CMSC 411 Syllabus Fall 2020

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 CMSC 411 Computer Architecture Syllabus Fall 2020
 Class schedule, topic and assignments
  Online, you must read all web pages and follow instructions.
  Asynchronous, to scheduled online classes.
  Optional Reading assignments: from fourth or later edition of textbook.
  Homework and projects are due midnight on the date listed.
  No late penalty for this online course.

  webex instructor and students:
  https://umbc.webex.com/meet/squire                   corrected
  Tuesdays and Thursdays  1:00pm to 2:15pm
  Additional lecture information, questions asked and answered,
  basically online office hours.





Lec Date   Subject                            Reading          Homework
                                                               assigned due

 1.
    8/27   Introduction, terminology          1.1-1.5          HW1
 2. 
    9/1    Benchmarks                         1.7
 3. 
    9/3    Performance,                       1.4              HW2     HW1
 4. 
    9/8    CPU operation                      skim 2.1-2.11 read p78  
 5. 
    9/10   Instructions and registers         skim 2.1-2.11    HW3     HW2
                                              read p121
 6. 
    9/15   VHDL introduction                  VHDL web Pages
 7. 
    9/17   Arithmetic                         C.5-C.6          HW4     HW3
                                              VHDL WEB Pages
 8. 
    9/22   ALU                                3.1-3.2 
 9. 
    9/24   Multiply                           3.3              HW5 
 10. 
    9/29   Divide                             3.4
 11. 
    10/1   Floating Point                     3.5                      HW4*
 12. 
    10/6    VHDL - circuits and debugging      VHDL web pages   HW6     HW5 
 13. 
    10/8   Microprogramming - review          web pages
                                              study
 14. 
    10/13   mid-term exam  on web page for download                     midterm

 15. 
    10/15   Control Unit                       5.1-5.4 
 16. 
    10/20   Pipelining 1                       4.1-4.3                  HW6*
 17. 
    10/22   Pipelining 2                       4.5-4.6          HW7

 18. 
    10/27   Project outline and VHDL           VHDL web pages   proj1
 19. 
    10/29   Pipelining Data Forwarding         4.7              proj2a   HW7
 20. 
    11/3    Hazard and stalls                  4.7              HW8
                                                               proj2b
 21. 
    11/5   Cache                              5.1-5.2          HW9      Proj1*
 22. 
    11/10   Cache performance                  5.3              proj3a   HW8
 23. 
    11/12   Virtual memory 1                   5.4              HW10     HW9
                                                                        Proj2a*
 24. 
    11/17   Virtual memory 2                   web page         proj3b

 25. 
    11/19   I/O types and performance          6.3-6.7          HW11     HW10
                                                                        Proj2b*
 26. 
    11/24   DVR, DVD-RW, CDR, CD-RW            web page

Thanksgiving

 27.
    12/1    Busses, I/O-processor connection   6.5              HW12     HW11
                                                                        Proj3a*
 28. 
    12/3    Multiprocessors
                                                               study
 29. 
    12/8   Study Guide in lect 29
                                                               study


 30. 
    12/8   Final Exam  download and edit
          submit cs411 final final33?.doc                               final
                                                                        HW12
                                                                        Proj3b

Final exam and projects due 12/15/2020

    No late homework accepted after midnight 12/15/2020
    * submitted, not graded until next weekend (not late for a while)
    Projects are graded only once, do not do "submit" until finished.
    Check will be made for copying after midnight 12/20.
    Missing or copied projects get a zero.
CMSC 411 Computer Architecture Syllabus Fall 2020

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