CDA 3103 - Computer Organization– Spring 2005

3 Credit Hours

 

Schedule:   Monday & Wednesday 4:30-5:45, ENG2 0102

Instructor: Dr. Khaled Hussain

Office: CSB-223

Email: khaled@cs.ucf.edu (When sending e-mail, you have to begin the subject with “CDA3103”)

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Description

 

This course is designed to provide a fundamental understanding of basic hardware technologies, MIPS assembly language, Intel assembly language, combinatorial and sequential logic design, construction of microprocessors, and evaluating performance.

 

 

Grading

There will be a total of 500 points, distributed as follows:

Upon receiving grades for exams, quizzes … etc, you have two weeks to question/contest your grade. After that, you will not be able to contest the grade which you received. This is to ensure that the grader remembers the grading criteria and is able to fairly consider any re-grading request.

The instructor reserves the right to change the grading policy at any time, but will not make the requirements more stringent than those stated here.

 

Assignments and quizzes

• Assignments will be turned via WebCT.ucf.edu, unless specified otherwise.
• Assignments must be submitted in a high-quality and professional manner. They should be well-written and understandable.
• Pop quizzes will occasionally be given in lecture or lab. These cannot be made up, NO EXCEPTIONS. Your lowest pop quiz grade will be dropped.

 

Computer skills

Students are expected to know C and Java very well.

 

 

Exams

•         Midterm exam: Wednesday, February 16, 4:30-5:45

•         Final Exam: Monday, May 2, 4:00pm-6:50pm. 

 

Required textbook

Patterson and Hennessy, “Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface,” 3rd edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2005.

Letter grades:

Plus/minus grades will be awarded for the course, if deemed appropriate by the instructor.

 

Late Policies

This course covers a lot of material and late assignments will seriously impact your ability to learn the next section of the course. Late assignments will be penalized 20% per day, up to 2 days.

 

Makeup Exam Policy

No makeup exams will be given unless I am notified in advance and approve of it.

Cooperation and Cheating

Feel free to talk to other students in the class, the TA, or myself. However, you are not allowed to look at or copy another student’s solution or program. Exchanging them is cheating and will be reported to the University. Both the source and the recipient will get a grade F for the course.

Last date to withdraw is March 4, 2005.

 

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Updated by Farhan Saleem Khan

02/22/2005