IC220 - Spring 2008 - Calendar

IC220 Spring 2008

January 2008
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
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6 Week 1	7 Class 1: Course Overview, Computer Anatomy (set 1). Reading: Chapter 1 (1.7 optional)	8	9 Class 2: Instructions (set 2) Reading: 2.1-2.5	10	11 Class 3: Instructions/Memory/Machine Language HW 1 due (Ch. 1/part 2)	12
13 Week 2	14 Class 4: Control Flow, pseudoinstructions (set 3) Reading: 2.6	15	16 Class 5: Constants/looping (set4)	17	18 Class 6: SPIM lab (meet in MI300) (set5: spim) HW 2 due (Ch. 2 cont) Pre-Lab 1 due	19
20 Week 3	21 MLK Day	22	23 Class 7: Stacks/procedures. Reading: 2.7-2.10 Lab 1 (SPIM) due	24	25 Class 8: Nested procedures HW 3 due (Ch. 2 cont) SPIM Project announced	26
27 Week 4	28 Class 9: Digital Logic (set 6) Reading: B.1, B.2, B.3. Skim B.5	29	30 Class 10: Logic, minimization (set 7) QUIZ(Chapter 2)	31

February 2008
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
					1 Class 11: K-maps HW 4 due (Ch. 2/App. B)	2
3 Week 5	4 Class 12: Logic example, muxes (set 8)	5	6 Class 13: Sequential logic, flip-flops Reading: B.7-B.10, B.12 (skip Verilog details) SPIM Project due	7	8 Class 14: State machines, SRAM/DRAM HW 5 due (App. B end) AppB quiz	9
10 Week 6 X Week	11 Class 15: LogicWorks lab 2001-meet in MI303 3001/4001-meet in MI392 Feedback due	12	13 6 Week Exam	14	15 Class 16: Computer Arithmetic (set 9)	16
17 Week 7	18 Wash's BDay	19 Class 17: Number representation. Reading: 3.1-3.4. Skim 3.5 Monday Schedule	20 Class 18: More Computer Arithmetic. (set 10) Grades Due HW 6 due (Chap. 3) LW Project announced (helpful example)	21	22 Comp time (NO CLASS)	23
24 Week 8	25 Class 19: MIPS FP instructions LW lab due Paper description due	26	27 Class 20: Performance. (set 12) Reading: Chapter 4	28 DARPA Grand Challenge talk (1900, Rickover 102)	29 Class 21: Performance HW 7 due (Chap. 3 end)

March 2008
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
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2 Week 9	3 Class 22: Perf. Metrics / Benchmarks	4	5 Class 23: Processor intro (set 13) Reading: 5.1-5.4 HW 8 due (see deadline details on handout) (Chap. 4) LW Project due	6	7 Test 2 (Chapter 3 and 4) (practice exam)	8
9 Week 10	10 Spring Break	11 Spring Break	12 Spring Break	13 Spring Break	14 Spring Break	15
16 Week 11	17 Ethics reading due Ethics quiz	18	19 Class 24: Single cycle datapath	20	21 Class 25: Single cycle control (set 14 -- no PDF, get from instructor)	22
23 Week 12	24 Class 26: Single cycle control	25	26 Class 27: Multicycle datapath (set 15) Reading: 5.5, 5.10, 5.11. First two pages of 5.6 HW 9 due (Ch. 5 - single cyc)	27	28 Class 28: Multicycle implementation	29
30 Week 13 X Week	31 Class 29: Multicycle control

April 2008
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
		1	2 Class 30: Memory hierarchy (set 16) Reading: 7.1-7.3 Feedback Due	3	4 Hardware Lab HW 10 due (Ch. 5 - multi cyc)	5
6 Week 14	7 Class 31: Caching: blocks, associativity	8 Grades Due	9 Test 3 (Chapter 5) (practice exam)	10	11 Class 32: Improved caching (set 17) HW 11 due (Chap. 7 start)	12
13 Week 15	14 Class 33: Cache performance, Virtual memory (set 18)	15	16 Class 34: Virtual memory Reading: 7.4 (skip 531-536), 7.5, 7.7, 7.8	17	18 Class 35: I/O Reading: Chapter 8 (skip 8.8) (set 19) HW 12 due (Chap. 7 end)	19
20 Week 16	21 Class 36: Pipeling intro Reading: 6.1, 6.9-6.12 (set 20)	22	23 Class 37: Pipelining Course paper due (coversheet)	24	25 Class 38: Pipelining	26
27	28 Class 39: Multiple issue, Multiprocessors and SMT (set 21)	29 Reading Day	30 Study Day Start Finals