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I will post lecture notes (in PDF format) shortly before I cover them in class. Click on topic title for link to notes.

Readings in blue will be provided by the instructor (click on links below for PS or PDF).

Topic	Reading Assignment
Course Introduction & Fundamentals of Computer Design and Evaluation	H/P Chapter 1
Instruction Sets	H/P Chapter 2;
Pipelined Processors	H/P Appendix A (except A.8)
Superscalar Execution	H/P 3.6 only static portion (stop at dynamic scheduling)
Software/Static Exploitation of Instruction Level Parallelism	H/P Chapter 4; EPIC/IA-64
Hardware/Dynamic Exploitation of Instruction Level Parallelism Dynamic Scheduling: Scoreboard and Tomasulo Dynamic Scheduling: Speculation and Precise Interrupts	H/P 3.1, A.8, 3.2-3.15; Inst Issue Logic; MIPS R10000; Complexity-Effective Superscalar; Continual Flow Pipelines, Designing for Power; DIVA
Review
Memory Systems Storage Hierarchy Principles and Caches 1 Improving Cache Performance More Performance & Main Memory OS and the Memory Hierarchy	H/P Chapter 5; NUCA
Multithreading and Multiprocessors Sohi's talk on Multiscalar Laudon's talk on Niagra	H/P Chapter 6; SMT, Multiscalar
Lebeck's talk on nano architectures	see nano.ee.duke.edu for more information