ECEn 324 Fall 2009 Course
Schedule
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HW / Lab Due |
Exam |
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Mon 8/31 |
Introduction and Overview |
Preface, Chapter 1, Web pages |
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Tue 9/1 |
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Wed 9/2 |
Information Storage |
2.1 |
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Thu 9/3 |
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Fri 9/4 |
Integer Representations |
2.2 |
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Mon 9/7 |
Labor Day Holiday |
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Tue 9/8 |
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Wed 9/9 |
Integer Arithmetic |
2.3 |
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Thu 9/10 |
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Fri 9/11 |
Floating point numbers and operations |
2.4, 2.5 |
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Mon 9/14 |
Program Encodings, Data Formats |
3.1-3.4 |
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Tue 9/15 |
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Wed 9/16 |
Data Operations and Control |
3.5 - 3.6.4 |
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Thu 9/17 |
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Fri 9/18 |
Loops and Switches |
3.6.5 – 3.6.6 |
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Mon 9/21 |
Procedures |
3.7 |
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Tue 9/22 |
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Wed 9/23 |
Arrays |
3.8 |
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Thu 9/24 |
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Fri 9/25 |
Structs, alignment, pointers |
3.9-3.11 |
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Mon 9/28 |
GDB, Buffer
Overflow |
3.12-3.13 |
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Tue 9/29 |
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Wed 9/30 |
Floating point code, embedded assembly |
3.14-3.16, Less critical 3.14, 3.15 |
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Thu 10/1 |
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Fri 10/2 |
The Y86 ISA |
4.1 |
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Mon 10/5 |
Logic Design, Sequential Stages |
4.2 – 4.3.1 |
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Tue 10/6 |
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Exam 1 |
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Wed 10/7 |
Sequential Hardware and Timing |
4.3.2 – 4.3.5 |
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Exam 1 |
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Thu 10/8 |
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Fri 10/9 |
Pipelining
Principles |
4.4 |
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Mon 10/12 |
Pipeline registers, Branches, Hazards |
4.5.1 – 4.5.4 |
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Tue 10/13 |
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Wed 10/14 |
Stalling,
Forwarding |
4.5.5 –
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Thu 10/15 |
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Fri 10/16 |
Control Logic, Performance Analysis |
4.5.9 – 4.5.10 |
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Mon 10/19 |
Exceptions, Advanced Pipelining |
4.5.11 – 4.6 |
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Tue 10/20 |
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Wed 10/21 |
Performance,
Loops, Procedure Calls |
5.1 – 5.6 |
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Thu 10/22 |
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Fri 10/23 |
Modern CPUs |
5.7 |
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Mon 10/26 |
Loops, Pointer, and Parallelism |
5.8 – 5.10 |
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Tue 10/27 |
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Wed 10/28 |
Branch penalties, Profiling, AmdahlÕs law |
5.11 – 5.16, 5.13 less critical |
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Thu 10/29 |
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Fri 10/30 |
Storage Technologies |
6.1 |
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Mon 11/2 |
Locality, Memory hierarchies |
6.2 – 6.4.1 |
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Tue 11/3 |
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Wed 11/4 |
Cache Memories |
6.4.2 – 6.4.7 |
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Thu 11/5 |
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Fri 11/6 |
Writing cache friendly code, Memory mountains |
6.5 – 6.6.1 |
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Mon 11/9 |
Blocking, Exploiting locality |
6.6.2 – 6.8 |
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Tue 11/10 |
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Wed 11/11 |
Static linking, Object files, Symbol tables |
7.1 – 7.6 |
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Thu 11/12 |
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Fri 11/13 |
Symbol resolution, Relocation, Dynamic linking |
7.7 – 7.14, 7.12 less critical |
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Mon 11/16 |
Exceptions, Processes |
8.1 – 8.2 |
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Tue 11/17 |
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Wed 11/18 |
System Calls,
Process control |
8.3 – 8.4 |
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Thu 11/19 |
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Fri 11/20 |
Signals, Non-local jumps |
8.5 – 8.8 |
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Mon 11/23 |
Measuring time, Cycle counters, |
9.1 – 9.4.2 |
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Tue 11/24 |
Time-of-day measurements, K-best approach |
9.4.3 – 9.10 |
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Exam 2 |
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11/25 – 11/27 |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
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Mon 11/30 |
Virtual Memory |
10.1 – 10.5 |
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Tue 12/1 |
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Wed 12/2 |
Address Translation |
10.6 |
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Thu 12/3 |
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Fri 12/4 |
Pentium/Linux memory system |
10.7 |
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41 |
Mon 12/7 |
Memory Mapping |
10.8 |
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Tue 12/8 |
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42 |
Wed 12/9 |
Memory related bugs |
10.11 –
10.13 |
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Thu 12/10 |
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Mon12/14 |
Final Exam 11:00 AM
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