Class Schedule
The Viewgraphs of the lectures are available on Blackboard for students registered for this class.
| Lecture | Date | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 31st | Introduction to Microprocessors |
| 2 | September 14th | Introduction to Assemblers, Number Systems, etc. |
| 3 | September 21st | Instruction Set Architectures |
| 4 | September 28th | ISA contd., Assembly Language Programing |
| 5 | October 5th | Computer System Performance and Metrics |
| 6 | October 13th | (Tuesday) Pipelining |
| 7 | October 19th | Exam Review |
| 8 | October 26th | Midterm Exam |
| 9 | November 2nd | Memory Hierarchy |
| 10 | November 9th | Cache and Virtual Memory |
| 11 | November 16th | Superscalar Processors |
| 12 | November 23rd | Instruction Flow Techniques |
| 13 | December 4th | (Friday) Student Project Presentations |
| 14 | December 7th | Intel P6 and Netburst Microarchitectures |
| 15 | December 14th | Final Exam |
The schedule is subject to change!