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CMSC 411:
  Computer Systems Architecture


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All readings are in Hennessy and Patterson, unless otherwise specified.
Dates given are when we start on that topic.

Jan. 27 - Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Computer Design

Feb. 10 - Appendix A: Basic Pipelining

Feb. 19 - Chapter 2: Instruction-Level Parallelism

March 12 - Chapter 3: Limits on ILP

March 24 - Appendix C: Memory Hierarchy Basics

March 26 - Chapter 5: Advanced Memory Hierarchy

April 7 - Chapter 6 (except 6.5) - Storage Systems

April 21 - Chapter 4 - Multiprocessors

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