CPEG 323

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CPEG 323 Fall 2008

• Topics in Computer System Engineering Computer
  Organization and Design

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Admin. Information

• Instructor Prof. Guang R. Gao
• Office 312 DuPont Hall
• Phone [phone]
• email ggao_at_eecis.udel.edu
• Co-Instructor/Coordinators
• Joseph Manzano
• Office 306 DuPont Hall
• Phone [phone]
• Email jmanzano_at_capsl.udel.edu
• TA Thomas St. John
• Office DuPont Hall 326
• Phone [phone]
• Email stjohn_at_capsl.udel.edu

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Admin (Contd)

• Assistant Coordinator
• Elkin
• DuPont 334
• 831-3276
• egarcia_at_UDel.Edu

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Important Dates

• Oct. 22 (Wednesday) quiz 1 (tentative)
• Dec. 3rd (Wednesday) quiz 2 (tentative)
• Course work will carry the following weights
  towards your final grade
• Homework, Lab and Class Participation 10
• Quizzes 70
• Project 20

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Reference Books

• John Hennessy and David Patterson
• Computer Organization and Design
• 3rd Edition/revised
• Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc.
• 2004/2007
• 2. Other reference books/papers to be announced

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About the Reference Book

• A table to show SW/HW paths for the book
• A Green Card
• Understanding program performance
• Real Stuff
• Computers in the Real World
• A smaller book a CD

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Bibliography
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Bibliography

• Journals
• IEEE Computer
• Transactions on Computers
• Transactions on Parallel and Distributed
  Systems

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Bibliography

• Conference Proceedings
• PACT Parallel Architectures and Compilation
  Techniques
• MICRO ACM/IEEE Symposium on Microarchitect
  ures
• ISCA ACM/IEEE International Symposium on
  Computer Architecture

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What is this Course About?

• This course is about the structure and design of
  digital computers. This is commonly called
  computer architecture which is instruction
  set architecture hardware organization.

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Why Study Computer Organization?

• Not many of you will work for Intel or AMD, BUT
• - Embedded systems
• - Compiler design
• - Even software developers!

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Roadmap for the Semester

• - General overview
• - Performance
• - Instruction sets
• - Computer arithmetic
• - Single-cycle machines
• - Pipelining
• - Memory systems (RAM, caches, virtual memory)
• - I/O processing
• - ILP, Multi-Core chips
• - Other topics

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ABET Outcomes

• Ability to apply knowledge of science (e.g.,
  computer architecture and system organization,
  and related computer science issues), and
  engineering (e.g., performance analysis and
  benchmarking, ISA simulation and verification)
• Ability to use the techniques, skills and modern
  engineering tools necessary for engineering
  practice
• Knowledge of related topics in computer science
  discipline