CE 110: Computer Architecture

Winter 1996


Instructor Craig M. Wittenbrink

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Syllabus (Updated: Version of 1/8/96)

Instructor: Craig M. Wittenbrink Office: Applied Science Bldg. #309 Phone: (408) 459 4099 craig@cse.ucsc.edu

Class hours: 3:30 - 4:40 pm Monday, Wednesday, Friday in Porter 144.

Office hours: 2:00 pm -3:00 pm Monday and Thursday; 5:00-6:00 pm, Wed. in AS 309.

Section: Wed: 6:30-7:40 pm Earth and Marine Sciences, B214.

TA: Andrew Macginitie Office: Trailer 12, room B Phone: agm@cse.ucsc.edu

Prerequisites: Computer Organization, CE 12C.

Text: Computer Organization & Design: The Hardware Software Interface. David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy, Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, CA, 1994.

 Week [1] of Jan 3, 5:      Intro and Performance terms, (Ch. 1 & Ch. 2.) HW #1

 Week [2] of Jan 8, 10, 12: Instruction Set Design (Ch. 3p) HW #2

 Week [3] of Jan 17, 19:    Computer Arithmetic (Ch. 4p) HW #3

 Week [4] of Jan 22, 24, 26: Digital Logic Review, The Processor Datapath
and Control (Appendix B, Chap 5) HW #4

 Week [5] of Jan 29, 31, Feb 2: Building Control and High Performance
(Appendix C, Ch. 6) Test 1.

 Week [6] of Feb 5, 7, 9:   High Performance (Ch. 6) HW 5, HW #6

 Week [7] of Feb 12, 14, 16: Completing the System (Ch. 7p, & Ch. 8p) HW #7

 Week [8] of Feb 20, 21, 23: Intro to Parallelism (Ch. 9) HW #8
 Week [9] of Feb 26, 28, Mar 1: Parallelism, Instruction Level (Ch. 9,
Handouts) HW #9

 Week [10] of Mar 4, 6, 8:  Parallelism, Processor Level (Ch. 9, Handouts)
HW #10

 Week [11] of Mar 11:       Review for Final Exam


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