Working Calendar: CS184b, Winter 2001

1/12/00: We have moved to TR2:30-4pm. This schedule has been quickly revised to reflect this. The dates inside the printed reader pages (and, for now, the ones with the detailed reading list) are a bit off. The alignment of reading blocks to lecture days shown here is most accurate.

Wk Lect. Date Lecture Slides Handouts Ref.
1 1 1/3 M Why Architecture? ppt pdf course info
Assignment #1
HP1
etc.
2 2 1/8 M No Class Assignment #2
HP2
etc.
1/10 W No Class
3 1/11 R Class 2:30pm-4pm JRG 72
ISA 1
ppt pdf
3 4 1/16 T ISA 2 (RISC/CISC) Topics Assignment #3
HP3.6 soln
5 1/18 R Pipelined ISA 1 (Structural and Data Hazards) ppt pdf HP3
4 6 1/23 T Pipelined ISA 2 (Control Hazards etc....) ppt pdf Assignment #4
7 1/25 R Exceptions/ILP ppt pdf HP3.6
etc.
5 8 1/30 T ILP 1 ppt pdf Assignment #5 HP4
9 2/1 R ILP 2 ppt pdf
6 10 2/6 T ILP 3 (VLIW) ppt pdf assorted
reading
11 2/8 R ILP 4 (EPIC) ppt pdf Assignment #6
7 2/13 T No Class HP5
12 2/15 R Caching 1 (Intro) ppt pdf Assignment #7
8 13 2/20 T Caching 2 (Memory System and Cache Optimizations) ppt pdf
14 2/22 R Virtual Memory ppt pdf Assignment #8
9 15 2/27 T Binary Translation 1 ppt pdf assorted papers
3/1 R No Class
10 3/6 T No Class
16 3/8 R Review and Retrospective ppt pdf
11 3/11 Final Assignment Out Final
3/14-16 Finals Period
3/16 Final Due 5pm

This working calendar is on the web: http://www.cs.caltech.edu/courses/cs184/winter2001.html. Please, recheck the page on the web as details may be adjusted as the term progresses. Lectures notes, reading, and handouts will be filled as we reach them.


CS184: Computer Architecture