University of Jordan

Computer Engineering Department

Instructor

Dr. Gheith Abandah

Email

abandah@ju.edu.jo

Home page

http://www.abandah.com/gheith

Office

Computer Engineering 406

Office hours

No. of credit hrs

Prerequisites

CPE 232

Time and room

	Section 1: Sun, Tue, and Thu 8:00-9:00, Architecture 001
	Section 2: Sun, Tue, and Thu 9:00-10:00, Middle Auditorium
	Section 3: Sun, Tue, and Thu 18:00-19:00, EE 101

Textbook

Raj Jain, The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis, Wiley, 1991.

References

Patterson and Hennessy. Computer Organization & Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, 2nd ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 1997.
Hennessy, Patterson, and Goldberg. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 3nd ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 2002.

Grading

Assignments

10%

First Exam

20%

Second Exam

20%

Final Exam

50%

Tentative outline

	Overview of Performance Evaluation
	Measurement Techniques and Tools

First exam

	Probability Theory and Statistics
	Experimental Design and Analysis

Second exam

	Simulation
	Queuing Models

Final exam

Handouts:

Use the following library in Verilog simulation experiments: lib431.v

Assignment #2 (Due Thursday 6 Nov, 2003)

Assignment #3 (Due Thursday 11 Dec, 2003)