No.
of Credit hrs: 3
Time
and Room: Sat,
Mon, and Wed 11:00-12:00, CE 107
Textbook: M.
Mano. Computer System Architecture, 3rd ed., Prentice Hall,
1993.
Reference: 1.
Hennessy and Patterson. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach,
2nd ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 1995.
2.
H. Cragon. Memory Systems and Pipelined Processors, Jones and Partlett,
1996.
3.
K. Hwang. Advanced Computer Architecture: Parallelism, Scalability,
Programmability, McGraw-Hill, 1993.
4.
J. Hayes. Computer Architecture and Organization, 2nd ed.,
McGraw-Hill, 1988.
Grading: First
exam 20%
Second
exam 20%
Homeworks 10%
Final
exam 35%
Project 15%
Tentative Outline: Introduction 2
hrs
Verilog Hardware Description
Language 3
hrs
Register Transfer and Microoperations (Chapter 4) 3
hrs
Basic
Computer Organization and Design (Chapter 5) 5 hrs
Microprogrammed
Control (Chapter 7) 3
hrs
First
exam
Central
Processing Unit (Chapter 8) 5
hrs
Pipeline
and Vector Processing (Chapter 9) 4
hrs
Computer
Arithmetic (Chapter 10) 4
hrs
Second
exam
Input/Output
Organization (Chapter 11) 2
hrs
Memory
Organization (Chapter 12) 4
hrs
Multiprocessors
(Chapter 13) 3
hrs
Future
Trends 2
hrs
Final
exam
Special Dates: Sat 6 Nov 1999 (11-12 am) First
Exam
Sat
11 Dec 1999 (11-12 am) Second
Exam
Sat
25 Dec 1999 Christmas
Sat
1 Jan 2000 New
Year
Thu-Sun
6-9 Jan 2000 Fiter
Feast (عيد الفطر)
Wed
12 Jan 2000 Last
Lecture
Tue
18 Jan 2000 (9-11 am) Final
Exam