Schedule

References

CSAPP: Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective by Bryant and O’Hallaron, 3rd edition, Pearson, 2015
PCOD: Parallel Computer Organization and Design by Dubois, Annavaram and Stenström, Cambridge University Press, 2012
CAAQA: Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by Hennessy and Patterson, Morgan Kaufmann, 2017
GCH: Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management by Jones, Hosking, and Moss, CRC, 2023

Slides Location

Shared Folder: Both lecture (notes and completed versions) and discussion slides are posted here (requires your @usc.edu login).

Week 1 (Aug 25 ➙ Aug 28)

Tue Aug 25: Lecture 1 🚀 HelloLab UNIT 00
Course Overview
- 9:30am-10:50am (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
  UNIT 01 - Binary Representation (CSAPP 2.1) Video Lecture UNIT 01
- Watch before Thursday’s lecture.
Thu Aug 27: Lecture 2 UNIT 02
Integer Operations (CSAPP 2.2-2.3)
- 9:30am-10:50am (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
Fri Aug 28: Discussion 1 DISC 01
Binary Representation & Development Environment
- 10-11:50am (MHP-101): Session 1
- 12-1:50pm (THH-201): Session 2

Tue Sep 1: Lecture 3 ⏰ HelloLab 🚀 DataLab UNIT 02
Integer Operations (CSAPP 2.2-2.3)
- 9:30am-10:50am (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
Thu Sep 3: Lecture 4 UNIT 03
Floating Point Representation (CSAPP 2.4)
- 9:30am-10:50am (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
Fri Sep 4: Discussion 2 DISC 02
Bitwise Operations on Integers and DataLab
- 10-11:50am (MHP-101): Session 1
- 12-1:50pm (THH-201): Session 2

Tue Sep 8: Lecture 5 UNIT 03 UNIT 04
FP Rounding, CPU Organization (CSAPP 3.1-3.4)
Thu Sep 10: Lecture 6 UNIT 04
Assembly Operations, Strings (CSAPP 3.5)
- 9:30am-10:50am (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
Fri Sep 11: Discussion 3 DISC 03
Float Pitfalls and DataLab Puzzles
- 10-11:50am (MHP-101): Session 1
- 12-1:50pm (THH-201): Session 2

Tue Sep 15: Lecture 7 ⏰ DataLab 🚀 BombLab UNIT 05
Assembly Operations (CSAPP 3.5)
- 9:30am-10:50am (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
Thu Sep 17: Lecture 8 UNIT 05
Assembly Operations (CSAPP 3.5)
- 9:30am-10:50am (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
Fri Sep 18: Discussion 4 DISC 04
x86-64, gdb, BombLab
- 10-11:50am (MHP-101): Session 1
- 12-1:50pm (THH-201): Session 2

Tue Sep 22: Lecture 9 UNIT 06
Stack and Procedures (CSAPP 3.7, 3.8)
- 9:30am-10:50am (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
Thu Sep 24: Lecture 10 UNIT 07
Conditional Flow (CSAPP 3.6)
- 9:30am-10:50am (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
Fri Sep 25: Discussion 5 DISC 05
Control Flow, Arrays, Procedures
- 10-11:50am (MHP-101): Session 1
- 12-1:50pm (THH-201): Session 2

Tue Sep 29: Lecture 11 UNIT 08
Structs, Unions, Buffer Overflows (CSAPP 3.9, 3.10)
- 9:30am-10:50am (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
Thu Oct 1: Lecture 12 UNIT 08
Buffer Overflow Attacks (CSAPP 3.10)
- 9:30am-10:50am (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
Fri Oct 2: Discussion 6 DISC 06 DISC 07 ✏️ Midterm I
MT1 Review; Buffer Overflows and AttackLab
- 10-11:50am (MHP-101): Session 1
- 12-1:50pm (THH-201): Session 2
Midterm I
- 4-5:40pm (TBD): Check the exams page

Tue Oct 6: Lecture 13 ⏰ BombLab 🚀 AttackLab UNIT 09
Introduction to ARM
- 9:30am-10:50am (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
Thu Oct 8: Lecture 14 Fall Break - No class
- 9:30am-10:50am (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
Fri Oct 9: Discussion 7 Fall Break - No class

Tue Oct 13: Lecture 15 UNIT 10
Memory Hierarchy and Caches (CSAPP 3.10, 6.1-6.3)
- 9:30am-10:50am (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
Thu Oct 15: Lecture 16 UNIT 10
Cache Organization (CSAPP 6.4)
- 9:30am-10:50am (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
Fri Oct 16: Discussion 8 DISC 08
Review of C Programming
- 10-11:50am (MHP-101): Session 1
- 12-1:50pm (THH-201): Session 2

Tue Oct 20: Lecture 17 UNIT 10
Cache Performance (CSAPP 6.5-6.7)
- 9:30am-10:50am (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
Thu Oct 22: Lecture 18 ⏰ AttackLab 🚀 CacheLab UNIT 16
Cache Coherence (CAAQA 5.1-5.4)
- 9:30am-10:50am (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
Fri Oct 23: Discussion 9 DISC 09
Caches and CacheLab
- 10-11:50am (MHP-101): Session 1
- 12-1:50pm (THH-201): Session 2

Tue Oct 27: Lecture 19 UNIT 11
Virtual Memory (CSAPP 9.1-9.3)
- 9:30am-10:50am (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
Thu Oct 29: Lecture 20 ⏰ CacheLab UNIT 11
VM & Page Tables & TLBs (CSAPP 9.4-9.8)
- 9:30am-10:50am (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
Fri Oct 30: Discussion 10 DISC 10
Virtual Memory
- 10-11:50am (MHP-101): Session 1
- 12-1:50pm (THH-201): Session 2

Tue Nov 3: Lecture 21 UNIT 11
Page Faults (CSAPP 9.1-9.8)
- 9:30am-10:50am (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
Thu Nov 5: Lecture 22 UNIT 12
Dynamic Memory Allocation (CSAPP 9.9-9.12)
- 9:30am-10:50am (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
Fri Nov 6: Discussion 11 DISC 11 ✏️ Midterm II
MT2 Review
- 10-11:50am (MHP-101): Session 1
- 12-1:50pm (THH-201): Session 2
Midterm II
- 4-5:40pm (TBD): Check the exams page

Tue Nov 10: Lecture 23 🚀 MallocLab UNIT 12
Dynamic Memory Allocation (GCH)
- 9:30am-10:50am (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
Thu Nov 12: Lecture 24 UNIT 13
Linking (CSAPP 7.1-7.12)
- 9:30am-10:50am (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
Fri Nov 13: Discussion 12 DISC 12
MallocLab
- 10-11:50am (MHP-101): Session 1
- 12-1:50pm (THH-201): Session 2

Tue Nov 17: Lecture 25 UNIT 14
Pipeline Organization (PCOD 3.3)
- 9:30am-10:50am (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
Thu Nov 19: Lecture 26 UNIT 14
Pipeline Organization (PCOD 3.3)
- 9:30am-10:50am (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
Fri Nov 20: Discussion 13 DISC 13
Processor Pipeline
- 10-11:50am (MHP-101): Session 1
- 12-1:50pm (THH-201): Session 2

Tue Nov 24: Lecture 27 UNIT 15
Advanced Processor Organization (PCOD 3.4)
- [9:30am-10:50am] (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
Thu Nov 26: Lecture 28 UNIT 15
Thanksgiving - Holiday
- 9:30am-10:50am (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
Fri Nov 27: Discussion 14
Thanksgiving - Holiday
- 10-11:50am (MHP-101): Session 1
- 12-1:50pm (THH-201): Session 2

Tue Dec 1: Lecture 29 ⏰ MallocLab UNIT 17
Code Optimization (CSAPP Ch.5)
- 9:30am-10:50am (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
Thu Dec 3: Lecture 30
Review and Farewell
- 9:30am-10:50am (SGM 101): Mark Redekopp
Fri Dec 4: Discussion 15 DISC 14 DISC 15
Static and Dynamic Scheduling; Final Review
- 10-11:50am (MHP-101): Session 1
- 12-1:50pm (THH-201): Session 2