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COSC 6385 Computer Architecture - Fall 2006

General issues

Time	Monday and Wednesday 1.00pm - 2.30pm
Location	PGH 232
Begin	August 21
Exams	1 homework: 10% 1 presentation at the end of the semester: 20% 2 midterm quizes: 40% (20% each) final exam: 30 %





Slides and additional material

• Lectures of August 21: Introduction and organizational issues
  ( 2 slides per page version is here )
• Lectures of August 23: Fundamental concepts
  ( 2 slides per page version is here )
• Lectures of August 28: Instruction Set Principles
  ( 2 slides per page version is here )
• Lectures of August 30: Pipelining
  ( 2 slides per page version is here )
• No lectures on Sept. 4th (Labour day)
• Lectures of Sept. 6th: Pipelining (II)
  ( 2 slides per page version is here )
• Lectures of Sept. 11th: No lecture, postponed to September 15th 2.30pm
• Lectures of Sept. 13th: No lecture, make-up day to be announced
• Lectures of Sept. 15th, make-up class for Sept. 11: Tomasolu's Algorithm
  ( 2 slides per page version is here )
  
• Lectures of Sept. 18th: Tomasolu's Algorithm (II)
  ( 2 slides per page version is here )
• Lectures of Sept. 20th: Correlated Branch Predictors
  ( 2 slides per page version is here )
  Here is the list of topics for the presentations at the end of the semester.
  
• Lectures of Sept. 25th: Exercises (I) and the according solutions
  
• Lectures of Sept. 27th: Homework (I)
  ( 2 slides per page version is here )
  The tar-file with the source code is here
• Lectures of Oct 2nd: Issuing Multiple Instructions
  ( 2 slides per page version is here )
  
• Lectures of Oct 4th: 1st Quiz
  Here are the reading assignments
  You are allowed to have three sheets of handwritten notes (both sides can be written) and a non-programmable calculator.
• Lectures of Oct 9th: Software ILP (I)
  ( 2 slides per page version is here )
  
• Lectures of Oct 11th: Software ILP (II)
  ( 2 slides per page version is here )
  
• Lectures of Oct 16th: Software ILP (III)
  ( 2 slides per page version is here )
  
• Lectures of Oct 18th: Vector Processors (I)
  ( 2 slides per page version is here )
  
• Lectures of Oct 23rd: Vector Processors (II)
  ( 2 slides per page version is here )
  
• Lectures of Oct 25th: Memory Hierarchy Design (I)
  ( 2 slides per page version is here )
  
• Lectures of Oct 30th: Memory Hierarchy Design (II)
  ( 2 slides per page version is here )
  
• Lectures of Nov. 1st: Review for the 2nd Quiz
  ( 2 slides per page version is here )
  Here are the reading assignments for the 2nd Quiz.
• Lectures of Nov. 6th: 2nd Quiz
  
• Lectures of Nov. 8th: Memory Hierarchy Design (III)
  ( 2 slides per page version is here )
  
• Lectures of Nov. 13th postponed to Nov. 17th.
• Lectures of Nov. 15th: Multi Processor Architectures
  ( 2 slides per page version is here )
  
• Lectures of Nov. 17th : hold in PGH 376 from 2.30pm until 5.30pm
  Lecture 1 (make up class for Sept 13th): File I/O
  ( 2 slides per page version is here )
  Lecture 2 (make up class for Nov. 13th): History of Computer Technology (no slides).
• Lectures of Nov. 20: Student presentation (I). Please note, that all all presentations and 2-page summaries are due by noon on Nov. 20th.
  
• No class on Nov. 22nd (Thanksgiving holidays)
  
• Lectures of Nov. 27th: Student presentations (II) and review for the final exam.
  Review for the Final Exam
  ( 2 slides per page version is here )
  Here are the reading assignments for the final exam.
  
• Lectures of Nov. 29th: Final Exam.
  

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