Computer Architecture Fall 2000

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Time and Location

MW 5:30-6:45 EC 2.120

Professor - Contact

Dr. Yuke Wang

Office EC3.608

Office hour - MW 3:00pm-5:00pm or by appointment

Teaching Assistant

Mr. Yingtao Jiang at Yingtao@utdallas.edu

Office Hours: M 3:00pm-4:00pm, W 4:00pm-5:00pm

Mr. Amir R Attarha at attarha@utdallas.edu

Office 2.318 Office Hour MW 1-2

Pre-requisites

Digital Circuits (EE 4320),

Computer Organization (EE2310), and C/C++

Textbook

Hennessey & Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach

Morgan Kaufmann, 2nd edition. ISBN 1-55860-329-8

This course covers the latest trends in processor, memory, I/O and system design. It focuses on the techniques of quantitative analysis and evaluation of computer systems to understand and compare alternative design choices in system design. The emphasis of the course is on the major components of high performance processors and computers: pipelining, instruction level parallelism, memory hierarchies, input/output, and network-oriented interconnections. In addition to the text, the course may also use articles from technical literature to discuss relevant topics, such as, Signal processors, VLIW etc. Students (in groups) will undertake a major computing system analysis and design project.