| | Standard Course Syllabus | Course Supervisor | Date of Approval |
| | Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering | Ozguner, F | September 5, 2007 |
| | 694A | Computer Architecture and Design II |
| | 2. | CATALOG DESCRIPTION |
| | Fast arithmetic circuits, design of high performance processors using pipelining and multiple functional units, multiprocessor |
| | design, interconnection networks, shared memory and message passing schemes. |
| | Quarters of Offering | Credits | | Level | Class Meeting |
| | Sp Qtr. | 3 | UG | 3 cl. |
| | Course Prerequisites |
| | Prereq: 662 or CS&E 675.01. |
| | 3. | PREREQUISITES BY TOPIC |
| | Design of computers including arithmetic and control units, input/output and memory systems. |
| | Courses that require this as a direct prerequisite |
| | None now, but plan to make this course be the prereq for ECE 864. |
| | 4. | Text(s) and Other Course Materials | Author(s) | Publisher |
| | Computer Organization, 5th ed. (MSH from ECE 662) | Hamacher, Vranesic, and | McGraw-Hill |
| | Zaky |
| | References (supplemental reading) |
| | [1] Computer Architecture and Organization, 3rd Ed., John P. Hayes, McGraw-Hill, 1997. |
| | [2] Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and |
| | Design), 3rd Ed., by John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson, Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers. |
| | 5. | COURSE OBJECTIVES |
| | 1. Students will learn about advanced computer design methods such as pipelining, and superscalar operation (Criterion |
| | 3(c)). |
| | 2. Students will learn to design fast arithmetic circuits, embedded systems and multiprocessors (Criterion 3(c)). |
| | 6. | TOPICS AND (# OF LECTURES) |
| | Computer arithmetic (6) |
| | Pipelining, superscalar operation (7) |
| | Embedded systems (2) |
| | Parallel processing (2) |
| | Multiprocessor design (7) |
| | Multicomputers (3) |
| | Reviews/exams (3) |
| | 7. | CLASS MEETING PATTERN | (For example, "3cl." means 3 48-min classes per week.) |
| | 3 cl. |
| | Thursday, August 14, 2008 09:18 AM |
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