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Additional Course Notes

This page is set up to provide you with the notes used in class and any additional reading material that is not provided by our book. (You should see in the syllabus where I've listed "additional reading".) Typically, the notes will not be available until two or three days before the class period in which they are needed. Please visit this page frequently to be sure not to miss any postings.

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Date Reading Topic Reference to Assigned Reading
Aug 29 Chapter 1 Intro to Computer Architecture
Aug 31 Sections 2.1 & 2.3 Functional View & Brief History
Sep 5 Section 2.2 Intro to Performance Issues
Sep 7 Sections 3.1 - 3.3 Single Processor Architecture
Sep 12 & 14 Chapter 4 Memory Caches
Sep 19 Sections 5.1 & 5.3 Memory Details
Sep 21 Section 5.2 Error detection and correction in memory
(Additional resources may be found in
section 9.6 of the 2150 text.)
Sep 26 Chapter 6 Storage Media -- Note that there is some material on magnetic encoding in the PowerPoint lecture that is not found in the book. You will be responsible for this material.
Oct 10 & 12 Chapter 7 Input/Output
Oct 19 Sections 3.4, 3.5, and 7.7 Buses
Oct 24 Sections 8.3 and 8.4 Memory Management
Nov 9 Sections 10.3, 10.4, 12.1, and 12.2 CPU Registers
Nov 14 Sections 12.3 and 12.4 CPU Pipelines
Nov 16 Sections 13.1 to 13.5 RISC
Nov 21 Sections 14.1 & 14.2 Instruction-Level Parallelism
Nov 28 Sections 18.1 - 18.4 Symmetric Multiprocessors & Clusters

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