| No. | Day | Date | Topics | Textbook Reading |
| 1 |
Mon | 1/7 | Review topics from CDA3103 ("Boolean and Digital Logic", "Instruction Set Architecture") | |
| 2 |
Wed | 1/9 | Hierarchy of virtual machines, interpretation vs translation, logical equivalence of software & hardware, components of a computer | 1-13, 39-50, LN-1 |
| 3 |
Mon | 1/14 | CPU interpretation cycle, parallel architectures, pipelining (hazards) | 55-73, LN-2 |
| 4 | Wed | 1/16 | endian, Memory, error correction (SEC & DED) | 73-82, LN-3, LN-4
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| Mon | 1/21 | Martin Luther King's Day - University closed | ||
| 5 | Wed | 1/23 | Cache, RAID, I/O devices, modems, unicode | 82-141, LN-5, LN-6 |
| 6 | Mon | 1/28 | Transistor, logic gates, multiplexer, demultiplexer, encoder, decoder, circuit design & reduction, boolean algebra, Karnaugh maps, Comparator, PLA shifter, adder, ALU |
147-163, LN-7, LN-8
163-167, LN-9 |
| 7 | Wed | 1/30 | Clock, latch, flip-flop, memory organization, CPUs, Bus, synchronous, asynchronous, arbitration, interrupt control | 168-201, LN-10 |
| 8 | Mon | 2/4 | PCI bus, USB bus, Parallel I/O, memory-mapped I/O | 215-236, LN-11 |
| 9 | Wed | 2/6 | Data path, control signals, micro instructions, micro architecture
MicArchBasics_video, MicArchBasics_notes |
243-258, LN-15 |
| 10 | Mon | 2/11 | Local addressing, frame pointer register, IJVM instruction set and its semantics | 258-261, LN-18 |
| 11 | Wed | 2/13 | IJVM semantics, Mic-1 architecture
Mic-1_Arch_video, Mic-1_Arch_notes |
262-267 LN-16, LN-17 |
| 12 | Mon | 2/18 | Microprogram for Mic-1
Mic-1_Microprogram_video, Mic-1_Microprogram_notes |
262-282, LN-20 |
| 13 | Wed | 2/20 | Interpretation of INVOKEVIRTUAL, IRETURN, WIDE
Mic-1_Method_video, Mic-1_Method_notes |
267-282, LN-20, LN-21 |
| 14 | Mon | 2/25 |
Mid-term exam |
Chs. 1 - 4.3 |
| 15 | Wed | 2/27 | Mic-2 (IFU, 3-bus), Mic-3 (4-stage), Mic-4 (7-stage) architectures
Mic-1_SimDemo_video, Mic-1_SimDemo_notes |
283-303 |
| 16 | Mon | 3/4 | Microprogram for Mic-2 | 294-295 |
| 17 | Wed | 3/6 | Cache organization, direct-mapped cache, branch prediction | 304-310 |
| Mon | 3/11 | Spring Break - No class | ||
| Wed | 3/13 | Spring Break - No class | ||
| 18 | Mon | 3/18 | branch prediction (static and dynamic), pipeline hazards | 310-315, LN-3 |
| 19 | Wed | 3/20 | multiple instruction execution: scoreboard (in-order) and Tomasulo (out-of-order with register renaming), speculative execution | 315-323 |
| 20 | Mon | 3/25 | Review all concepts of micro architecture | |
| 21 | Wed | 3/27 | RISC architecture: register file, overlapping register windows, CWP, register file overflow/underflow, WIM | RISC Architecture |
| 22 | Mon | 4/1 | Expanding opcode, addressing modes, stack addressing (infix to postfix and postfix evaluation) | 365-367, 376-379, LN-22 |
| 23 | Wed | 4/3 | Instruction types, Flow control, co-routines, trap, interrupt (nested interrupts, interrupt priority, mask bit) | 386-397, 404-417 |
| 24 | Mon | 4/8 | Parallel architectures, on-chip parallelism
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553-556, 562-574 |
| 25 | Wed | 4/10 | Coprocessors: network-, media-, and crypto- processors | 574-586 |
| 26 | Mon | 4/15 | Shared-memory multiprocessors: taxonomy, memory semantics, snooping caches, shared-memory cache coherence MESI protocol, UMA, NUMA, COMA multiprocessors | 586-616 |
| 27 | Wed | 4/17 | Message-passing multicomputers: topology, MPP, cluster computing, communication, scheduling, Google architecture, Review | 616-636, LN-3 |
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Mon | 4/22 |
Final exam: 7:15pm - 9:15pm |
Chs. 4, 5, 8 |