ECE 3055b Spring 2005 Schedule

C. = Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware and Software Interface, Hennessey and Patterson (3rd ed.)
A. = Applied Operating System Concepts, A. Silberschatz, P. Galvin, and G. Gagne

Reading Assignments shown in red have not been updated to the latest editions of the two textbooks.  PowerPoint files are in 3055/ppt/, PDF in 3055/pdf/

Date	Day	Topic	Reading	Lecture Slides	Lab Notes
1/10	Mon.	Introduction	A. Chap. 1	lec_01_notes.pdf
1/12	Wed.	Instruction Sets, CISC vs. RISC	C. Chap. 2: 2.1-2.9, 2.19	lec_02_notes.pdf
1/14	Fri.	Addressing Modes, MIPS Instruction Set	C. Chap. 5: 5.1-5.6	lec_03_notes.pdf
1/17	Mon.	MLK HOLIDAY
1/19	Wed.	MIPS Data Path Review
1/21	Fri.	VHDL Review	C. Chap. 5: 5.5 - 5.8	lec_03a_notes.pdf	Read C. Appendix A (CDROM)
1/24	Mon.	Pipeline Basics, MIPS Pipe Line	C. Chap. 6 Appendix. A,B,C (on CDROM)	lec_04_notes.pdf
1/26	Wed.	MIPS Pipeline and Control	ditto	ditto
1/28	Fri.	Data Hazards, Stalls	ditto	lec_05_notes.pdf	Lab-1 Due
1/31	Mon.	Branching, Data Forwarding	ditto	ditto
2/02	Wed.	VHDL - MIPS Model	ditto	MIPS_vhdl_notes.pdf
2/04	Fri.	VHDL - Pipelining	ditto	MIPS_vhdl_last.pdf
2/07	Mon.	Memory Hiierarchy	C. Chap. 7	lec_06_notes.pdf	Lab-2.2 Due Tues. 2/8
2/09	Wed.	Memory Hierarchy	ditto	ditto
2/11	Fri.	Caches - direct mapped, wide	ditto	ditto
2/14	Mon.	Review for Quiz 1		ditto
2/16	Wed.	QUIZ 1		ditto	Lab-2.1 Due Thurs. 2/17
2/18	Fri.	Caches - set associative, replacement policies, replacement policies	ditto	ditto
2/21	Mon.	Virtual Memory Basics,Address translation mechanism and TLB	ditto	ditto
2/23	Wed.	Memory Mgmt	A. Chap. 9	ch9-mem-mgmt.pdf
2/25	Fri.	Virtual Memory	A. Chap. 10	ch10_virt_mem.pdf
2/28	Mon.	Page Replacement Policies	ditto		Lab-3.1 Due 3
3/02	Wed.	File Systems	A. Chap. 11	ch11_file_sys.pdf
3/04	Fri.	part 2	ditto
3/07	Mon.	Mass Storage	A. Chap. 12	ch12_mass_store.pdf	Lab-3.2 Due 3/8
3/09	Wed.	I/O Basics, Devices, Buses	A. Chap. 13	ch13_i-o.pdf
3/11	Fri.	OS Intro	A. Chap. 13 - 1	ch01_intro.pdf
3/14	Mon.	OS Intro	A. Chap 1
3/16	Wed.	OS Basics	A. Chap 2	ch02_computer_struct.pdf
3/18	Fri.	OS Basics	ditto
3/21	Mon.	SPRING BREAK
3/23	Wed	SPRING BREAK
3/25	Fri.	SPRING BREAK
3/28	Mon.	OS Structures	A. Chap. 3	ch03_os_struct.pdf
3/30	Wed.	OS Structures	ditto
4/01	Fri.	Processes	A. Chap. 4	ch04_processes.pdf
4/04	Mon.	Thread	A. Chap. 5	ch05_threads.pdf
4/06	Wed.	Threads			Lab-4.1, 4.2, 4.3 Due Thur. 4/7
4/08	Fri.	Quiz 2 Review
4/11	Mon.	Quiz 2
4/13	Wed.	CPU Scheduling	A. Chap. 6	ch06-scheduling.pdf
4/15	Fri.	Scheduling Algorithms
4/18	Mon.	Algorithm Evaluation
4/20	Wed.	Synchronization, and Primatives	A. Chap. 7	ch07-sync-a.ppt
4/22	Fri.	Semaphores, Monitors, Deadlock		ch07-sync-b.ppt
4/25	Mon.	Deadlock Concept, Characterization and Handling	A. Chap. 8	ch07-sync-c.ppt
4/27	Wed.	Deadlock Prevention, Detection and Recovery		ch08-dead_locks.ppt
4/29	Fri.	Case Studies	A. Chap. 20, 21, 22
5/03	Tue.	Final Exam,  11:30 - 2:20

Last Updated on 3/9/05
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