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]
3
9/22/09
CLASS CANCLED
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
