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Class Chap Comments
1 One Intro, Survival Skills, Benchmarks Units and Amdahl's Law Start Ch. 1 HW, WS 1
2   Dreaded CPU Equation MIPS, MFLOPS and Machines  
3, 4 More Machine Details ISA and Assembly Language Start Appendix B ( WS 2)
5,6,7 Appendix A Intro to MIPS ISA Intro MIPS Pipeline Start App A HW
7,8   Pipeline Hazards: Data, Structural Control Hazards
9,10 Multi-Cycle MIPS Loop Unrolling, Rescheduling WS 3W
11 Control Hazards  More Control Hazards  
12,13   More Multi-Cycle DLX  and  More  
14, 15  
16,17 Three Scoreboard Algorithim Tomasulo Algorithm More Ch. 4 HW
18,19 Five Other Instruction Level Parallelism Memory Hierarchy Basics Start Ch 5 HW, WS 5
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21,22 Improving Memory Performance Main and Virtual Memory
23    CPU and Memory CPI Effects
24 Seven, Eight Networks  Start Ch 7 HW--TBD
25, 26 Six, Nine Multiprocessors Models Parallel Processor Models HW TBD
27, 28   Overview and Loose Ends Review  
29   Final Exam: TBA (check blackboard)  
       
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