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This calendar provides the main topics covered during each lecture (L), assignment due dates, quiz dates, and recitation dates (R).


WEEK #	DAY 1	DAY 2	DAY 3	DAY 4


1			L1 - Course Overview and Mechanics. Basics of Information	R1


2	L2 - Digital Abstraction, Combinational Logic, Voltage-Based Encoding	R2	L3 - CMOS Technology; Power and Performance Issues	R3


3	L4 - Design of Logic Gates; Timing	R4	L5 - Canonical Logic Forms, Synthesis, Simplification Lab #1 Due	R5 Quiz #1


4	L6 - Storage Elements, State, Finite State Machine	R6	L7 - D-registers, FSM Example Lab #2 Due	R7


5	L8 - Synchronization, Metastability	R8	L9 - Pipelining; Throughput and Latency Lab #3 Due	R9


6	L10 - Case Study: Multipliers	R10	L11 - Models of Computation, Programmable Architectures	R11 Quiz #2


7		R12	L12 - Beta Instruction Set Architecture, Compilation Lab #4 Due	R13


8	L13 - Machine Language Programming Issues	R14	L14 - Stacks and Procedures	R15


9	L15 - Non-Pipelined Beta Implementation	R16	L16 - Pipelined Beta Implementation, Bypassing	R17 Quiz #3


10	L17 - Pipeline Issues: Delay Slots, Annulment, Exceptions	R18	L18 - Multilevel Memories; Locality, Performance, Caches Lab #5 Due	R19


11	L19 - Case Study: Cache Design	R20	L20 - Communication Issues: Busses, Networks, Protocols	R21 Quiz #4


12	L21 - Virtual Memory: Mapping, Protection, Contexts	R22	L22 - Virtual machines, OS Kernel Code, Supervisor Calls, Scheduling Lab #6 Due	R23


13	L23 - Communicating Processes: Semaphores, Synchronization, Atomicity, Deadlock	R24


14	L24 - Interrupts, Real Time	R25	L25 - Parallel Processing, Shared Memory, Cache Coherence, Consistency Criteria	R26 Quiz #5


15	L26 - Looking Ahead: Future Computer Architectures	Lab #7 Due

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