M) | Machine-level instructions (Notes) | 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 | |
| January 29 (W) | Machine-level instructions, continued (Notes) | 2.5, 2.6 | Homework 1: HTML, PDF |
| February 3 (M) | Machine-level instructions, continued; support for procedures (Notes) | 2.7, 2.8 | Quiz 1 |
| February 5 (W) | Support for procedures, continued; addressing modes; system calls (Notes) | 2.9, 2.10, A.1, A.2, A.3, A.4, A.5, A.6, A.9, A.10 (introduction), A.11 | |
| February 10 (M) | (No class) | ||
| February 12 (W) | Addressing modes continued; system calls; writing complete programs for SPIM; assembly language revisited. (Notes) | Homework 2: HTML, PDF | |
| February 17 (M) | Review; extended MIPS programming example(s) (Notes) | Quiz 2 | |
| February 19 (W) | Assembling and linking revisited, with example(s); no class; video lecture (two parts) available via echo360.org (Notes) | Homework 3: HTML, PDF (accepted without penalty through 2/21) | |
| February 24 (M) | No class | ||
| February 26 (W) | No class | ||
| March 2 (M) | Source to executable revisited; more MIPS programming (Notes) | Homework 4: HTML, PDF | |
| March 4 (W) | More MIPS programming (Notes) | Quiz 3 | |
| March 9 (M) | Spring break | ||
| March 11 (W) | Spring break | ||
| March 16 (M) | No class (all classes cancelled by University) | ||
| March 18 (W) | No class (all classes cancelled by University) | ||
| March 23 (M) | Plans for remote teaching; review for Exam 1 (Notes) | ||
| March 25 (W) | MIPS support for parallelism; more exam review (Notes) | ||
| March 26 (W, 5pm-7pm), March 27 (R, 4pm-6pm) | (Not class days) | (Review in HTML, PDF) | Exam 1 |
| March 30 (M) | Numbers and arithmetic (Notes) | 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 (skim), 3.5 (skim), 3.6 (skim), 3.9, 3.10 | |
| April 1 (W) | Numbers and arithmetic, continued (Notes) | ||
| April 6 (M) | Introduction to designing a processor; a little about circuit design (Notes) | 4.1, B.1, B.2, B.3, B.5, B.7, B.8, B.9, B.10, B.13 | |
| April 8 (W) | More about designing a processor (Notes) | 4.2, 4.3 | |
| April 13 (M) | Designing a processor, continued (Notes) | 4.4 |
Quiz 4;
Homework 5 (Optional)
HTML,
PDF
(accepted without penalty through last day of class);
Homework 6 HTML, PDF (okay to turn in optional problems later) |
| April 15 (W) | Designing a processor, continued; introduction to pipelining (Notes) | 4.5, 4.6 | |
| April 20 (M) | Pipelining, continued; exceptions (Notes) | 4.7 (skim), 4.8 (skim), 4.9, 4.14, 4.15 | |
| April 22 (W) | A little about memory hierarchies and caching (Notes) | 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.10, 5.16 (skim all) | Quiz 5; Homework 7 HTML, PDF |
| April 27 (M) | A little about virtual machines; a little about parallel computing (Notes) | Quiz 6 | |
| April 29 (W) | Review for Exam 2; a little more about parallelism; course wrap-up and evaluations (Notes) | Homework 8 HTML, PDF (accepted without penalty through 5/01) | |
| May 7 (R, 4pm-6pm), May 12 (T, 4pm-6pm) | (Not class days) | (Review in HTML, PDF) | Exam 2 |
| May 14 (R) | (Not a class day) | Final deadline to submit homeworks, minute essays |