Date	Day	Lecture	Topics	Labs
3/27/18	Tue	1	Intro
3/29/18	Thu	2	ISA; Readings: P&H Chapter 2; Appendix D (optional)
3/29/18	Thu	lab		Lab 0 and 1 out
4/3/18	Tue	3	Introduction to Microarchitecture  (Single-cycle processor); Readings: P&H 4.1-4.4; Appendix A
4/5/18	Thu	4	Pipelining Basics; Readings: P&H 4.5-4.6
4/5/18	Thu	lab
4/10/18	Tue	5	Pipelining Discussions, Data Dependency Handling; Readings: P&H 4.7
4/12/18	Thu	6	Control Dependency, Branch Prediction
4/12/18	Thu	lab		Lab 2 out; Lab 1 due
4/17/18	Tue	7	Branch prediction II; Readings: P&H 4.8; [McFarling DEC WRL TR 93] (optional)
4/19/18	Thu	8	OOO: Motivation, Basic Idea, Tomasulo's Algorithm; Readings: P&H 4.10
4/19/18	Thu	lab
4/24/18	Tue	9	OOO: Reorder buffer, Memory Disambiguation, Discussions
4/26/18	Thu	Exam 1
4/26/18	Thu	lab
4/27/18	Fri			Lab 3 out; Lab 2 due
5/1/18	Tue	10	Vector Processor, VLIW, Memory Hierarchy, and Cache Basics; Readings: P&H 6.3, 5.1-5.3
5/3/18	Thu	11	Caches, advanced topics
5/3/18	Thu	lab
5/8/18	Tue	12	More Caches; Readings: P&H 5.1-5.4
5/10/18	Thu	13	Main Memory, DRAM
5/10/18	Thu	lab
5/15/18	Tue	14	Virtual Memory	Lab 4 out; Lab 3 due
5/17/18	Thu	15	Multi-Core I; Readings: P&H 6.1, 6.2, 6.5, 6.7
5/17/18	Thu	lab
5/22/18	Tue	16	Memory consistency, synchronization
5/24/18	Thu	17	Interconnection Networks
5/24/18	Thu	lab
5/25/18	Fri			Lab 4 due
5/29/18	Tue	Exam 2