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CPE 432 Computer Design Introduction. Dr. Gheith Abandah. Outline. Course Information Textbook and References Course Outline Grading Policies Important Dates. Course Information. Instructor: Dr. Gheith Abandah Email: abandah@ju.edu.jo Home page: http://www.abandah.com/gheith
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CPE 432 Computer Design Introduction Dr. Gheith Abandah
Outline • Course Information • Textbook and References • Course Outline • Grading • Policies • Important Dates CPE 432, 1-Intro
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 CPE 432, 1-Intro
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. CPE 432, 1-Intro
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 CPE 432, 1-Intro
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% CPE 432, 1-Intro
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. CPE 432, 1-Intro
Important Dates CPE 432, 1-Intro