CSE378 Schedule (Winter 2002)

This course schedule will be updated several times a week, so check it often. Entries in bold are (probably) for sure.
The dates for the readings indicate the day that the reading should have been read.

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Week
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
1
1/7
 Architecture overview
Readings:
  • Chapter 1.2
  • the rest of the chapter is an optional overview of computers
  • Appendix A.1-A.5, A.8, A.9
    • 1/9
    		 What is architecture?
    Binary number system
    Readings: Chapter 4.1-4.4
    1/11
    		 Overview of MIPS ISA
    Readings:
  • Chapter 3.1-3.4
    • 2
    1/14
    		 Computation instructions
    Data transfer instructions

    Introduction to SPIM assignment due
    1/16
    		 Control Instructions
    Other instructions
    Readings:
  • Chapter 3.5
    Binary number system assignment due
    (I will be out of town; Harlan will give the lecture.)
    • 1/18
    		 Addressing modes
    Procedure calls
    Readings:
  • Chapter 3.8
  • Chapter 3.6,
  • Appendix A.6
    • 3
    1/21
    		 Martin Luther King Day
    1/23
    		 Evolution of ISAs
    Readings:
  • Chapter 3.15
    Stack machine assignment due
    • 1/25
    		 Comparing RISC & CISC

    (I will be out of town; Harlan will give the lecture.)
    4
    1/28
    		 Performance Metrics
    Readings:
  • Chapter 2
  • pp. 99-101
    • 1/30
    		 Single-cycle implementation: the datapath
    Readings:
  • Chapter 5.1 and 5.2 (see email for the parts you should omit)
    Procedure call assignment due
    • 2/1
    		 Single-cycle implementation: control
    Readings:
  • Chapter 5.3
    • 5
    2/4
    		 Multiple cycle implementation
    Readings:
  • Chapter 5.4
    • 2/6
    		 Microprogramming
    Readings:
  • Chapter 5.5, 5.7 - 5.10, C-23, C-24, C-77 - C-29
    • 2/8
    		 Review for midterm?
    Pipelining
    Readings: Chapter 6.1 - 6.3
    6
    2/11
    		 Midterm

    (I will be out of town; the TA's will monitor the exam.)
    2/13
    		 Pipelining
    Structural hazards
    2/15
    		 Data hazards
    Readings:
  • Chapter 6.4 & 6.5
    • 7
    2/18
    		 Presidents Day
    2/20
    		 Control hazards
    Readings:
  • Chapter 6.8 on
    Sloop single-cycle machine assignment due
    • 2/22
    		 Pipelines in today's microprocessors
    8
    2/25
    		 Pipelines in today's microprocessors
    2/27
    		 Exceptions
    Readings:
  • p. 223
  • Chapter 5, sections 5.6, 6.7
    • 3/1
    		 Introduction to memory hierarchies & caches
    Readings:
  • Chapter 7.1 & 7.2
    • 9
    3/4
    		 Cache design
    Readings:
  • Chapter 7.3
    Sloop pipelining assignment due
    • 3/6
    		 Cache design & performance
    Readings:
  • pp. 609-611, 629
    • 3/8
    		 Virtual Memory
    Readings:
  • Chapter 7.4 & 7.5
    • 10
    3/11
    		 Virtual Memory
    Readings: Chapter 7.6 - 7.9
    3/13
    		 Virtual Memory
    Sloop cache assignment due
    3/15
    		 Simultaneous Multithreading
    Review for the final
    Cache & virtual memory problems due
    10
    3/18
    3/20
    		 Final 8:30 - 10:20

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