August 27	Introduction and review of Chapters 1 and 2
August 29	Review of processor design ( Chapters 4.1-4.4) and Intro to Pipelining ( lecture slides )	Homework 1 and solutions
September 3	Pipelining and its hazards ( lecture slides )
September 5	Dealing with data hazards ( lecture slides )
September 10	Dealing with control hazards ( lecture slides )	Homework 2 and solutions
September 12	Branch Prediction and exception handling ( lecture slides )
September 17	Multiple issue pipelines ( lecture slides )
September 19	Review for the exam ( last term's exam and its solutions )	Project 1
September 24	Exam 1
September 26	Memory technology and the concept of caching ( 55 minutes video and slides )	class work and quiz
October 1	Direct mapped caches ( 41 minutes video , slides and examples )	class work and quiz
October 3	Set associative caches and cache performance ( 40 minutes video , slides and examples )	class work and quiz
October 8	Software optimizations and memory reliability ( 52 minutes video and slides )	class work and quiz
October 10	Multiprocessor cache coherence ( 46 minutes video and slides )	class work and quiz
October 15	Virtual memory ( 40 minutes video and slides )	class work and quiz
October 17	Virtual memory ( 49 minutes video and slides )	class work and quiz
October 22	Review for the exam ( last term's exam and its solutions )
October 24	Exam 2	Project 2
October 29	Chapter 6: Introduction to parallel processing ( lecture slides )
October 31	MIMD, SIMD and SMT architectures ( lecture slides )
November 5	Programming shared memory systems ( lecture slides )
November 7	Programming shared memory systems
November 12	Network connected systems ( slides ) and Intro to GPUs ( slides )	Homework 3 and solutions
November 14	GPU architecture and programming ( slides )
November 19	GPU architecture and programming
November 21	GPU architecture and programming	Homework 4
November 26	No class (Thanksgiving)
November 28	No class (Thanksgiving)
December 3	Last GPU slides and review ( sample questions, classwork and solution to homework 4)
December 5	Exam 3