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Autumn 98-99 - Prof. Olukotun

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FINAL EXAM DECEMBER 10th 3:30-6:30pm
Building 200, RM02
All Local SITN students must come

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      Thu, Sept 24  Introdution, performance, computer design
Ch. 1
      Tue, Sept 29  Evaluating performance and cost
Ch. 1
Hw 1
      Thu, Oct 1  ISA design principles and the VAX (CISC)
Ch 2.1-2.6
      Tue, Oct 6  DLX (RISC), compiler effects, ISA measurements
Ch 2.7-2.8
Pgm 1
Hw 2
Hw 1
      Thu, Oct 8  Basic pipelining, pipeline hazards
Ch 3.1-3.4
      Tue, Oct 13  Control hazards
Ch 3.5-3.6
Hw 3
Hw 2
      Thu, Oct 15  Multicycle operations, exceptions
Ch 3.7-3.9
Pgm 2
Pgm 1
      Tue, Oct 20  Instruction level parallelism, dynamic scheduling
Ch 4.1-4.2
      Thu, Oct 22  Branch prediction
Ch 4.3
Hw 4
      Tue, Oct 27  Speculation and compilers
Ch 4.5,4.6
Hw 3
      Thu, Oct 29  Multiple instruction issue, speculation
Ch 4.4,4.8
      Tue, Nov 3  Midterm exam
(Gates B01)
Ch 1-3
      Thu, Nov 5  MIPS R10k pipeline
Handout
Hw 4
      Tue, Nov 10  Caches 1: design, evaluation, reducing misses
Ch 5.1-5.3
Pgm 3
Pgm 2
      Thu, Nov 12  Caches 2: reducing penalities
Ch 5.4-5.5
Hw 5
      Tue, Nov 17  Memory 1: main memory
Ch 5.6
      Thu, Nov 19  Memory: virtual memory, 21064 memory hierarchy
Ch 5.7-5.10
      Tue, Nov 24  I/O: performance, disks, buses
Ch 6.1-6.3
Hw 6
Hw 5
      Tue, Dec 1  I/O: memory interface, I/O benchmarks
Ch 6.4-6.6
Pgm 3
      Thu, Dec 3  I/O: I/O design, file caches
Ch 6.7-6.8
      Mon, Dec 7
 		Final exam
(3:30-6:30pm)
Ch 1-7

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