Tentative schedule for CIS 451

Week	Date	Topics	Reading	Milestones
1	Mon. 7 Jan.	Introduction CPU performance	History and Benchmarking P&H Sections 1.6 and 1.8	Assign First Day Survey Assign Homework 1: Single Cycle Performance
	Wed. 9 Jan.	More CPU performance Performance of Single Cycle CPU	H&H Section 7.3.4	Due First Day Survey
	Fri. 11 Jan.	MIPS with and without offsets		Assign Homework 2: Single Cycle Performance


2	Mon. 14 Jan.	Benchmarks More Performance Examples		Due Homework 1: Single Cycle Performance
	Wed. 16 Jan.	Word Size Number of Registers Fixed vs. Variable width instructions	Architecture, Language, and Compiler History	Assign Homework 3: Intel Machine Language
	Fri. 18 Jan.	Addressing Modes Which addressing modes to support	H&H Section 6.5; P&H Section 2.10	Due Homework 2: Single Cycle Performance Due Quiz 1: Architecture, Language, and Compiler History


3	Mon. 21 Jan.	No Class
	Wed. 23 Jan.	Load/Store vs. Register/Memory CISC/RISC Multi-cycle CPU	CISC vs. RISC H&H Section 7.4
	Fri. 25 Jan.	Microcode	Microcode


4	Mon. 28 Jan.	Snow Day!		Due Practice Test 1: Due Homework 3: Intel Machine Language Assign Homework 4: Multicycle Microcode
	Wed. 30 Jan.	Cold Day!
	Fri. 1 Feb.	What were they thinking?


5	Mon. 4 Feb.	Microcode Homework Multi-cycle Performance
	Wed. 6 Feb.	Test Review Pipeline review		Assign Homework 5: Multicycle CPU
	Fri. 8 Feb.			Test 1


6	Mon. 11 Feb.	Pipeline Review	HH Chapter 7; PH 4.5-4.8
	Wed. 13 Feb.	Branch Prediction	Agner Fog's microarchitecture guide (Read Section 3)	Due Homework 4: Multicycle Microcode
	Fri. 15 Feb.	Dynamic Branch Prediciton


7	Mon. 18 Feb.	Two-Level adapative branch prediction		Due Homework 5: Multicycle CPU Assign Homework 6: Branch Prediction > Assign Practice Test 2:


8	Mon. 25 Feb.	Test Review		Due Homework 6: Branch Prediction
	Wed. 27 Feb.	Guest Lecture		Due Practice Test 2: Due Homework 7: Two Level Adaptive Predictor
	Fri. 1 Mar.			Test 2


9	Mon. 11 Mar.	Intel Pipeline	Agner Fog Optimization manual pages 9-11, 71-86, and 149-158
	Wed. 13 Mar.	Tomasulo's algorithm
	Fri. 15 Mar.	More Intel Pipeline


10	Mon. 18 Mar.	Examine Intel Performance		Assign Presentaton Assign Extra Credit
	Wed. 20 Mar.	Energy
	Fri. 22 Mar.	I/O Cache Coherance		Assign Practice Test 3:


11	Mon. 25 Mar.	Vector Processing		Assign Homework 8: Vector Processing (AVX)
	Wed. 27 Mar.	Vector Processing
	Fri. 29 Mar.	Cache Coherence		Due Practice Test 3:


12	Mon. 1 Apr.	Cache Coherence		Test 3
	Wed. 3 Apr.	Cache Coherence		Due Presentation Proposal Due Homework 8: Vector Processing (AVX)
	Fri. 5 Apr.	Quantum Computing		Due Extra Credit


13	Mon. 8 Apr.	Quantum Computing		Assign Practice Final :
	Wed. 10 Apr.	Quantum Computing
	Fri. 12 Apr.	Review


14	Mon. 15 Apr.	Presentations		Due Presentaton
	Wed. 17 Apr.	Presentations
	Fri. 19 Apr.	Presentations		Due Practice Final :


15	Mon. 22 Apr.

Assignment List

Due	Name	Details
Wed. 9 Jan.	First Day Survey
Mon. 14 Jan.	Homework 1: Single Cycle Performance	(Problems 1 and 2 only)
Fri. 18 Jan.	Homework 2: Single Cycle Performance	(Problems 3 through 6)
Fri. 18 Jan.	Quiz 1: Architecture, Language, and Compiler History
Mon. 28 Jan.	Homework 3: Intel Machine Language
Mon. 28 Jan.	Practice Test 1:	(not due for credit)
Wed. 13 Feb.	Homework 4: Multicycle Microcode
Mon. 18 Feb.	Homework 5: Multicycle CPU
Mon. 25 Feb.	Homework 6: Branch Prediction	(only 1, 2, 4, and 5 due for credit.)
Wed. 27 Feb.	Practice Test 2:	(not due for credit)
Wed. 27 Feb.	Homework 7: Two Level Adaptive Predictor
Fri. 29 Mar.	Practice Test 3:	(not due for credit)
Wed. 3 Apr.	Presentation Proposal
Wed. 3 Apr.	Homework 8: Vector Processing (AVX)
Fri. 5 Apr.	Extra Credit
Mon. 15 Apr.	Presentaton
Fri. 19 Apr.	Practice Final :	(not due for credit)

Labs

Date	Name	Details

Updated Friday, 12 April 2019, 1:23 PM