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+ COE 423
Computer Architecture
Instructor
◼ Dr. Maria Abi Saad ◼ Email: [email protected]
Course Description
◼ Introduces computer components and systems. ◼ Topics include evolution of computer systems, bus interconnections, I/O mechanisms, memory management and hierarchy, instruction set design, and basic pipelined techniques. ◼ Course Prerequisite: COE 323 Microprocessors
Course Material
◼ Textbook:
◼ William Stallings, Computer Organization & Architecture: Designing for Performance , Tenth Global Edition, Prentice Hall, 2016
◼ Additional resources:
◼ David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface , 5th Edition, 2013
◼ Handouts / slides / announcements on
blackboard
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+ Introduction ◼ CPU ◼ ROM ◼ RAM ◼ Cache ◼ Hard disk ◼ External devices ◼ Interconnect ◼ Controllers Course Topics – Part 1 Introduction Week 1 : Computer Architecture / Organization, Computer Structure / Function, Computer History, Evolution Week 2 : Performance Issues + Course Topics – Part 2 The Computer System Weeks 3 & 4 : Components and Interconnections (Instruction Cycle, Interrupts, Interconnection Structures, Buses, Bus Types, and Bus Arbitration / Timing) Weeks 5 & 6 : Cache Memory (Characteristics, Performance, Organization, Memory Hierarchy, Locality of Reference, Cache Design and Organization) Week 7 : Internal Memory (Semiconductor Technologies, Organization, Packaging, Error Correction, and Advanced DRAM Organizations) Weeks 8 & 9 : External Memory (Magnetic Disks, RAID, Optical Memory, Magnetic Tape, State-of-the-Art Examples) Week 10 : Input / Output (External Devices, I/O Modules, Programmed and Interrupt- Driven I/O, Direct Memory Access, I/O Channels and Processors) (^7) + Course Topics – Part 3 The CPU Weeks 11 & 12 : Computer Arithmetic (ALU, Integer and Floating-Point Representation, Arithmetic Implementations) Week 13 : Instruction Sets (Trends, Instruction Types, Examples) Week 14 : Instruction Formats and Addressing Modes, pipelining 8 5 6 7 8
+ Make-up Exams ◼ Students who miss an exam must submit a petition to the School of Engineering with any documents supporting their absence claim. ◼ At the School’s discretion, students might be asked to appear in-person to defend their claim. ◼ Tests missed due to a valid excuse must be made up within one week of the absence. ◼ The student is responsible for arranging the make- up session with the course instructor. Academic Honesty ◼ Cheating is considered to be a very serious breach of the cheating policy of the faculty and will not be tolerated. ◼ Students caught cheating on an exam receive a zero on the exam in the 1st^ cheating attempt and a warning. ◼ Students caught cheating for the 2nd^ time in the same course receive an F in the course and a 2nd^ warning. ◼ A grade of 0 on an exam resulting from cheating must be counted in the student’s course grade. ◼ Any student who receives three warnings will be suspended. + Disclaimer
◼ Please refer to syllabus for more details.
◼ Given the uncertainties surrounding this
semester, the instructor reserves the right to
make modifications to this information, and will
inform students accordingly.
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