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Jan. 13 | Introduction and Overview; Bits and Numbers | P&H Ch. 1, Ch. 2.4, Topic notes: Introduction and Overview; Bits and Numbers, Topic notes: Bits and Bytes and Numbers |
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Jan. 16 | Bitwise Operations; Floating Point Representations; C and Unix; Lab 1: Bit Manipulations in C | P&H Ch. 3, Topic notes: C and Unix |
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Jan. 20 | More C and Unix | |
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Jan. 23 | More C and Unix; Instruction Set Architecture; MIPS Assembly: Simple Arithmetic, Registers | P&H Ch. 2.1-2.3, Topic Notes: MIPS ISA |
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Jan. 27 | MIPS ISA: Instruction Formats, Logical Operations, Branches; Lab 2: Decoding MIPS Instructons | P&H Ch. 2.5-2.7 |
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Jan. 30 | No Class - Instructor Out of Town | |
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Feb. 3 | MIPS Programming | Topic Notes: MIPS Programming |
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Feb. 6 | MIPS Programming; Lab 3: MIPS Programming in SPIM | |
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Feb. 10 | Introduction to Digital Logic; Lab 4: MIPS Insertion Sort | Topic Notes: Digital Logic, P&H App. C.1-C.2 (on the CD) |
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Feb. 13 | Digital Logic; Combinational Circuits | P&H App. C.3 |
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Feb. 17 | No Class - RPI on Monday Schedule | - |
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Feb. 20 | More Combinational Circuits: Arithmetic Logic Units | P&H App. C.5-C.6 |
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Feb. 24 | Sequential Circuits: Clocks, Latches, Flip-Flops, Counters; Lab 5: Sequential Circuits | Topic Notes: Sequential Circuits; P&H App. C.7-C.8 |
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Feb. 27 | Exam Review; Building Memory | Topic Notes: Building Memory; P&H App. C.9 |
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Mar. 3 | Exam 1 (everything up to MIPS Programming) | |
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Mar. 6 | No Class - Instructor on the DL | - |
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Mar. 10 | No Class - Spring Break | - |
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Mar. 13 | No Class - Spring Break | - |
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Mar. 17 | More Memory; Lab 6: A Simple Memory System | |
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Mar. 20 | Building Larger Memory; Memory Parity and Error Correction | |
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Mar. 24 | Review; Introduction to Data Paths and Control | Topic Notes: Data Path and Control; P&H Ch. 4.1-4.4 |
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Mar. 27 | Exam 2 (Digital Logic and Circuits) | |
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Mar. 31 | Pipelines and a Pipelined Data Path | Topic Notes: Pipelines; P&H Ch. 4.5-4.6 |
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Apr. 3 | Pipelines: Dealing with Hazards | P&H Ch. 4.7-4.8 |
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Apr. 7 | Pipeline Hazards Wrapup; Lab 7: Single-Cycle MIPS Subset Simulation | - |
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Apr. 10 | Control Hazards and Exceptions; Memory Hierarchies and Caches | Topic Notes: Exceptions; P&H Ch. 4.9-4.10; Topic Notes: Memory Hierarchy; P&H Ch. 5 |
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Apr. 14 | Memory Hierarchy: Caches; Lab 8: Pipelined MIPS Subset Simulation | |
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Apr. 17 | Virtual Memory; ISA Comparisons | Topic Notes: ISA Comparisons; P&H Ch. 2.17 |
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Apr. 21 | x86 Details; Parallelism | Topic Notes: Parallelism; P&H Ch. 4.10 |
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Apr. 24 | Parallelism | P&H Ch. 5.8; Topic Notes: Parallel Programming Introduction |
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Apr. 28 | Exam Review; Parallel Programming | |
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May 4 | Final Exam: 3-6 PM, DCC 324 | - |
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