ECE 3055a Spring 2000 Schedule

C. = Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware and Software Interface, Hennessey and Patterson
A. = Applied Operating System Concepts, A. Silberschatz, P. Galvin, and G. Gagne
R. = Rapid Prototyping of Digital Design, Hamblen & Furman

Grade Weighting:  HW 10%,   Lab 20%,  Quiz-1 20%,   Quiz-2 20%,   Final  30%

Date	Day	Topic	Reading	Lecture Slides	Lab Notes
1/07	Fri.	Introduction	A. Chap. 1
1/10	Mon.	Instruction Sets, CISC vs. RISC	C. Chap. 3,	lec_02_notes.pdf
1/12	Wed.	Addressing Modes, MIPS Instruction Set	C. Chap. 5	lec_03_notes.pdf
1/14	Fri.	MIPS Data Path Review
1/17	Mon.	MLK HOLIDAY
1/19	Wed.	VHDL Review	C. " Sec. 5.5 - 5.11	cod_sec5_5.pdf	Th: Lab-1 due
1/21	Fri.	Pipeline Basics, MIPS Pipe Line	C. Chap. 6 Appendix. A,B,C	lec_04_notes.pdf	R. Chap. 13
1/24	Mon.	MIPS Pipeline and Control	ditto	ditto
1/26	Wed.	Data Hazards	ditto	ditto
1/28	Fri.	Forwording and Control	ditto	ditto
1/31	Mon.	Forwording and Control	ditto	lec_05_notes.pdf
2/02	Wed.	Branch Prediction, Hazards	ditto	ditto
2/04	Fri.	Case Studies	ditto	ditto
2/07	Mon.	Memory Hierarchy	C. Chap. 7	lec_06_notes.pdf	Tu: HW-1 due
2/09	Wed.	Caches - direct mapped, wide	ditto	ditto	Th: Lab-2 due
2/11	Fri.	Review for Quiz 1		ditto
2/14	Mon.	QUIZ 1		ditto
2/16	Wed.	Caches - set associative, replacement policies, replacement policies	ditto	ditto	Th: Lab-2 late due
2/18	Fri.	Virtual Memory Basics,Address translation mechanism and TLB	ditto	ditto
2/21	Mon.	Memory Mgmt	A. Chap. 9	ch9-mem-mgmt.pdf
2/23	Wed.	Virtual Memory	A. Chap. 10	ch10_virt_mem.ppt
2/25	Fri.	Page Replacement Policies	ditto
2/28	Mon.	File Systems	A. Chap. 11	ch11_file_sys.pdf
3/01	Wed.	part 2	ditto		Th. Lab-3 due
3/03	Fri.	I/O Basics, Devices, Busses	A. Chap. 12	ch12_i-o.pdf
3/06	Mon.	SPRING BREAK
3/08	Wed.	SPRING BREAK
3/10	Fri.	SPRING BREAK
3/13	Mon.	Mass Storage	A. Chap. 13	ch13_mass_store_slides.pdf
3/15	Wed.	Mass Storage - OS Intro	A. Chap. 13 - 1	ch01_intro_notes.pdf
3/17	Fri.	OS Intro	A. Chap 1
3/20	Mon.	OS Basics	A. Chap 2	ch02_computer_struct_notes.pdf
3/22	Wed.	OS Structures	A. Chap. 3	ch03_os_struct_notes.pdf
3/24	Fri.	Process Basics	A. Chap. 4
3/27	Mon.	Process Basics		ch04_processes_notes.pdf
3/29	Wed.	Threads	A. Chap. 5		Th. Lab-4 due
3/31	Fri.	Threads
4/03	Mon.	Threads
4/05	Wed.	Quiz 2 Review		Quiz-2 Review (notes, slides)
4/07	Fri.	Quiz 2
4/10	Mon.	CPU Scheduling Basics	A. Chap. 6	ch06-scheduling_notes.pdf
4/12	Wed.	Scheduling Algorithms			Th. Lab-5 Due
4/14	Fri.	Algorithm Evaluation
4/17	Mon.	Synchronization, and Primatives	A. Chap. 7
4/19	Wed.	Semaphores, Monitors, Deadlock
4/21	Fri.	Deadlock Concept, Characterization and Handling	A. Chap. 8
4/24	Mon.	Deadlock Prevention, Detection and Recovery
4/26	Wed.	Case Studies: Linux and MS NT	A. Chap. 20, 21, 22
4/28	Fri.	Review for Final Exam

Last Updated on 1/18/00
By John Copeland
Email: john.copeland@ece.gatech.edu