Course Policy

Textbook P&H | Patterson & Hennesy | Computer Organization and Design | RISC-V Edition Textbook K&R | Kernighan & Ritchie | The C Programming Language...

2020, Aug 01    

Week 1 · Introduction · Numerical Representations

Readings | P&H 1.1–1.4, 2.4 | Lab 1 | Due Monday 8.24.20 at 11:59pm |

2020, Aug 01    

Week 2 · C Basics · Pointers, Arrays, Strings

Readings | K&R 1–6 | Lab 2 | Due Monday 9.7.20 at 11:59pm | Project 1 | Due Friday 9.11.20 at 11:59pm |

2020, Aug 02    

Week 3 · C Memory Management · Floating Point

Readings | K&R 7.8.5, 8.7 P&H 3.5, 3.9 | Lab 2 | Due Monday 9.7.20 at 11:59pm | Project 1 | Due Friday 9.11.20 at...

2020, Aug 03    

Week 4 · Assembly Language · RISC-V Basics

Readings | P&H 2.1–2.3, 2.6–2.10 | Lab 3 | Due Wednesday 9.16.20 at 11:59pm | Project 2 | Due Monday 9.28.20 at 11:59pm |

2020, Aug 04    

Week 5 · RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture

Readings | P&H 2.5, 2.10, 2.12 | Lab 3 | Due Wednesday 9.16.20 at 11:59pm | Lab 4 | Due Saturday 9.19.20 at 11:59pm |...

2020, Aug 05    

Week 6 · MIDTERM 1 · RISC-V ISA · Compiler, Assembler, Linker, Loader

Midterm 1 this Monday 9.21.20 at 3:30pm | Readings | P&H 2.5, 2.10, 2.12 | Project 2 | Due Monday 9.28.20 at 11:59pm | Lab...

2020, Aug 06    

Week 7 · Intro to Digital Systems · Finite State Machines

Readings | P&H A.2–A.6 | Lab 5 | Due Monday 10.5.20 at 11:59pm | Project 3A | Due Monday 10.12.20 at 11:59pm |

2020, Aug 06    

Week 8 · CPU Components · CPU Datapath

Readings | P&H 4.1, 4.3–4.5 | Lab 6 | Due Monday 10.12.20 at 11:59pm | Project 3A | Due Monday 10.19.20 at 11:59pm |

2020, Aug 06    

Week 9 · CPU Datapath · Control

Readings | P&H 4.1, 4.3–4.5 | Lab 7 | Due Monday 10.26.20 at 11:59pm | Project 3B | Due Monday 10.26.20 at 11:59pm |

2020, Aug 06    

Week 10 · 5-Stage CPU Pipeline · Memory Hierarchy

Readings | P&H 4.5–4.8, 4.10, 5.1–5.2 | Lab 7 | Due Monday 10.26.20 at 11:59pm | Project 3B | Due Monday 10.26.20 at 11:59pm |...

2020, Aug 06    

Week 11 · Caches

Readings | P&H 5.3, 5.4, 5.8, 5.9, 5.13 | Lab 8 | Due Monday 11.2.20 at 11:59pm | Project 4 | Due Wednesday 11.11.20 at...

2020, Aug 06    

Week 12 · MIDTERM 2 · Virtual Memory

Midterm 2 this Monday 11.2.20 at 3:30pm | Readings | P&H 5.6–5.8 | Lab 9 | Due Monday 11.9.20 at 11:59pm | Project 4 |...

2020, Aug 06    

Week 13 · Virtual Memory · Parallelism

Readings | P&H 5.7–5.8, 6.1–6.3, 6.5 | Lab 10 | Due Monday 11.16.20 at 11:59pm | Final Exam any three hours between next Friday 11.20.20...

2020, Aug 06    

Week 14 · Performance · Course Summary

Final Exam on Saturday 11.21.20 at TBD | No Readings | No Lab | WORK IN PROGRESS — UNDER CONSTRUCTION

2020, Aug 06    

Course Policy

Textbook H&P | Hennessy & Patterson | Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach | 6th Edition Required readings are posted on the course schedule and they...

2022, Aug 01