Wk | Lect. | Date | Lecture | Slides | Due | Ref. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | 1/3 | M | Intro/Overview | ppt pdf |
course info Assign Logic |
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2 | 1/5 | W | gates/logic/FSMs | ppt pdf audio | read | ||
1/7 | F | No Class | DSA Retreat | ||||
2 | 3 | 1/10 | M | arithmetic, pipelining, throughput, latency | ppt pdf audio |
Logic Due Assign Arith/ucode |
read |
4 | 1/12 | W | Memories... | ppt pdf audio | read | ||
5 | 1/14 | F | ALUs, Area/Time Tradeoffs, Virtualization... [maybe]What is required for computation? |
ppt pdf audio | |||
3 | 1/17 | M | No Class | MLK Holiday | |||
6 | 1/19 | W | Costs and Change, MOS Scaling | ppt pdf audio |
Arith/ucode DUE Assign instr |
read | |
7 | 1/21 | F | Energy and Power | ppt pdf audio | read | ||
4 | 8 | 1/24 | M | Instructions | ppt pdf audio |
instr Due Assign Compute |
read |
9 | 1/26 | W | Instruction Space Modeling | ppt pdf audio |
instr Ok (since listed here before) |
read | |
10 | 1/28 | F | Empirical Cost Comparisons | ppt pdf audio | read | ||
5 | 11 | 1/31 | M | Compute 1: LUTs | ppt pdf audio | Assign Assign Wire Req. | read |
12 | 2/2 | W | Compute 2: ALUs and PLAs | ppt pdf audio | Compute Due | read | |
13 | 2/4 | F | Interconnect 1: significance, delay, model, busses, and crossbars | ppt pdf audio | |||
6 | 14 | 2/7 | M | Interconnect 2: requirements and implications | ppt pdf audio | Assign Interconnect | read |
15 | 2/9 | W | Interconnect 3: hierarchical and fixedws | ppt pdf audio | read | ||
2/11 | F | No Class | Wire Req. Due | ||||
7 | 16 | 2/14 | M | Interconnect 4: switching requirements | ppt pdf audio | Assign Retime | read |
17 | 2/16 | W | Interconnect 5: Mesh | ppt pdf audio | read | ||
18 | 2/18 | F | Interconnect 6: MoT | ppt pdf audio | Interconnect Due | read | |
8 | 2/21 | M | No Class | President's Day | |||
19 | 2/23 | W | Retiming 1: requirements, reasons, transformations | ppt pdf audio | read | ||
2/25 | F | No Class | CS Interview | ||||
9 | 20 | 2/28 | M | Retiming 2: structures | ppt pdf audio |
Assign Final Exercise (handed out in class) |
read |
21 | 3/2 | W | Time Multiplexing | ppt pdf audio | read | ||
22 | 3/4 | F | Control | ppt pdf audio |
Retime due Assign EOT Feedback Questionnaire |
read | |
10 | 23 | 3/7 | M | Specialization | ppt pdf | read | |
? | 3/9 | W | Wrapup, Q&A | ppt pdf | |||
11 | 3/16 | W | Final Exercise Due 5pm |
This working calendar is on the web: http://www.cs.caltech.edu/courses/cs184/winter2005.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.