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| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/4: | 9/5: | 9/6: First day of classes | 9/7: L1 - Course Mechanics and Digital Abstraction Bash and lab setup tutorial (7-8pm) | 9/8: R1 |
| 9/11: Bash and lab setup tutorial (7-8pm) | 9/12: L2 - Combinational Devices and Boolean Algebra | 9/13: R2 | 9/14: L3 - Combinational Design and Intro to Minispec Lab 1 (Combinational) out | 9/15: R3 |
| 9/18: | 9/19: L4 - Advanced Minispec and Combinational Design Tradeoffs Lab 2 (ALU) out | 9/20: R4 | 9/21: L5 - CMOS Lab 1 due | 9/22: Holiday |
| 9/25: | 9/26: L6 - Sequential Circuits and Finite State Machines | 9/27: R5 Lab 1 checkoff due | 9/28: L7 - Implementing Sequential Circuits in Minispec Lab 2 due Lab 3 (Sequential Circuits) out | 9/29: R6 |
| 10/2: | 10/3: L8 - Arithmetic Pipelines Quiz 1 Review: 7:30-9:30 PM | 10/4: R7 Lab 2 checkoff due | 10/5: L9 - Design Tradeoffs Quiz 1: 7:30-9:30 PM | 10/6: R8 Last day to opt out of recitations |
| 10/9: Holiday | 10/10: Holiday | 10/11: R9 | 10/12: L10 - Compilers and RISC-V Assembly Lab 3 due | 10/13: R10 |
| 10/16: | 10/17: L11 - Single Cycle Processor Lab 4 (Processor Implementation) out | 10/18: R11 Lab 3 checkoff due | 10/19: L12 - Memory Hierarchy | 10/20: R12 |
| 10/23: | 10/24: L13 - Caches Lab 5 (Caches) out | 10/25: R13 | 10/26: L14 - Pipelined Processors 1 Lab 4 due Lab 6 (Pipelined Processor) out | 10/27: R14 |
| 10/30: | 10/31: L15 - Pipelined Processors 2 | 11/1: R15 Lab 4 checkoff due | 11/2: L16 - OS Lab 5 due Lab 7 (Operating Systems) out | 11/3: R16 |
| 11/6: | 11/7: L17 - Virtual Memory 1 Quiz 2 Review: 7:30-9:30 PM | 11/8: R17 Lab 5 checkoff due | 11/9: L18 - Virtual Memory 2 Quiz 2: 7:30-9:30 PM | 11/10: Holiday |
| 11/13: | 11/14: L19 - Exceptions, I/O | 11/15: R18 | 11/16: L20 - Parallel Processing Lab 6 due Design project out | 11/17: R19 |
| 11/20: | 11/21: No class | 11/22: R20 Lab 6 checkoff due Drop Date | 11/23: Thanksgiving | 11/24: Thanksgiving |
| 11/27: | 11/28: L21 - Synchronization | 11/29: R21 | 11/30: L22 - Cache Coherence Lab 7 due | 12/1: R22 |
| 12/4: | 12/5: L23 - Modern Processor Architecture Quiz 3 Review: 7:30-9:30 PM | 12/6: No class Lab 7 checkoff due | 12/7: No class Quiz 3: 7:30-9:30 PM | 12/8: No class |
| 12/11: No class | 12/12: No class | 12/13: No class Last day of classes Design Project due Labs 1-7 must be checked off | 12/14: | 12/15: |