CPE 432 Computer Design

Introduction

Dr. Gheith Abandah

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Outline

• Course Information

• Textbook and References

• Course Outline

• Grading

• Policies

• Important Dates

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Course Information

• Instructor: Dr. Gheith Abandah

• Email: abandah@ju.edu.jo

• Home page: http://www.abandah.com/gheith

• Office: Computer Engineering 405

• Prerequisites: CPE 335: Computer Organization

• Office hours– Mon 11:00 - 12:00

– Tue 12:00 - 1:00

– Thu 10:00 - 11:00

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Textbook and References

• Patterson and Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, 4th ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 2009.

• References:– Hennessy and Patterson. Computer Architecture: A

Quantitative Approach, 4th ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 2007.

– D. Culler and J.P. Singh with A. Gupta. Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software Approach, Morgan Kaufmann, 1998.

– J. Hayes. Computer Architecture and Organization, 3rd ed., McGraw-Hill, 1998.

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Course Outline

• Introduction

• Measuring and Summarizing Performance (1.4-1.10)

• Advanced Instruction-Level Parallelism (4.10-4.15)

• Memory Hierarchy (5.1-5.13)

Midterm Exam

• Storage and I/O (6.1-6.14)

• Multicores, Multiprocessors, and Clusters (7.1-7.14)

• Final Exam

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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.

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Important Dates

Sun 7 Feb 2010 Classes Begin

Sun 28 Feb 2010 Homework 1 Announcement

Sun 7 Mar 2010 Quiz 1 and Homework 1 Due

Sun 28 Mar 2010 Homework 2 Announcement

Sun 4 Apr 2010Midterm Exam and Homework 2 Due

Tentative

Tue 27 Apr 2010 Homework 3 Announcement

Tue 4 May 2010 Quiz 2 and Homework 3 Due

Wed 19 May 2010 Last Lecture

Sun 23 May 2010Final Exam (9:00-11:00)

Tentative

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