CSE 240A: Principles of Computer Architecture (Fall 2018)

Office hours: 9:00 - 10:00 AM, Wed, CSE B270A; 8:00 - 9:00 AM, Thurs, CSE B250A;

Office hours: 7:00 - 8:00 PM, Tues, CSE B250A; 7:00 - 8:00 PM, Thurs, CSE B260A;

Schedule

	Date	Topic	Reading Assignment	Critique Due Date
1	10/01/2018	Dark Silicon	Progress Hits Snag: Tiny Chips Use Outsize Power (recommended) Power Challenges May End the Multicore Era (required)	10/10/2018 by 5:00 pm PST
2	10/03/2018		Looking Back on the Language and Hardware Revolutions: Measured Power, Performance, and Scaling Validity of the single processor approach to achieving large scale computing capabilities	No critique required
3	10/08/2018		Scaling to the End of Silicon with EDGE Architectures	No critique required
4	10/10/2018
5	10/15/2018
6	10/17/2018
7	10/22/2018	Micro
8	10/24/2018
9	10/29/2018
10	10/31/2018		A Characterization of Processor Performance in the VAX-11/780	No critique required
11	11/05/2018
12	11/07/2018
13	11/12/2018
14	11/14/2018	MIDTERM
15	11/19/2018
16	11/21/2018
17	11/26/2018
18	11/28/2018
19	12/03/2018
20	12/05/2018
21	12/10/2018
22	12/12/2018