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