Preliminary calendar, subject to change!

Calendar

The Hardware Software Interface

Aug 25

Intro & What is Computer Architecture?

Syllabus

Aug 27

No Lab(re-)Introducing the HW-SW Interface

H&P 1.3, 1.9

Aug 29

Data Representations & Assembly

H&P A.1, A.2

Sept 1

Labor Day, no class!

Sept 3

Designing an Assembly Instruction

S&L 1.2

Assembly Lab

Sept 5

Assembly Design, cont.

H&P A.4, A.7 Check-In 1 in class

Sept 8

RISC v CISC

TCftRISC HW1 Released

Last Day to Add Course!

Basic Processor Design

Sept 10

Hardware Principles

TBD

Processor Emulator Gear-Up Lab

Sept 12

Building a Basic Processor (Part 1)

TBD

Sept 15

Building a Basic Processor (Part 2)

TBD

Sept 17

Single Cycle Processor Control and Performance

TBD

GDB Lab

Sept 19

Building a Pipelined CPU

TBD Check-In 2 in class

Sept 22

Pipelined Processor (Part 2)

TBD

Sept 24

Pipeline Pitfalls and Hazards

TBD

Intro to gem5 Lab

Sept 26

Managing Hazards

TBD

Sept 29

Introducing Processor Control

TBD

Memory Hierarchy

Oct 1

Memory Hierarchy Overview

TBD

Cache Assignment Gear-Up Lab

Oct 3

Storage Devices

TBD Check-In 3 in class HW1 due HW2 released

Oct 6

Cache Controller Construction (part 1)

TBD

Oct 8

Cache Controller Construction (part 2)

TBD

Cache Performance Lab

Oct 10

Understanding and Mitigating Misses

TBD

Oct 13

Fall Break, no class

Oct 15

Coherence, continued

TBD

ISA Leakage Gear-Up Lab

Tomorrow is the last day to drop course!

Oct 17

Shared Caches

TBD Check-In 4 In-class

Oct 20

Cache Security and Mitigations

TBD

Oct 22

Cache Attacks, cont.

TBD

Cache Performance Lab

Oct 24

Recontextualizing the Memory System

TBD

Advanced Processing (Control Instructions)

Oct 27

Basic Control Instructions

TBD

Oct 29

Constructing a Data path for Control Instructions

TBD HW2 Due

Lab: HW2 Extended Office Hours

Oct 31

The Negative Impact of Branching

TBD CHECK-IN 5 IN CLASS

Nov 3

Strategies to Handle Branches

TBD HW3 Released

Nov 5

Motivating Branch Prediction

TBD

ISA Assignment Gear-Up

Nov 7

Speculative Execution Attacks (Part 1)

TBD

Nov 10

Speculative Execution Attacks (Part 2)

TBD

Nov 12

Advanced Instruction Level Parallelism

TBD

Branch Prediction Lab

Nov 14

NO CLASS

Modern Computer Architectures

Nov 17

Multicore Architectures

TBD

Nov 19

More Multicore Architectures

TBD

Ahmdahl’s Law Lab

Nov 21

A(Very Brief) Overview of GPUs

TBD

Nov 24

Green Computing

TBD