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Week 1 – Jan 9 |
Review of 281/282, Computer Arithmetic; Architectural consideration in processor implementation; Instruction set design consideration; Putting data path together |
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Week 2 – Jan 16 |
Single cycle data path, Single cycle control issues; Multi-cycle implementation considerations; Computing performance |
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Week 3 – Jan 23 |
Multi-cycle data path implementation and Control |
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Week 4 – Jan 30 |
Pipeline implementation, hazards, and forwarding; |
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Week 5 – Feb 6 |
Review of pipelining; Introduction to superscalar
architecture; Exam 1 |
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Week 6 – Feb 13 |
Memory System Design and Caching |
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Week 7 – Feb 20 |
Memory system Bus Issue and Virtual memory |
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Week 8 – Feb 27 |
Memory mapped I/O |
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Week 9 – Mar 6 |
MIPS and PPC exception handling. |
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Mar 13 |
Spring Break |
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Week 10 – Mar 20 |
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Week 11 – Mar 27 |
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Week 12 – Apr 3 |
MPC555 interrupt handling details |
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Week 13 – Apr 10 |
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Week 14 – Apr 17 |
PIT programming; ADC, and test |
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Week 15 – Apr 24 |
Review and putting it all together |