ECE 232: Hardware Organization and Design

Professors Israel Koren and Mani Krishna

Office Hours:

Koren	Krishna
Wed. 1:30pm-2:30pm	Thurs. 11am-12 noon
Knowles Engineering Building, 309E	Knowles Engineering Building, 309K

Class: MWF 12:20 - 1:10PM, Engineering & CmpSci II (ELAB II): Room 119

Discussions: Prof. Koren and Krishna will hold the discussion sessions.

TA & Office Hours
Daniel Gomez-Prado	Kunal Ganeshpure	Nitin Prakash
dgomezpr@ecs.umass.edu	kganeshp@ecs.umass.edu	prakash@ecs.umass.edu
Wed. 4PM-6PM M5 (Marston)	Tues. 1:10-2:10PM Fri. 1:10-2:10PM M5 (Marston)	Mon. 3PM-4PM Thurs. 3PM-4PM M5 (Marston)

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; 4^th Edition, ISBN 978-0123744937

In the previous years revised 3rd edition (ISBN-10: 0-12-370606-8 ISBN-13: 978-0-12-370606-5) and the old 3rd edition from 2005 (ISBN-10: 1-55860-604-1 ISBN-13: 978-1-55860-604-3) were used. There have been some changes and the 4^th edition is recommended. 3^rd edition is useable. However, if you use 3^rd edition, it will be the student’s responsibility to know about the changes made in the 4^th edition.

UMass Calendar: http://www.umass.edu/registrar/gen_info/academic_calendar.htm - sp2011

Grading: Midterm 1 25% Date: Monday, March 7, 6-8pm
Midterm 2 25% Date: Thursday, April 14, 6-8pm
Finals 40% Date: Thursday, May 5, 10:30am-12:30pm
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.