| Wk | Lect. | Date | Lecture | Slides | Due | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1/12 | W | Intro/Overview | ppt pdf | ||
| 2 | 1/18 | M | No Class | MLK Holiday | |||
| 2 | 1/20 | W | Universality, Gates, and Logic | ppt pdf | read | ||
| 3 | 3 | 1/25 | M | Arithmetic | ppt pdf |
HW1 |
read |
| 4 | 1/27 | W | Sequential Logic | ppt pdf | read | ||
| 4 | 5 | 2/1 | M | Memory | ppt pdf | HW2 | read |
| 6 | 2/3 | W | ALUs, Area/Time Tradeoffs, Virtualization... | ppt pdf | |||
| 5 | 7 | 2/8 | M | Costs and Change, MOS Scaling | ppt pdf | HW3 | read |
| 2/10 | W | snow cancels Penn classes | |||||
| 6 | 8 | 2/15 | M | Energy, Power, and Reliability | ppt pdf | snow slip | read |
| 9 | 2/17 | W | Interconnect | ppt pdf | HW4 | ||
| 7 | 2/22 | M | No Class | FPGA | |||
| 10 | 2/24 | W | Instructions | ppt pdf | read | ||
| 8 | 11 | 3/1 | M | Instruction Space Modeling | ppt pdf | read | |
| 12 | 3/3 | W | Defect and Fault Tolerance | ppt pdf | read | ||
| 3/5 | F | HW5 | |||||
| 3/8--12 | Spring Break | ||||||
| 9 | 13 | 3/15 | M | Empirical Cost Comparisons | ppt pdf | read | |
| 14 | 3/17 | W | Compute 1: LUTs | ppt pdf | read | ||
| 10 | 15 | 3/22 | M | Compute 2: ALUs and PLAs | ppt pdf | HW6 | read |
| 16 | 3/24 | W | Component-Specific Mapping and Differential Reliability | ppt pdf | read | ||
| 11 | 17 | 3/29 | M | Interconnect 2: requirements and implications | ppt pdf | HW7 | read |
| 18 | 3/31 | W | Interconnect 3: Richnesss (fixed wire schedule) | ppt pdf | read | ||
| 12 | 19 | 4/5 | M | Interconnect 4: switching requirements | ppt pdf | read | |
| 20 | 4/7 | W | Interconnect 5: mesh and MoT | ppt pdf | read | ||
| 13 | 21 | 4/12 | M | Retiming | ppt pdf | HW8 | read |
| 22 | 4/14 | W | Time Multiplexing | ppt pdf | read | ||
| 14 | 23 | 4/19 | M | Control | ppt pdf | read | |
| 24 | 4/21 | W | Interconnect 6: Dynamically Switched Interconnect | ppt pdf | read | ||
| 15 | 25 | 4/26 | M | Specialization | ppt pdf | read | |
| 5/10 | M | Finals |
Final Exercise |
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This working calendar is on the web: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~ese534/spring2010.html.
Please, recheck the page on the web as details may be adjusted as the
term progresses. Lectures notes, reading, and handouts will be filled as
we reach them.