UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Computer Architecture (ECE568)       

• Outline:

  • I. Introduction
  • II. Performance Analysis (Ch.1 +)
  • III. Processor Design: Pipelining (App.A, Ch.2-3)
  • IV. Memory Design: Memory Hierarchy, Cache Memory, Secondary Memory (Ch.5)
  • V. Storage Systems and Input/Output (Ch.6)
  • VI. Vector Processors/ GPUs (new chapter)
  • VII. Power-Aware Computing

• Prerequisites: ECE 232 (Hardware Organization & Design) or an equivalent course.
• Recommended Textbook: D.A. Patterson and J.L. Hennessy, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 4th edition, Morgan-Kaufmann, 2007.
• Recommended reading:
  • J. P. Shen and M. Lipasti, Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors, McGraw-Hill, 2005.
    
  • M. J. Flynn, Computer Architecture: Pipelined and Parallel Processor Design, Jones and Bartlett, 1995.
    
  • V. P. Heuring and H. F. Jordan, Computer Systems Design and Architecture, Addison-Wesley, 1997.
    
  • K. Hwang, Advanced Computer Architecture: Parallelism, Scalability, Programmability, McGraw-Hill, 1993.
• Instructor: Prof. Israel Koren, KEB 309E, Tel. 545-2643
  Email: koren at ecs.umass.edu
• Office Hours: 4:00 - 5:00 PM, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
• Course web page: OWL assignments' due dates and other details regarding the course will be available at:
  www.ecs.umass.edu/ece/koren/ece568.
• Grading:
  • Midterm I - 25% - Mon. Oct. 17, 4:00-6:00pm
  • Midterm II - 25% - Mon. Nov. 21, 4-6pm
  • OWL quizzes - 15%
  • Final Exam. - 35%