ECE 472/ 572 Computer Architecture
Fall 2006
Instructor: Dr. Zhongfeng Wang
Email: [email protected] 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: [email protected],
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
