Course Outline - Computer Architecture | ECE 472, Assignments of Computer Architecture and Organization

Download Course Outline - Computer Architecture | ECE 472 and more Assignments Computer Architecture and Organization in PDF only on Docsity! ECE 472/ 572 Computer Architecture Fall 2006 Instructor: Dr. Zhongfeng Wang Email: zwang@ece.orst.edu Tel: 737-9843(o) Office Rm: 3111 KEC, Office Hr’s: Tues/Thur. 2:00-3:00pm Class Meetings: Tues/Thursday 10:00-11:40am Dearborn 118 TA: Somya Rathi Email: rathi@ece.orst.edu, Office hours: Mon/Wed 11:30-12:30am at Batcheller 349. Class website: http://web.engr.orst.edu/~rathi/ece472 Textbook: (required) Computer Organization and Design, the HW/SW interface by David Patterson and John Hennessy, 3rd edition , 2004 Reference books: 1. Computer Organization & Architecture: Design for performance by William Stallings, 6th edition, 2003. ISBN 0-13-035119-9 2. Essentials of Computer Architecture, ISBN 0-13-149179-2, by Douglas E. Comer, 2005 Grading:  Homework (~20%)  Midterm-1 (~25%) (in 5th week )  Project (~30%)  Midterm-2 (~25%) (in 10th week) Course Outline (subject to changes): 1. Introduction (Chap 1) 2. Instructions (Chap 2) 3. Computer Arithmetic (Chap 3) 4. Accessing and Understanding Performance (Chap. 4) 5. Data-path and Control (Chap 5) 6. Pipelining (Chap 6) 7. Memory Systems (Chap 7) Useful Links: 1. University of Wisconsin –Madison. Intro to Computer Arch. http://www.engr.wisc.edu/ece/courses/ece552.html (specifically, course homepage of Dr. Lipasti) 2. UC-Berkeley, CS152 class website http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs152/ 3. UCSD, CSE240A class website http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/classes/fa02/cse240a/lecture.html 4. UIUC, CS232 http://www-courses.cs.uiuc.edu/~cs232/lectures/ 5. SPIM (software for MIPS simulation) reference sites (1) http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~larus/spim.html