Week |
Date |
Topic |
Reading |
Discussion |
Homework |
Lab |
Project |
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| 1 | 18 Feb | Introduction | P&H: 1.2 | No Discussion | HW 1 on Gradescope! Due: 25 Feb |
No Lab | |
| 20 Feb | Info Representation | P&H: 2.4 & 3.5; K&R: 1-6 | Lab 1 | ||||
| 2 | 25 Feb | Intro to C | K&R: 1-6 | Discussion 2 | |||
| 27 Feb | C memory management | P&H: 2.6, 2.7, 2.9, 2.10 | HW 2 Due: 17 Mar |
Lab 2 | |||
| 3 | 4 Mar | RISC V I | P&H: 2.5, 2.10 | Discussion 3 | Lab 3 | ||
| 6 Mar | RISC V II | (Venus Tutorial Part I, Part II, Part III) |
Project 1.1 Due: 27 Mar |
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| 4 | 11 Mar | RISC V III | P&H: 2.6, 2.7, 2.9, 2.10 | Discussion 4 | Lab 4 | ||
| 13 Mar | CALL | P&H: 2.12 | |||||
| 5 | 18 Mar | Digital circuits I | P&H appendix A.1-A.3 | Discussion 5 | HW 3 Due: 1 Apr |
Lab 5 (Logisim Tutorial: Part I, Part II, Part III) |
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| 20 Mar | Digital circuits II | P&H appendix A.5-A.8, A10-A.11 | |||||
| 6 | 25 Mar | Datapath | P&H: 4.1-4.3 | Discussion 6 | Lab 6 | ||
| 27 Mar | Datapath & Controllers | P&H: 4.1-4.4 | Project 1.2 Due: 17 Apr |
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| 7 | 1 Apr | Datapath & Controllers (cont.) | P&H: 4.1-4.4 | Discussion 7 | HW 4 Due: 15 Apr (Solution) |
Lab 7 (Cancelled for Project Offline Checking) |
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| 3 Apr | Pipeline | P&H: 4.5-4.7 & 4.8 & 4.10 | |||||
| 8 | 8 Apr | Pipeline II & Multi-Issue | P&H: 4.8 & 4.10 | Discussion 8 | Lab 8 | Project 1.1 Offline Checking | |
| 10 Apr | Mid-Term I (Solution) |
Project 2.1 Due: 5 May |
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| 9 | 15 Apr | Cache I | P&H: 5.1-5.4 | Discussion 9 | Lab 9 | ||
| 17 Apr | Cache II | P&H: 5.1-5.4 | HW 5 Due: 7 May (Solution) |
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| 10 | 22 Apr | Cache III | P&H: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.8, 1.6 | Discussion 10 | Lab 10 | ||
| 24 Apr | Cache IV | P&H: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.8, 1.6 | |||||
| 11 | 29 Apr | Parallelism | P&H: 1.7, 1.8, 4.10, 4.11, 6.1-6.7 | Discussion 11 | HW 6 Due: 12 May |
Lab 11 | Project 2.2 Due: 19 May |
| 1 May | Labor Day! | ||||||
| 12 | 6 May | Thread Level Parallelism | P&H: 2.11, 5.10, 6.4, 6.5 | Discussion 12 | Lab 12 | ||
| 8 May | Thread Level Parallelism II | P&H: 2.11, 5.10, 6.4, 6.5 | Project 3 Due: 29 May |
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| 13 | 13 May | Thread Level Parallelism III & Hardware Multithreading | P&H: 2.11, 5.10, 6.4, 6.5 | Discussion 13 | HW 7 Due: 23 May (Solution) |
Lab 13 | |
| 15 May | Mid-Term II (Solution) |
Project 4 Due: 3 June |
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| 14 | 20 May | Advanced Cache | Lab 14 | ||||
| 22 May | Operating System & IO | Discussion 14 | HW 8 Due: 5 June (Solution) |
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| 15 | 27 May | Virtual Memory | |||||
| 29 May | DMA & Network & Warehouse Scale Computing | ||||||
| 16 | 3 June | Fault Tolerance & Security | |||||
| 5 June | Heterogenous Computing and Summary | Discussion 16 | |||||
| 17 | 10 June | ||||||
| 12 June | Final Exam (Solution) |
| Instructors | |||||
Chundong Wang < wangc> |
Siting Liu < liust> |
Yuan Xiao < xiaoyuan> |
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TAs Please check the TA office hours on piazza. |
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Songhui Cao < caosh2022>
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Lei Jia < jialei2022>
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Zhaojun Ni < nizhj2022>
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Luyue Tian < tianly2022>
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Yutong Wang < wangyt32023>
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Yizhou Wang < wangyzh2024>
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Hanjia Cui < cuihj2024>
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Guanghui Hu < hugh2024>
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Daqian Cao < caodq>
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Li Zhu < zhuli2023>
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Kunchang Guo < guokch2024>
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Jiale Wang < wangjl2024>
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Yanjie Song < songyj>
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Meng Chen < chenmeng>
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Ruyue Yan < yanry2024>
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Syllabus
Check the syllabus for the CA course on egate.
Textbook
- P&H
- Patterson, David A. and Hennessy, John L. Computer Organization and Design RISC-V edition. Morgan Kaufmann.
References
- K&R
- Kernighan, Brian W. and Ritchie, Dennis M. The C Programming Language (2rd ed.). Prentice Hall.
Requirements
- Reading
- Read the chapters before class. We will not read the textbook to you during class. Rather, we will help you better understand certain materials in the textbook.
- Class participation
- Participate actively in the discussions both in class and on the forum.
- Communication
- Read your email and the forum at least once in any 12 hour period (including weekends and holidays), as I may post important announcements.