| Date | Lecture Topic | Assignment due |
| Thur, Sept 10 | Introduction | |
| Tues, Sept 15 | Technology | Moore discussion questions |
| Thur, Sept 17 | Technology | |
| Tues, Sept 22 | Technology | |
| Thur, Sept 24 | Performance | |
| Tues, Sept 29 | ISAs | |
| Thur, Oct 1 | ISAs | Cocke discussion questions |
| Tues, Oct 6 | ISAs | Homework1 Due |
| Thur, Oct 8 | Caches | |
| Tues, Oct 13 | Caches | |
| Thur, Oct 15 | Caches | Jouppi reading questions |
| Tues, Oct 20 | No class | |
| Thur, Oct 22 | Virtual Memory | Homework2 Due |
| Tues, Oct 27 | Virtual Memory and review | |
| Thur, Oct 29 | Midterm Exam | |
| Tues, Nov 3 | Pipelining & Branch Prediction | |
| Thur, Nov 5 | Pipelining & Branch Prediction | |
| Tues, Nov 10 | Superscalar | |
| Thur, Nov 12 | Superscalar | Alpha 21164 questions |
| Tues, Nov 17 | Scheduling | Homework3 Due |
| Thur, Nov 19 | Scheduling | |
| Tues, Nov 24 | Scheduling | Alpha 21264 questions |
| Thur, Nov 26 | Thanksgiving -- No Class | |
| Thur, Dec 1 | Multicore | |
| Thur, Dec 3 | Multicore | |
| Tues, Dec 8 | Multicore and 'Multithreading`_ | |
| Thur, Dec 10 | Vectors & XBox360 | Exploiting Choice (SMT paper) questions |