IC220 Spring 2011
January 2011
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Week 1 
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Class 1: Course Overview, Computer Anatomy (set 1).

Reading: Sections 1.1-1.3,1.5-1.6

Monday Schedule
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Class 2: Instructions (set 2)

Reading: 2.1-2.3,2.5-2.6
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Class 3: Instructions/Memory/Machine Language. Control Flow, pseudoinstructions (set 3)
Reading: 2.7
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Week 2 
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MLK Day
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Class 4: Control flow, looping.

HW 1 due (Ch. 1/part 2)
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Class 5: SPIM lab (meet in MI300)
(set5: spim)

Pre-Lab 1 due
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Week 3 
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Class 6: Constants, byte order

Course Paper Announcement
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Class 7: Stacks/procedures
(set4)
Reading: 2.8-2.10,2.12

HW 2 due (Ch. 2 cont)
(tips)
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Class 8: Nested procedures

Lab 1 (SPIM) due

SPIM Project announced

(starter code)

(updates)
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Week 4 
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Class 9: Finish nested procedures
         

February 2011
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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Class 10: Digital Logic (set 6)
Logic, minimization (set 7)
Reading: C.1, C.2, C.3. Skim C.5

HW 3 due (Ch. 2 end)



More on Ex 2-37: v1 v2
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Class 11: K-maps

Quiz (Ch. 2)
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Week 5 
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Class 12: Logic example, muxes (set 8).
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Class 13: Sequential logic, flip-flops
Reading: C.7-C.10, C.12 (skip Verilog details)

HW 4 due (App. C)
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Class 14: State machines, SRAM/DRAM

SPIM Project due


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Week 6 

X Week
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Class 15: Computer Arithmetic (set 9).

Feedback Due
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6 Week Exam
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Class 16: LogicWorks lab

(Meet in MI300)
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Week 7 
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Presidents Day
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Class 17: Number representation.
Reading: 2.4, 3.1-3.3. Skim 3.4.

6Wk Grades Due

LW Project announced
(helpful example)

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Class 18: MIPS FP instructions.
Reading: pages 259-262, section 3.8

LW lab due
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Week 8 
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Class 19: More Computer Arithmetic.
(set 10).

Paper description due
          

March 2011
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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Class 20: ALU, multiplication.
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Class 21: Performance. (set 12)
Reading: 1.4, 1.7-1.9

HW 5 due (Chap. 3)
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Week 9 
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Class 22: Perf. Metrics.

QUIZ(Chapter 3)

CS/IT survey due
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Class 23: Benchmarks.

LW Project due
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Class 24: Hardware lab.

HW 6 due(Chap. 1 perf)
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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: Processor intro
(set 13)
Reading: 4.1-4.4
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Class 26: Single cycle datapath.
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Class 27: Single cycle control
(set 14)
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Week 11 
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Class 28: Memory hierarchy
(set 15)
Reading: 5.1-5.3
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Class 29: Caching: blocks, associativity.

HW 7 due (Ch. 4)
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April 2011
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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Class 30: TBA
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Week 12 

X Week
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Class 31: Caching continued
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Class 32: Improved caching (set 16)
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12 Week Exam
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Feedback Due
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Week 13 
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Class 33: Cache performance

Paper v1.0 due
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12Wk Grades Due
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Class 34: PEER REVIEW DAY

HW 8 due (Chap. 5 start)
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Class 35: Virtual memory (set 17)
Reading: 5.4 (skip 511-515), 5.5, 5.11, 5.12
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Week 14 
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Ethics: Copyright and DMCA. Ethics reading

Ethics quiz
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Class 36: I/O
Reading: Chapter 6 (skip 6.10, 6.11)
(set 18).

HW 9 due (Chap. 5 cont)
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Class 37: Pipelining (set 19)
Reading: 4.5, 4.10, 4.11, 4.13, 4.14

Course paper due
(Paper Coversheet)
Sample Paper
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Week 15 
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Class 38: Pipelining
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Comp day
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Class 39: Multiple issue
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May 2011
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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Week 16 
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Class 40: Multicore, and SMT
(set 20) Reading: 2.11 (synch.), 7.1, 7.2

HW 10 due (Chap. 4 cont)
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Study Day
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First Final
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Final Exam (0755).

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Grades Due
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Last Final
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