Engineering 9859 CoE Fundamentals -- Computer Architecture

Instructor Dr. D. K. Peters
Office hour Mo, We 3:00-4:00, or by appointment
Lectures: Mo, We, Fr 9:00-9:50 EN4033
Tutorial: Tu 2:00-2:50 EN4033
T.A. Wang Pu

Schedule | Evaluation

Detailed Schedule

The following is the tentative schedule of lectures, meetings and other deliverables.

Date Deliverable Lecture/meeting Examples/Handouts
We 10.03 Introduction Course info. sheet
Fr 10.05 Performance
Mo 10.08 Thanksgiving -- No lecture
We 10.10 Instruction Set Principles
Fr 10.12 Problem set 1
Mo 10.15 PS 1 solutions
We 10.17 Memory Hierarchy Design
Fr 10.19 Problem set 2 No lecture
Mo 10.22 PS 2 solutions
We 10.24
Fr 10.26
Mo 10.29 Problem set 3 Review PS 3 solutions
We 10.31 Test 1:00--3:00 EN4033

Textbook

John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach. Morgan Kaufmann, third edition, 2003.

References

  1. Nick Carter. Schaum's Outline of Computer Architecture. McGraw-Hill, 2002.
  2. John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson. Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface. Morgan Kaufmann, second edition, 1998.
  3. W. Stallings. Computer Organization and Architecture: Designing for Performance. Prentice-Hall, seventh edition, 2006.
  4. Andrew S. Tanenbaum. Structured Computer Organization. Prentice Hall, fifth edition, 2006.

Evaluation

Assignments (3)40%
Exam 60%

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