University of Jordan

Electrical Engineering Department

EE 531

Computer Organization and Design

Fall 2001

 

Instructor Dr. Gheith Abandah
Email abandah@ju.edu.jo
Home page http://www.ju.edu.jo/~abandah
Office Computer Engineering 406
Office hours TBA
No. of credit hrs 3
Prerequisites EE 331
Time and room Mon and Wed 8:00-9:30, EE 101
Textbooks

  1. Hennessy and Patterson. Computer Organization & Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, 2nd ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 1998.
References

  1. Hennessy and Patterson. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 2nd ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 1995.

  2. J. Hayes. Computer Architecture and Organization, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, 1998.

  3. K. Hwang, Advanced Computer Architecture: Parallelism, Scalability, Programmability, McGraw-Hill, 1993.

  4. M. Mano. Computer System Architecture, 3rd ed., Prentice Hall, 1993.
Grading
First Exam 25%
Second Exam 25%
Final Exam 50%
Tentative outline
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Introduction

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Performance

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Instruction Sets

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Computer Arithmetic

First exam

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Datapath Design

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Control Design

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Pipelining

Second exam

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Memory Organization

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Input/Output Organization

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Multiprocessors

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Future Trends

Final exam