Department of Computer Science Course: CS 3724

CS 3724 - Computer Organization

Evaluation:

There will be approximately six assignments, due following each of the major sections indicated in the outline. The final assignment will be due in the last two weeks of the semester.

Text:

None; see references.

Course outline:

• Introduction
  • A brief overview of the progress of digital technology
  • Measuring performance

• Instruction set architectures
  • introduction to the MIPS instruction set
  • addressing in the MIPS
  • relating architecture and instruction sets

• Assembly language programming
  • assemblers and linkers
  • procedure call conventions
  • the MIPS assembly language

• Logic Design
  • combinational logic and logic design
  • sequential logic, memory, and state machines

• Arithmetic elements and the datapath
  • numbers and their representation (integers and reals)
  • design of simple datapath elements and an ALU

• Designing a simple processor
  • a single cycle datapath implementation
  • a multi-cycle implementation
  • implementing the control unit
  • interrupts and exceptions

• Memory
  • The memory hierarchy
  • Cache memory
  • Virtual memory

References:

Computer Organization & Design The Hardware/Software Interface (Fifth Edition), by David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessey, Elseveir (2013)
ISBN 9780124077263

The Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture , by Linda Null and Luloa Lobour, third edition Jones and Bartlett (2012)
ISBN 1-4496-0006-8

Computer Organization and Architecture: Designing for Performance, 9/E , by W. Stallings, Prentice Hall (2012)
ISBN 978-0-13-293633-0

Structured Computer Organization, 6/E, by A. Tanenbaum and Todd Austin, Prentice Hall (2013)
ISBN 9780132916523