UCF
School of Computer Science
CDA 4150 Computer Architecture
Spring 2005
Syllabus
Professor : Euripides Montagne Tele.: 823-2684 email:[email protected]
Lecture meetings:
MWF 11:30 (noon). – 12:20 p.m. (ENG2 105)
Office hours:
Office hours: MW from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m (CSB 239)
TR from 4:30:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m (CSB 239)
TA : Jingfei Kong Tele.: (407) 823-3228 email: [email protected]
Office hours:
WF from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m (CSB 107)
Course Outline: This course is intended to provide students an understanding in the
fundamental concepts and design principles of computer architecture. The students will
gain a sufficient understanding of the relationships between higher-level programming
languages and machine language.
Course Topics: Organization and architecture of computer systems hardware; register
transfer notation; Instruction set architecture (ISA); addressing modes; computer
arithmetic; processor design for sequential execution, pipelining and superscalars;
memory systems; virtual memory; I/O system; interrupt handling; introduction to
multiprocessors.
Prerequisites:
• CDA 3103 – Computer Organization
Required textbook:
The textbook for this course is: J. Hennesy and D. Patterson, Computer Architecture: A
Quantitative Approach”, Morgan Kaufman, 3rd edition, 2002.
Style of Class Meetings:
Class meetings will not consist of traditional lectures, with the instructor doing most of
the talking and the student doing most of the listening. Rather, meetings will consist of
discussions on each topic and the instructor will help guide the discussion by asking
questions.
