Calendar

Week

Date

Topics

Reading

1

9/1/10

Intro. To Advanced Computer Architecture[Note]

N/A

2

9/15/09

Review of Metrics and Pipelining [Note]
Review of memory hierarchy
[Note]

N/A

3

9/22/09

CLASS CANCLED

N/A

4

9/29/09

Instruction-Level Parallelism I [PDF]

 

Ch 2, Ch 3.1-3.4

Papers: [1] [2]

 

5

10/6/09

Instruction-Level Parallelism II[PDF]

Papers: [3]

6

10/13/09

 

VLIW[PDF]

 

Appendix G

Papers: [4]

7

10/20/09

Vector Processors[PDF]

Cache Optimization[PDF]

Appendix C, F

chapter 5

Papers: [5]

8

10/27/09

Virtual Memory [PDF]

5.4, Appendix C.4, C.5

Papers: [6]

9

11/03/09

Multiprocessor I [PDF]

chapter 4

Papers: [7]

10

11/10/09

Midterm Exam

11

11/17/09

Multiprocessor

12

11/24/09

Multithreading

13

12/1/09

Embedded Processor

Virtual Machines

I/O

 

14

12/8/09

Project Demo