CPE 432 Computer Design Introduction Dr. Gheith Abandah

12/2/2015CPE 432, 1-Intro 2 Outline Course Information Textbook and References Course Outline Grading Policies Important Dates

12/2/2015CPE 432, 1-Intro 3 Course Information Instructor: Dr. Gheith Abandah Home page: Office: Computer Engineering 405 Prerequisites:CPE 335: Computer Organization Office hours –Mon 11: :00 –Tue 12:00 - 1:00 –Thu 10: :00

12/2/2015CPE 432, 1-Intro 4 Textbook and References Patterson and Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, 4th ed., Morgan Kaufmann, References: –Hennessy and Patterson. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 4th ed., Morgan Kaufmann, –D. Culler and J.P. Singh with A. Gupta. Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software Approach, Morgan Kaufmann, –J. Hayes. Computer Architecture and Organization, 3rd ed., McGraw-Hill, 1998.

12/2/2015CPE 432, 1-Intro 5 Course Outline Introduction Measuring and Summarizing Performance ( ) Advanced Instruction-Level Parallelism ( ) Memory Hierarchy ( ) Midterm Exam Storage and I/O ( ) Multicores, Multiprocessors, and Clusters ( ) Final Exam

12/2/2015CPE 432, 1-Intro 6 Grading Mid-Term Exam 30% 3 Homeworks and 2 Quizzes 20% 3 Homeworks and 2 Quizzes: 3 Marks for each homework, and 11 marks for the 2 quizzes. Final Exam 50%

Policies Attendance is required. All submitted work must be yours. Cheating will not be tolerated. Homeworks are due on exam or quiz dates. This course requires significant effort. 12/2/2015CPE 432, 1-Intro 7

Important Dates Sun 7 Feb 2010Classes Begin Sun 28 Feb 2010Homework 1 Announcement Sun 7 Mar 2010Quiz 1 and Homework 1 Due Sun 28 Mar 2010Homework 2 Announcement Sun 4 Apr 2010 Midterm Exam and Homework 2 Due Tentative Tue 27 Apr 2010Homework 3 Announcement Tue 4 May 2010Quiz 2 and Homework 3 Due Wed 19 May 2010Last Lecture Sun 23 May 2010 Final Exam (9:00-11:00) Tentative 12/2/2015CPE 432, 1-Intro 8