COURSE INFORMATION (First Handout)
William
Stallings Textbook Site
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
| Week |
|
| WEEK1, Sept 8 |
Introductory class, PART I (OVERVIEW), Chapter1
(Introduction) |
| WEEK2, Sept 15 |
Chapter 2 (Computer Evolution
& Performance) |
| WEEK3, Sept 22 |
PART II (THE COMPUTER SYSTEM), Chapter 3 (A Top-Level View of Computer Function and Interconnection) Presentation Project Assigned |
| WEEK4, Sept 29 |
Chapter 4 (Cache Memory) |
| WEEK5, Oct 6 |
Chapter 5 (Internal Memory): Presentation 1; Chapter 6 (External Memory): Presentations 2, 3 |
| WEEK6, Oct 13 |
Chapter 6 (External Memory): Presentation 4; Chapter 7 (Input/Output): Presentations 5, 6 |
| WEEK7, Oct 20 |
Chapter 8 (Operating System Support):
Presentations 7, 8, 9; midterm-review.txt |
| WEEK8, Oct 27 |
MIDTERM |
| WEEK9, Nov 3 |
PART III (THE CPU), Chapter 9 (Computer Arithmetic): Presentations 10, 11, 12, c.f. Appendix B (Digital Logic) |
| WEEK10, Nov 10 |
PART III (THE CPU), Chapter 10 (Instruction Sets): Presentations 13, 14 |
| WEEK11, Nov 17 |
Ch 12 (Registers/InstrucrionCycle/Pipelining); PART IV (Ch 16/17): THE CONTROL UNIT; Basics |
| WEEK12, Nov 24 |
Thanksgiving
(No Class) |
| WEEK13, Dec 1 |
PART
V (Chapter 18): PARALLEL ORGANIZATION; Piplining, Pentium MMX (Sec. 10.5), ...; SMP vs. Cluster (SharedMem vs. Distributed); SMP's Parallel Lab Tour |
| WEEK14, Dec 8 |
PART V (Chapter 18): PARALLEL
ORGANIZATION; Clusters, Switches, Grid final-review.txt |
| FINAL
Thursday, Dec 22, RI-117, 5:30-7:30pm -> December
15!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
|
A = Assigned
D = Due