cs470 - Spring 1997

Goal

To give students an unitary view of factors deciding what the architecture of a computer is. Design, Computer Organization and Assembly Language are presented in their complex interaction.

	Section 11	Section 12	Section 13
Instructor	Virgil Bistriceanu
Lecture	M 10:10 am - 11:50 am, SB-225
Lab	W 10:10-11:50 am	R 10:10-11:50 am	F 10:10-11:50 am
Lab room	SB-108
Office hours	M 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Office	SB-110
Phone	(312) 567-5146
Fax	(312) 567-5067
e-mail	virgil@csam.iit.edu
Teaching Assistant	Kuo-Pao Yang Office hours: T 4:30 - 5:30 pm in SB-112I W 9:00 - 10:00 am in SB-108 Phone: N/A email: `yangkuo@charlie.iit.edu`

Textbook

"Computer Organization & Design"

David Patterson, John Hennessy

Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc. 1994

ISBN 1-55860-281-X

Grading

Homeworks: 20%
Midterm: 20%
Final: 20%
Laboratory: 20%
Project: 20%

Everything you have to turn in is due at the beginning of the class the day the work is due. For late submittal there is a 10% per business day penalty. Penalties start from the moment the class the work is due starts.

Exams are open-book(s) open-notes.

A: 90 - 100
B: 80 - 89
C: 70 - 79
D: 60 - 69
E: 0 - 59

Failure to take a passing grade in either exams, project, lab or homeworks earns you a failing grade.

Class attendance and participation will help settle the borderline grades. Regular class attendance is important and students are expected to actively participate in class: questions and comments are always welcome.

Topics

Fundamentals of computer design. (2)
Basic organization of a von Neumann computer. (2)
Instruction set design. (5)
Addressing modes. (3)
CPU implementation. (6)
Interrupts. (3)
The memory hierarchy 1: general design principles. (1)
The memory hierarchy 2: the cache. (2)
The memory hierarchy 3: main memory. (2)
Virtual memory. (2)

Important events

Deadline for choosing the project partner: February 17
Midterm exam: March 10
Preliminary report on the project due: March 24
Last day for official withdrawal: April 4
Project due: April 28
Final exam: May 12

Varia

Unless otherwise stated all papers you turn in will be TYPED. No handwritten work is accepted. Each page will have a header as follows:

the left side: your name
middle: page number and the total number of pages (ex. 2/5 indicates this is page 2 out of a total of 5)
right hand side: name of the assignment (ex. Homework #2)

Each page will also have a footer:

the left hand side will contain the following text: cs470-<section>: Spring 1997 where <section> stands for the section you are in
the right hand side will contain the following text: Illinois Institute of Technology - CSAM

The header and the footer will be Arial, 10 points, regular. The text for the paper itself will be typed using Times Roman (12 points regular, except for titles which may be larger and bold).

Click here to see a template.