Class Time: 1:30P.M. – 2:20P.M., M.W.F.
Class Location: 110 Avery Hall
Office hours: 2:30 P.M. – 3:30 P.M., M.W.F.
Instructor: Dr. Hong Jiang;
Office Location: 214 Schorr
Center,
472-6747; jiang@cse.unl.edu
Co-Instructor: Dr. Lei Tian (leitian.hust@gmail.com)
Office Location: 203 Schorr Center
Syllabus Course Schedule
Academic Integrity Policy Late Policy Important Resources
Useful Info
Project Teams Homework
Required
Textbook: John L. Hennessy and David A.
Patterson, Computer
Architecture -- A Quantitative Approach, 5th Edition, Morgan Kaufmann
Publications, Elsevier, Inc., 2012.
Useful Info: A very good source of information about the state of computer
architecture, plus many reference materials on oral and written communication
exist:
Late Policy: Late work is penalized 20% per day until
the following Friday.
Academic Integrity Policy: While collaboration on homework is
permitted, blatant copying will not be tolerated. Violators, if caught, will
subject to penalties ranging from a zero for the homework assignment in
question to an F grade for the course, depending on the severity of the
violation.
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The CSE-UNL Academic Integrity Policy
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8/20 |
Chapter 1 of text |
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8/22 |
Chapter 1 of text |
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8/24 |
Chapter 1 of text |
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Chapter 1 of text |
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8/29 |
Chapter 1 of text |
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8/31 |
Chapter 1 of text |
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9/5 |
Chapter 2 and Appendix B of the
Textbook |
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9/7 |
Chapter 2 and Appendix B of the
Textbook |
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9/10 |
Chapter 2 and Appendix B of the
Textbook |
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9/12 |
Chapter 2 and Appendix B of the
Textbook |
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9/14 |
Chapter 2 and Appendix B of the
Textbook |
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9/17 |
Chapter 2 and Appendix B of the
Textbook |
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9/19 |
Chapter 2 and Appendix B of the
Textbook |
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9/21 |
Chapter 2 and Appendix B of the
Textbook |
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9/24 |
Chapter 2 and Appendix B of the
Textbook |
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9/26 |
Chapter 2 and Appendix B of the
Textbook |
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9/28 |
Chapter 2 and Appendix B of the
Textbook |
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10/1 |
Chapter 3 and Appendix C of the
Textbook |
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10/3 |
Chapter 3 and Appendix C of the
Textbook |
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10/5 |
Appendix D (online) |
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10/8 |
Chapter 3 and Appendix C of the
Textbook |
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10/10 |
Chapter 3 and Appendix C of the
Textbook |
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10/12 |
Chapter 3 and Appendix C of the
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10/17 |
Chapter 3 and Appendix C of the
Textbook |
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10/19 |
Chapter 3 and Appendix C of the
Textbook |
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10/22 |
In-Class Exam I, covering
Chapters 1, 2, and Appendix C |
Open book and notes |
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10/24 |
Chapter 3 and Appendix C of the
Textbook |
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10/26 |
Chapter 3 and Appendix C of the
Textbook |
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10/29 |
Chapter 3 and Appendix C of the
Textbook |
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10/31 |
Chapter 3 and Appendix C of the
Textbook |
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11/2 |
Chapter 3 and Appendix C of the
Textbook |
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11/5 |
Chapter 3 and Appendix C of the
Textbook |
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11/7 |
Chapter 3 and Appendix C of the
Textbook |
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11/9 |
Chapter 3 and Appendix C of the
Textbook |
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11/12 |
Chapter 3 and Appendix C of the
Textbook |
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11/14 |
Presentation
by GARMIN representatives, Ted Mabie and Jessica Zlab, about GARMIN & its embedded systems software
development |
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11/16 |
Chapter 3 and Appendix C of the
Textbook |
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11/19 |
Data-Level Parallelism and Its Exploitation in Vector,
SIMD, and GPU Architectures
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Chapter 4 of the Textbook |
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11/26 |
Data-Level Parallelism and Its Exploitation in Vector,
SIMD, and GPU Architectures
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Chapter 4 of the Textbook |
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11/28 |
Data-Level Parallelism and Its Exploitation in Vector,
SIMD, and GPU Architectures
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Chapter 4 of the Textbook |
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12/3 |
Review of Chapters 3 & 4
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Chapters 3 & 4 of the
Textbook |
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12/5 |
Q & A Session
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12/7 |
Project Presentations (1:30pm—3:30pm)
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12/12 |
In-Class Exam II, covering Chapters 3 & 4 (1:00pm—2:00pm)
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Names of Team Members |
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1. Assignment #1: Due
Midnight, Wednesday, September 5, 2012
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2. Assignment #2: Due Midnight, Wednesday, September 26, 2012 |
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3. Assignment #3: Due Midnight, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 |
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4. Assignment #4: Due Midnight, Monday, November 26, 2012 |
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5. Assignment #5: Due Midnight, Wednesday, December 5, 2012 |