Northern Illinois University

Your Future, Our Focus

Dr. Timothy Johnson

ELE 655 - Fall 2015

Course Schedule and Notes

ELE 655 Schedule and Class Notes
Class Date	Chapter	Topics	Resources
8/25				N/A		Introduction
8/27	Ch 1	Fundamentals	Historical Perspective
9/1	App A	Instruction Set Principles	ISA Fundamentals
9/3	455 summary notes	Cache Fundamentals	455 Cache Summary
9/8	App B	Basic Cache Optimizations	Evolution of Memory Hierarchy Associativity Hierarchy Replacement Power
9/10	Ch 2	Advanced Cache Optimizations
9/15	Ch 2	Cache Summary	Cache Summary
9/17	N/A	Pipeline Review	Class notes
9/22		ILP	Class notes
9/24		Dynamic Scheduling	Class notes
9/29
10/1		Speculation	Class notes
10/6		Multiple Issue	Class notes
10/8		VLIW	Class notes
10/13		SIMD	Class notes
10/15
10/20		GPU	Class notes
10/22		GPU	Lab work
10/27		GPU	Lab work
10/29		TLP Intro	Class notes
11/3		AXI Intro	Class notes AXI specification
11/5		AXI Cache Coherency	Class notes
11/10		Project	Lab work
11/12		Project	Lab work
11/17		Project	Lab work
11/19		Project	Lab work
11/24		Project	Lab work
11/26		Project	Lab work
12/1		Project	Lab work
12/3		Project	Lab work
TBD - Scheduled Final Time/Date