Week of	Monday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
March 30	Class Introduction Slides Text: Sections 1.1-1.3, 1.5-1.6	The MIPS R2000 ISA: Registers, memory, immediates, instruction encoding Sections 2.1-2.3, 2.5 Realize B.10 exists HW1 out	Binary represenations of data Text: 2.4, 2.9	The MIPS R2000 ISA: Logicals, Load/store, Branching Sections 2.6-2.7
April 6	Memory Layout, Assembling, Linking Sections 2.8-2.9, 2.10 Appendix B.1-B.5 HW1 due HW1 sample solution HW2 out	Assembling/Compiling with Cebollita Sections 2.14-2.15 Handout Tar'ed sample files	Compiling/assembling/linking: static data	Assembling/Compiling with Cebollita Procedure calls Section 2.8, B.6 Cebollita procedure call linkage Tar'ed proc call sample files
April 13	Procedure calls Section 2.8, B.6 HW2 due Sample HW2 solution files HW3 out	Procedure calls Section 2.8, B.6	TBA	Midterm review List of topics
April 20	Midterm I Answer key Q8 sample solution Grade histogram HW3A sample solution HW3B out	Intro to Datapaths Sections 4.1-4.3	Midterm discussion	Single-cycle: datapath & control Section 4.4, Appendix D Handout
April 27	The OS: Exceptions and Simple Address Translation Section 4.9, Appendix B.7 HW3B due HW4 out	Address Translation / Exceptions Section 4.9, Appendix B.7 Handout 1 Exceptions, Protection, and the OS	TBA	IO / System Calls / Boot Section 4.9, Appendix B.7 Handout 2 Exceptions, Protection, and the OS
May 4	IO / System Calls / Boot (cont.) HW4 due HW5 out	Performance Section 1.4 Handout	HW5	Pipelining     Section 4.5
May 11	Pipelining: Data path Section 4.6	Pipelining: Data Hazards Section 4.7	Midterm review	Pipelining: Forwarding HW5 due
May 18	Midterm II List of topics Answer key Grade histogram	Pipelining: Control Hazards Section 4.8	Midterm discussion	Pipelining: Control Hazards Branch Prediction Exceptions Chapter 6.6 HW6 out
May 25	Memorial Day	Caches I Sections 5.1-5.3	TBA	Caches II Sections 5.1-5.3, 5.8
June 1	Virtual memory I Section 5.4 HW6 due	Virtual memory II Sections 5.4-5.5	Course review	Instruction Level Parallelism Section 4.10 Slides Scoreboarding Details Tomasulo Details
June 8	Final Exam 8:30-10:20