1. COSC 3330/6308 Computer Architecture Jehan-François Pâris jparis@uh.edu

2. Administrative details (I) Instructor: Jehan-François Pâris E-mail:jparis AT uh DOT edu Office:569 PGH Phone:713-743-3341 (office hours) Office hours:MW 3:00-3:45 pm and 5:30-6:45 pm Web page: www.cs.uh.edu/~paris www.cs.uh.edu/~paris Email group: COSC_3330_fall_2012 Twitter: jehanfrancois (emergency)

3. Administrative details (II) TA: Xifeng Gao –Email:gxf.xisha AT gmail DOT com –Hours:Th 4:30-6:00 in PGH 309 TA: Salah Taamneh –Email:taamneh_07 AT hotmail DOT com –Hours:M 1- 2 pm and Tu 11am-12 noon in PGH 201

4. What we will cover Focus is on hardware, not software Will discuss –The various components of a computer CPU, memory, storage –How they are built Combinatorial circuits (have no memory) Sequential circuits

5. Textbook D. A. Patterson and J. L. Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design, Morgan Kaufmann,4th Edition, 2009. – Third edition remains helpful Authors are top experts in the field –Patterson: Berkeley RISC and RAID arrays –Hennessy: MIPS Very unusual

6. Course organization (I) Introduction : –Chapter 1 Principles of digital design: Boolean algebra, gates, combinatorial circuits, ALU, flip-flops, latches and registers, SRAM and DRAM, finite state machines –Appendix B

7. Course organization (II) Control units: combinational control units and finite state machine control –Appendix C Instruction set design: a brief overview –Chapter 2

8. Course organization (III) Computer arithmetic: addition and subtraction, multiplication, division, floating point operations –Chapter 3 The processor: data paths, pipelining, data and control hazards, parallelism –Chapter 4

9. Course organization (IV) The memory hierarchy: main memory, cache organization, cache consistency –Chapter 5 Storage subsystems: hard drives flash drives, RAID arrays, performance issues –Chapter 6

10. Course organization (V) Parallel architectures: multicore, multiprocessors, clusters, hardware multithreading –Chapter 7

11. Grading policy (I) Grade will be based on –Two midterms (20% each) –One final (40%) –Problem sets (20%) Ten percent penalty for late submissions

12. Grading policy (II) All tests will be closed book You will be responsible for all materials discussed in class –Not for the readings You will be allowed one 8.5"×11" page of notes for each test – One page means one side of a sheet!

13. Timetable First Midterm Monday, October 1 Second Midterm Monday, November 5 Final Friday, December 14 at 5:00 pm

14. Academic honesty No cheating or plagiarism will be tolerated in any graded assignment You cannot pass for your own anything you did not write The minimum penalty for any transgression will be an F grade for the course

16. You have been warned!

17. A word for the new students The American system of higher education favors those who work diligently through the semester –Final examinations tend to be much less critical than in many other countries –System offers no second chances