CGS 3269 - COMPUTER SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE

SUMMER 2002

COURSE SYLLABUS

This page last updated:Tuesday, July 23, 2002 17:27

 

• The final exam is on Thursday, July 25, 2002, 12:00-1:50 PM in the regular classroom.

 

• The Makeup assignment can be found here. This assignment is not compulsory. If you submit this assignment, your score will be compared against your score on Assignment # 1, and the lower of two scores will be dropped.

 

• Sample practice questions for the Final Exam can be found here (HTML format), or here (PDF format).

 

• The grading policy (including the grading curve) can be found here.

 

Details about the Class Presentations can be found here.

Important Dates:

July 04: Holiday

July 09, 11, 16, 18: Class Presentations

July 23: Revision for the Final Exam

July 25: Final Exam

 

Class Meets: Tuesday & Thursday at 12:00-1:50 pm in ENGR2 302

Instructor

Vivek Bhatia

vivekb@cs.ucf.edu

http://www.cs.ucf.edu/courses/cgs3269

Office Hours: 

Office - Computer Science Building, CSB 207

Monday
Tuesday	2 PM - 3 PM
Wednesday
Thursday	2 PM - 3 PM
Friday

TA

Feixue (Stephanie) Han

Email: fhan@cs.ucf.edu

Office Phone: 407-823-4733

Office Hours: CSB 207, Wednesday 1 PM - 2 PM

 

Grades

None yet, but I grade on a curve.

Grading

Notes

• All homework and course assignments will be posted to the course website. Lecture notes and additional handouts will also be on the website for you to print.
• Assignments/Home works must be turned in by end of class on the day on which they are due. Email submissions will not be accepted unless you have my prior permission.
• Most of the discussions in the class will be at the general and discussion level. The real learning will occur outside of class with you doing the reading and working on the homeworks/assignments. You will be responsible for the material presented in class, the material covered in the relevant sections of the book, and the homeworks/assignments. I will ask questions in class based upon the assigned reading, lectures to date, homeworks/assignments, and extrapolations to new material. I expect you to have done the work, comprehend what has been covered to date, and have the ability to answer questions. If you do not understand something, ask.
• No  calculators may be used on any tests in this course.

 

Text: Structured Computer Organization, Fourth Edition, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-095990-1

Course Topics

COURSE TOPICS	CLASS NOTES
Introduction.ppt
General overview of various architecture designs Five basic components of the PC architecture: CPU, memory, I/O, disk storage, programs Number systems: binary, octal, hexadecimal, and decimal Binary and Hex arithmetic	classnotes1
Internal information - How data is stored in the PC Character representations in PCs, ASCII and Unicode	classnotes2
In-class Quiz	May 14,2002
Transistors, gates, half adders, full adders The architecture of the PC Brief history of the evolution of various PC components Buses, BIOS, and motherboards	classnotes3
Microprocessors CISC vs. RISC Architectures Superscalar speedup, pipelined FPUs, ALUs Micro-code, L1 and L2 Cache memory DMA channels, Internal clock speeds Chip fabrication technology and its evolution	classnotes4
Internal Memory RAM, ROM - erasable, programmable, erasable and programmable RAMBUS Technology Cache memory, direct-mapped, set-associative, fully-associative Cache memory address resolution, Cache memory replacement policies	classnotes5
MID-TERM EXAM	06/13/2002
Error detection and correction in memory Hamming codes, SECDED codes External Memory (Disk storage and other storage media) RAID technology (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks)	classnotes6
Instruction set design, Types of instructions Addressing techniques, registers, boundary alignment Exception handling, interrupts	classnotes7
Bus technology, Expansion buses, PCI, AGP, ISA, EISA, VL, etc. Data lines, addressing lines, multiplexing Bus control, mastering, timing, sharing, burst modes	classnotes8
Introduction to other computer architectures Comparison of architectures, benchmarks, MIPS, FLOPS, MFLOPS Parallel processing, interconnection networks Pipelined processing SIMD architectures, MIMD architectures, stack machines Vector processors

Click here for the Boolean Algebra Rules

 

Assignments

	Specification	Assigned Date	Due Date
Assignment # 1	assign1.html	05/23/2002	06/04/2002