COE 501 - Fall 2014 |
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Office: Building 22, Room 328, Phone: 4642 Syllabus | Lectures | Assignments | Tools and Manuals Announcements Project Presentation: Thursday, Dec. 25, at 1 PM, Room 22/119 Final Exam: Wednesday, December 31, at 7 PM, Room 22/132 Midterm Exam: Thursday, November 13, at 6 PM, Room 22/119 Gem5 Tutorial: Tuesday, Oct 28, at 1 PM, Lab 22/129
Assistant Ayman Hroub, Email: ahroub@gmail.com Questions related to assignments and grading should be directed to the teaching assistant Catalog Description Computer architecture fundamentals, trends, and performance. Hardware and software approaches to ILP, dynamic speculative, VLIW, and superscalar execution models. Examples and case studies. Dynamic branch prediction techniques. Memory hierarchy, cache and virtual memory, cache coherence, memory system performance. Parallel architecture models, coherence protocols, and interconnection networks. Students are expected to carry out a research project. Prerequisite: Graduate Standing. Textbook Computer Architecture, A Quantitative Approach, 5th Edition, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2012. Course Modules and Topics
Academic Honesty View important information on academic honesty Grading Components Problem Sets : 15% Assignments / Project : 35% Midterm Exam : 25% Final Exam : 25%
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Last Updated: Wednesday December 24, 2014, by Dr. Muhamed Mudawar |