EECS 370

Exam Info

Exam Details

Tuesday, March 11th at 7 PM - 9 PM

Practice Exams

Problems and Solutions
Exam Walkthroughs

Exam Review

Friday, February 28th at 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Monday, March 10th at 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM in BBB 1690

Exam Details

Monday, April 28th at 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Exam Review

TBD

Course Resources

Schedule

Apr 6 – 12, 2025

Day	Lecture Topic	Lab Topic	Deadline	Patterson & Hennessey ARM 5th Readings
Week 1 Wed Jan 8	Classes Begin
Thu Jan 9	1. Introduction			Sections 1.1 - 1.4, 1.7
Fri Jan 10		1. Binary & C
Mon Jan 13
Tue Jan 14	2. ISA and Binary			Sections 2.2 - 2.6, 3.2, 3.3
Week 2 Wed Jan 15
Thu Jan 16	3. LC2K			Sections 2.2 - 2.5
Fri Jan 17		Computer Setup
Mon Jan 20		No Lab (MLK)
Tue Jan 21	4. ARM			Sections 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.6
Week 3 Wed Jan 22
Thu Jan 23	5. Converting C to Assembly			Sections 2.2, 2.3, 2.6, 2.7
Fri Jan 24		2. Project 1 - LC2K ISA
Mon Jan 27
Tue Jan 28	6. Function Calls in Assembly			Sections 2.8, 2.13
Week 4 Wed 29
Thu Jan 30	7. Linking & Floating Point		P1a	Sections 2.12, 3.2, 3.3, 3.5
Fri Jan 31		3. ARM Assembly
Mon Feb 3			HW 1
Tue Feb 4	8. Combinational Logic Design			Sections A.1 - A.3, A.5, C.2
Week 5 Wed Feb 5
Thu Feb 6	9. Sequential Logic Design		P1s + P1m	Sections A.7 - A.9, A.11
Fri Feb 7		4. Project 2 - Functions & Linking
Mon Feb 10
Tue Feb 11	10. FSM & Single-Cycle Processor Design			Sections A.10, C.3, 4.1 - 4.4
Week 6 Wed Feb 12
Thu Feb 13	11. Multi-Cycle Processor Design			Sections 4.1 - 4.4
Fri Feb 14		5. Digital Logic
Mon Feb 17
Tue Feb 18	12. Pipelined Processors			Sections 4.5 - 4.6
Week 7 Wed Feb 19
Thu Feb 20	13. Data Hazards		P2a	Section 4.7
Fri Feb 21		6. Single- & Multi-Cycle Datapaths
Mon Feb 24			HW 2
Tue Feb 25	14. Data Hazards II			Section 4.7
Week 8 Wed Feb 26
Thu Feb 27	Midterm Review
Fri Feb 28		No Lab (Break)
Mon Mar 3
Tue Mar 4	No Lecture (Break)
Week 9 Wed Mar 5
Thu Mar 6	No Lecture (Break)
Fri Mar 7
Mon Mar 10
Tue Mar 11	Midterm Exam (7pm to 9pm)
Week 10 Wed Mar 12
Thu Mar 13	15. Control Hazards & Branch Prediction			Sections 4.8, 4.9
Fri Mar 14		7. Advanced Assembly
Mon Mar 17
Tue Mar 18	16. Introduction to Caches			Sections 5.1 - 5.3
Week 11 Wed Mar 19
Thu Mar 20	17. Cache Blocks and Write Policies		P2l + P2r	Section 5.3
Fri Mar 21		8. Project 3 - Pipelining
Mon Mar 24			HW 3
Tue Mar 25	18. Direct-Mapped Caches			Sections 5.4, 5.8
Week 12 Wed Mar 26
Thu Mar 27	19. Set-Associative Caches		P3 Checkpoint	Sections 5.4, 5.8
Fri Mar 28		9. Datapath Performance
Mon Mar 31
Tue Apr 1	20. Classifying Cache Misses			Sections 5.4, 5.5
Week 13 Wed Apr 2
Thu Apr 3	21. Virtual Memory		P3	Section 5.7
Fri Apr 4		10. Project 4 - Caches
Mon Apr 7
Tue Apr 8	Extra Lecture
Week 14 Wed Apr 9
Thu Apr 10	22. Multi-Level Page Tables			Section 5.7
Fri Apr 11		11. Cache-Aware Programming
Mon Apr 14
Tue Apr 15	23. Speeding up Virtual Memory			Section 5.7
Week 15 Wed Apr 16
Thu Apr 17			P4
Fri Apr 18		12. Cache and Virtual Memory Performance
Mon Apr 21			HW 4
Tue Apr 22	Exam Review
Week 16 Wed Apr 23
Thu Apr 24
Fri Apr 25
Mon Apr 28	Final Exam (10:30am to 12:30pm)

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