Email:
    abandah@fet.ju.edu.jo

Home page:
    http://fet.ju.edu.jo/~abandah

Office:
    EE 405

Office hours:
    Sat and Mon 10:00-11:00, Sun 11:00-12:00

No. of credit hrs:
    3

Time and room:
    Sat, Mon, and Wed 9:00-10:00, EE 001

Textbook:
    J. Hayes. Computer Architecture and Organization, 2^nd ed., McGraw-Hill, 1988.

Reference:
    Hennessy and Patterson. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 2^nd ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 1995.
    H. Cragon. Memory Systems and Pipelined Processors, Jones and Partlett, 1996.
    K. Hwang. Advanced Computer Architecture: Parallelism, Scalability, Programmability, McGraw-Hill, 1993.

Grading:
    Homework and quizzes 10%
    First exam                     20%
    Second exam                 20%
    Final exam                     50%

Tentative outline:
    Introduction, History, and Terminology     3 hrs
    Design Methodology                                4 hrs
    Processor Design                                     9 hrs
        First exam
    Control Design                                         5 hrs
    Memory Organization                               6 hrs
        Second exam
    System Organization                                 6 hrs
    Parallel Processing                                    7 hrs
        Final exam