Midterm exam on Oct. 17 (Wed)
Final exam during 830-1030AM on Dec. 14 (Fri)

Chapter 7 Large and Fast: Exploiting Memory Hierarchy

• 7.1 Introduction
• 7.2 The Basics of Caches
• 7.3 Cache Performance
• 7.4 Virtual memory

Chapter 6 Enhancing Performance with Pipelining

• Overview: Datapath and Control
  
• 6.1 An Overview of Pipelining
• 6.2 A pipelined Datapath
• 6.3 Pipelined Control
• 6.4 Data Hazards and Forwarding
• 6.5 Data Hazards and Stalls
• <>6.6 Branch Hazards & 6.8 Exceptions

Chapter 9 Multiprocessors and Clusters