| Date | Textbook | Lecture Topic | Assignment due |
| Thur, Sept 9 | Introduction | ||
| Tues, Sept 14 | ISAs | ||
| Thur, Sept 16 | ISAs (continued) | Moore discussion questions | |
| Tues, Sept 21 | 1.2-1.4 | Performance | |
| Thur, Sept 23 | 1.1 | Technology | |
| Tues, Sept 28 | 2.1 | Pipelining (Guest lecture: Arun Raghavan) | |
| Thur, Sept 30 | 4.1 | Pipelining (continued) | Cocke discussion questions |
| Tues, Oct 5 | 2.2 | Caches | |
| Thur, Oct 7 | 6.1, 6.2, 6.3.1 | Caches (continued) | |
| Tues, Oct 12 | Fall Break -- No Class | ||
| Thur, Oct 14 | Caches (continued) | Homework1 | |
| Tues, Oct 19 | 2.3, 6.1.1 | Virtual Memory | Jouppi reading questions |
| Thur, Oct 21 | 3.1, 3.2 3.5.1 | Superscalar (Guest lecture: Santosh Nagarakatte) | Homework2 |
| Tues, Oct 26 | 4.2, 4.3, 5.3.3 | Superscalar (continued) | |
| Thur, Oct 28 | Review/catchup | Homework3 | |
| Tues, Nov 2 | Midterm Exam | ||
| Thur, Nov 4 | 3.3.1–3.3.4 | Scheduling-4up (Scheduling-1up) | |
| Tues, Nov 9 | 5.0, 5.1 | Scheduling (continued) | |
| Thur, Nov 11 | 5.2, 5.3.3 | Scheduling (continued) | Homework4 |
| Tues, Nov 16 | 5.4, 5.5 | Scheduling (continued) | Chrysos reading questions |
| Thur, Nov 18 | 7.0, 7.1.3 7.2, 7.3 | Multicore-4up (Multicore-1up) | Project Proposal Due |
| Tues, Nov 23 | 7.4 | Multicore (continued) | Homework5 |
| Thur, Nov 25 | Thanksgiving -- No Class | ||
| Tues, Nov 30 | 8.2 | Multicore (continued) | |
| Thur, Dec 2 | 8.1 | Multithreading | |
| Tues, Dec 7 | 7.5 | Vectors | Homework6 |
| Thur, Dec 9 | 9.1 | Power & XBox360 | Tullsen discussion questions |