IC220 Spring 2007

January 2007
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Class 1: Course Overview, Computer Anatomy (set 1).
Reading: Chapter 1 (1.7 optional)

Monday Schedule
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Week 1 
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Class 2: Instructions (set 2)
Reading: 2.1-2.5
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Class 3: Instructions/Memory/Machine Language

HW 1 due (Ch. 1/part 2) /font>
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Class 4: Control Flow, pseudoinstructions (set 3)
Reading: 2.6
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Week 2 
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MLK Day
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Class 5: Constants/looping
(set4)

HW 2 due (Ch. 2 cont) /font>
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Class 6: SPIM lab (meet in MI392)
(set5: spim)

Pre-Lab 1 due
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Week 3 
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Class 7: Stacks/procedures. Reading: 2.7-2.10
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Class 8: Nested procedures

HW 3 due (Ch. 2 cont) /font>

SPIM Project announced
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Class 9: Digital Logic (set 6)
Reading: B.1, B.2, B.3. Skim B.5

Lab 1 (SPIM) due
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Week 4 
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Class 10: Logic, minimization (set 7)

QUIZ(Chapter 2)
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Class 11: K-maps

HW 4 due (Ch. 2/App. B) /font>
      

February 2007
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Class 12: Logic example, muxes (set 8)
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Week 5 
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Class 13: Sequential logic, flip-flops
Reading: B.7-B.10, B.12 (skip Verilog details)

SPIM Project due
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Class 14: State machines, SRAM/DRAM

HW 5 due (App. B end) /font>
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Class 15: LogicWorks lab (meet in MI392)
Feedback due

AppB quiz
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Week 6 

X Week
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Class 16: Computer Arithmetic (set 9)
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Class 17: Number representation.
Reading: 3.1-3.4. Skim 3.5
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6 Week Exam
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Week 7 
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Presidents Day
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Class 18: More Computer Arithmetic.
(set 10)

HW 6 due (Chap. 3) /font>
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Class 19: MIPS FP instructions

LW lab due

LW Project announced
(helpful example)
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Week 8 
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Class 20: ALU, multiplication.

Paper topic due
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Class 21: Performance. (set 12)
Reading: Chapter 4

HW 7 due (Chap. 3 end) /font>
      

March 2007
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Class 22: Perf. Metrics

Ch 3 quiz
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Week 9 
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Class 23: Benchmarks

LW Project due
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Class 24: Processor intro
(set 13)
Reading: 5.1-5.4

HW 8 due (Chap. 4) /font>
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Hardware Lab
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Spring Break
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Spring Break
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Spring Break
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Spring Break
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Spring Break
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Spring Break
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Week 10 
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Class 25: Single cycle datapath
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Class 26: Ethics: Copyright & DMCA

Ethics reading
Ethics quiz
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Class 27: Single cycle control
(set 14)
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Week 11 
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Class 28: Single cycle control
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Class 29: Multicycle datapath
(set 15)
Reading: 5.5, 5.10, 5.11. First two pages of 5.6

HW 9 due (Ch. 5 - single cyc) /font>
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Class 30: Multicycle implementation

Feedback Due
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April 2007
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Week 12 

X Week
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Class 31: Multicycle control

HW 10 due (Ch. 5 - multi cyc) /font>
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12 Week Exam
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Class 32: Memory hierarchy
(set 16)
Reading: 7.1-7.3
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Week 13 
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Class 33: Caching: blocks, associativity
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Class 34: Improved caching (set 17)

HW 11 due (Chap. 7 start) /font>
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Class 35: Cache performance, Virtual memory (set 18)
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Week 14 
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Class 36: Virtual memory
Reading: 7.4 (skip 531-536), 7.5, 7.7, 7.8
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Class 37: I/O
Reading: Chapter 8 (skip 8.8)
(set 19)

Course paper due
(coversheet)
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Class 38: Pipeling intro
Reading: 6.1, 6.9-6.12
(set 20)
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Week 15 
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Class 39: Pipelining
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Class 40: Pipelining

HW 12 due (Chap. 7 end)
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Class 41: Multiple issue, Multiprocessors and SMT
(set 21)

HW due (Chap. 6/8)
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29

Week 16 
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Study Day
          

May 2007
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Final Exam 1330 in MI200 (#2001) or MI223 (#3001/#4001) (sample exam)
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Grades Due
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