| Monday | Wednesday | Friday | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | 31 August Introduction Lecture 1 Notes |
2 September Performance Lecture 2 Notes Reading: Performance -- P&H 2007 Chapter 4 or P&H RISC-V Chapter 1 |
4 September Using perf Lecture 3 Notes Reading: Perf Zine |
| Week 2 | 7 September Labor Day |
9 September Simple Microprocessor Background Lecture 4 Notes Reading: CPUs -- P&H 2007 Chapter 2 or P&H RISC-V Chapter 2 |
11 September Pipelined Processors Lecture 5 Notes Reading: Pipelines and Super-Scalar -- P&H 2007 Chapter 6 or P&H RISC-V Chapter 4 |
| Week 3 | 14 September Parallel Pipelines: Super-Scalar, OoO Lecture 6 Notes Reading: P&H RISCV Chapter 4.11 |
16 September Pipeline Examples, Multicore, Multithread Lecture 7 Notes Reading: P&H RISCV Chapter 4.11 |
18 September Pipeline Examples, Power and Energy Lecture 8 Notes Reading: H&P Chapter 1.5 |
| Week 4 | 21 September Power and Energy Measurement Lecture 9 Notes |
23 September Static Branch Predictors Lecture 10 Notes Reading: H&P Chapter 3.3 |
25 September Dynamic Branch Predictors Lecture 11 Notes |
| Week 5 | 28 September Branch Predictor Power, Caches Lecture 12 Notes Reading: H&P Chapter 2.1, Appendix B |
30 September HW3 Review, More Caches Lecture 13 Notes Reading: H&P Chapter 2.1, Appendix B |
2 October Even More Caches Lecture 14 Notes |
| Week 6 | 5 October Oh No More Caches Lecture 15 Notes |
7 October Cache Wrapup Lecture 16 Notes |
9 October Prefetchers Lecture 17 Notes |
| Week 7 | 12 October Indigenous Peoples Day |
14 October Virtual Memory Background Lecture 18 Notes |
16 October Virtual Memory Lecture 19 Notes |
| Week 8 | 19 October Virtual Memory and Caches Lecture 20 Notes |
21 October Cache Security/Meltdown/Spectre Lecture 21 Notes |
23 October CPU Energy Lecture 22 Notes |
| Week 9 | 26 October DRAM Lecture 23 Notes |
28 October DRAM continued / Midterm Review Lecture 24 Notes |
30 October Midterm Exam |
| Week 10 | 2 November Modern DRAM/HBM/NVRAM Lecture 25 Notes |
4 November DRAM Power/Security Concerns Lecture 26 Notes |
6 November DRAM, System RAPL papers Lecture 27 Notes |
| Week 11 | 9 November System Component Power Lecture 28 Notes |
11 November Veterans Day |
13 November OS Power / AMD Zen2 Paper Lecture 29 Notes |
| Week 12 | 16 November Hard Disks Lecture 30 Notes |
18 November SSD Lecture 31 Notes |
20 November ARM / Intel CPU Papers Lecture 32 Notes |
| Week 13 | 23 November Virtualization Lecture 33 Notes |
25 November Thanksgiving -- Beginning of online instruction |
27 November Thanksgiving |
| Week 14 | 30 November GPU Background Lecture 34 Notes |
2 December GPUs Lecture 35 Notes |
4 December GPU Readings Lecture 36 Notes |
| Week 15 | 7 December PCIe Lecture 37 Notes |
9 December Project Presentations |
11 December Project Presentations |