Office Hours: Tuesday, 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Knowles Engineering Building, 309J
(413) 577-3309
Class: TuTh 11:15AM - 12:30PM, Engineering & CmpSci
II: Room 119
Discussions: Prof. Ram Mettu will hold
the discussion sessions.
Prof. Mettu’s
Office Hours: Wednesday 2:30-4:30 PM, Knowles Engineering Building,
211D
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TA & Office Hours |
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Daniel Gomez-Prado |
Aswin Sreedhar |
Alodeep Sanyal |
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Monday 2:30PM-3:30PM Thursday 2:30PM-3:30PM Marcus 214 |
Monday 11:00AM-12:00PM Wed 11:00AM-12:00PM KEB 314 |
Friday
2:00PM-4:00PM
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Course Description: An
introduction to computer architecture and hardware design. Computer
abstractions and technology, performance evaluation, instruction set
architectures, computer arithmetic, pipelining, memory systems, interfacing. Hardware description languages, machine languages and assembly
languages.
Textbook: Computer Organization and
Design, The Hardware/Software Interface by David A. Patterson and John L.
Hennessy, Morgan Kaufmann; revised 3rd edition, 2007, ISBN-10: 0-12-370606-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-370606-5.
The old 3rd edition from 2005 ISBN-10: 1-55860-604-1 ISBN-13: 978-1-55860-604-3
contains some errors.
UMass Calendar: http://www.umass.edu/registrar/gen_info/academic_calendar.htm#spring08
Grading: Midterm 1 25%
Midterm 2 25%
Finals 40%
Homework 10%
Homework Policy: Only one homework
per group should be handed in. Homework assignments will be posted on the web.
Solutions will be returned during discussions.