All readings are in Hennessy and Patterson, unless otherwise specified.
Dates given are when we start on that topic.
Jan. 26 - Chapter 1: Computer design and evaluation
Feb. 2 - Chapter 2: Instruction set architecture
Feb. 14 - Appendix A: Instruction pipelining
Skip A.7, leave A.8 for Unit 4
Feb. 28 - Chapter 5: Memory Hierarchy Design
Skip 5.11-5.15
Mar. 28 - Chapter 3 and Section A.8: Hardware Instruction-Level
Parallelism
in Chapter 3, only 3.1-3.7 and 3.10 required, rest is background
material
April 25 - Chapter 4: Software Instruction-Level Parallelism
Skip 4.8 and global code scheduling in 4.4
May 2 - Chapter 7: Storage Systems
Skip 7.8, 7.12-13