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| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/2: | 9/3: | 9/4: First day of classes | 9/5: L1 - Course Mechanics and Digital Abstraction Bash and lab setup tutorial (7-8pm) | |
| 9/8: | 9/9: Bash and lab setup tutorial (7-8pm) | 9/10: L2 - Combinational Devices and Boolean Algebra | 9/11: R2 | 9/12: L3 - Combinational Design and Intro to Minispec Lab 1 (Combinational) out |
| 9/15: | 9/16: | 9/17: L4 - Advanced Minispec and Combinational Design Tradeoffs | 9/18: R4 | 9/19: L5 - CMOS Lab 1 due Lab 2 (ALU) out |
| 9/22: | 9/23: | 9/24: L6 - Sequential Circuits and Finite State Machines | 9/25: R5 Lab 1 checkoff due | 9/26: L7 - Implementing Sequential Circuits in Minispec Lab 2 due Lab 3 (Sequential Circuits) out |
| 9/29: | 9/30: Quiz 1 Review: 7:30-9:30 PM | 10/1: L8 - Arithmetic Pipelines Quiz 1: 7:30-9:30 PM | 10/2: R7 Lab 2 checkoff due | 10/3: L9 - Design Tradeoffs |
| 10/6: | 10/7: | 10/8: L10 - Compilers and RISC-V Assembly | 10/9: R9 | 10/10: L11 - Single Cycle Processor Lab 3 due Lab 4 (Processor Implementation) out |
| 10/13: | 10/14: Holiday | 10/15: Student Holiday | 10/16: R11 Lab 3 checkoff due | 10/17: L12 - Memory Hierarchy Lab 4 due |
| 10/20: | 10/21: | 10/22: L13 - Caches Lab 5 (Caches) out | 10/23: R13 Lab 4 checkoff due | 10/24: L14 - Pipelined Processors 1 |
| 10/27: | 10/28: | 10/29: L15 - Pipelined Processors 2 Lab 6 (Pipelined Processor) out | 10/30: R15 | 10/31: L16 - OS Lab 5 due |
| 11/3: | 11/4: | 11/5: L17 - Virtual Memory 1 Quiz 2 Review: 7:30-9:30 PM | 11/6: R17 Lab 5 checkoff due | 11/7: L18 - Virtual Memory 2 Quiz 2: 7:30-9:30 PM |
| 11/10: | 11/11: Holiday | 11/12: L19 - Exceptions, I/O Lab 7 (Operating Systems) out | 11/13: R19 | 11/14: L20 - Synchronization Lab 6 due |
| 11/17: | 11/18: | 11/19: Guest Lecture from Apple (2:30-4pm in 4-270) L21 - Cache Coherence Design project out | 11/20: R21 Lab 6 checkoff due Drop Date | 11/21: L22 - Parallel Processing Lab 7 due |
| 11/24: | 11/25: | 11/26: No Class | 11/27: No Class Lab 7 checkoff due | 11/28: Thanksgiving Break |
| 12/1: | 12/2: | 12/3: L23 - Modern Processor Architecture Quiz 3 Review: 7:30-9:30 PM | 12/4: No Class | 12/5: No Class Quiz 3: 7:30-9:30 PM |
| 12/8: | 12/9: | 12/10: No Class | 12/11: No Class Last day of classes Design Project due Labs 1-7 must be checked off | 12/12: |