Lecture Schedule

Lecture weeks	Lecture Content	Slides	Reading	Additional material and HW
30/07 - 01/08	Course logistics and Motivation	Course Handout   Slides(FCH)	H & P: Ch1 (till 1.7)    P & H: Ch1 (till 1.3)	Turing Award Lecture
03/08 - 08/08	ISA, Performance, Microarchitecture	Slides: s1	H & P (Appendix A), P & H (Ch 2)    H & P: Ch1 (1.8-1.12)	ISA Wars, Blem et al.    os-privisa    x86priv
10/08 - 15/08	Tools: Tracing and Simulation, Simple micro-arch	Slides: s1   Slides: s2   Manuals: gem5   Pin Manual	H & P (Appendix A), P & H (Ch 4.1-4.4)	Pin Examples   Champsim    Pintool
17/08 - 22/08	ILP: Inorder pipeline, issues, motivation	Slides: s1   Slides: s2	H & P (Appendix A), Ch3, P & H (Ch 4)	Run a SE mode simulation with different types of CPUs. Example config script: config
17/08 - 22/08	ILP: OoO techniques	Slides: s1   s2   Project Topics	H & P (Appendix A), Ch3	Study the Load/Store functionality in the Gem5 Inorder CPU
31/08 - 05/09	ILP: Speculation, Superscalar	Slides: s1	H & P Ch3	Study the functionality in the Gem5 OoO CPU
07/09 - 12/09	Exceptions, Introduction to MLP	s1	P & H (Ch5)   H & P (Appendix B, Ch2)	Study the Page fault exception path in Gem5