Each week, you can expect roughly the same rhythm of assignment due dates. Some weeks
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| Week | Date | Assignments (Labs, Preflights, and GROUP) |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | [1/24-1/30] | Lab 1 Boolean Logic and Verilog Monday - 01 Boolean Functions, Gates, and Truth Tables Wednesday - 02 Combinational Logic Design |
| Week 2 | [1/31-2/6] | Lab 2 Building an ALU Monday - 03 Build an ALU Wednesday - 04 Finite State Machines |
| Week 3 | [2/7-2/13] | Lab 3 Finite State Machines Monday - 05 Decoders, Registers, and Register Files Wednesday - 06 Datapaths and Control |
| Week 4 | [2/14-2/20] | Lab 4 Building a basic processor Monday - 07 The Arithmetic Machine and Instruction Memory Wednesday - Day off |
| Week 5 | [2/21-2/27] | Lab 5 Building a complete processor Monday - 08 Control and Loops Wednesday - 09 MIPS Loads & Stores |
| Week 6 | [2/28-3/6] | Lab 6 Basic Programming in MIPS Monday - 10 Assembly and Functions Wednesday - 11 Pointers and More Assembly |
| Week 7 | [3/7-3/13] | Lab 7 Advanced MIPS Monday - 12 Recursion Wednesday - 13 IO and interrupts |
| Week 8 | [3/14-3/20] | Lab 8 Input/Output Monday - 14 Performance Wednesday - 15 Pipelining and Forwarding |
| Week 9 | [3/21-2/27] | Lab 9 Controlling the SPIMbot Monday - 16 Sundry (NO GROUP ASSESSMENT, NO ATTENDANCE) Wednesday - Day off |
| Week 10 | [3/28-4/3] | Lab 10 Pipelining and Performance Monday - 17 Stalls and Flushes Wednesday - 18 Pipeline Cycle Counting Review Session |
| Week 11 | [4/4-4/10] | Monday - 19 Cache blocks Wednesday - 20 Cache associativity |
| Week 12 | [4/11-4/17] | Lab 11 Cache Simulator Monday - 21 Cache memory access patterns (TUESDAY DAY OFF) Wednesday - 22 cache writing/prefetching (OPTIONAL ATTENDANCE) |
| Week 13 | [4/18-4/24] | Lab 12 Cache Conscious Code Monday - 23 Cache concious code Wednesday - 24 Cache concious code |
| Week 14 | [4/25-5/1] | Lab 13 SIMD Monday - 25 Virtual Memory Wednesday - 26 SIMD |
| Week 15 | [5/2-5/5] | Lab 14 SPIMbot competition Monday - 27 Cache Coherence Wednesday - SPIMbot competition day (NO GROUP ASSESSMENT, NO ATTENDANCE) |
| Final Exam Week | [5/6-5/14] | Exam Dates TBA |